Join us in a special screening of “Rising Silence”, a documentary on genocidal rapes of 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War Screening: 16 – 18 April 2021 REGISTRATION REQUIRED FOR VIEWING PASSWORD: CLICK HERE “Rising Silence” documents the lives of Bangladeshi women who, among thousands of others, suffered brutal sexual violence half a century ago, during the…
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International Crimes Strategy Forum (ICSF) welcomes the London Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict (London, 10-12 June 2014) which is no doubt a laudable and timely initiative. We are, nevertheless, surprised by the fact that the stories of the sexual violence committed against Bengali girls and women during the Liberation War of Bangladesh…
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Our questions to the organizers are unambiguous and simple: Were the stories of sufferings of countless Bengali girls and women during 1971 not worth telling at the global summit? Don’t the Bengali victims of sexual violence deserve to be recognised and rehabilitated by the world community? When it comes to acknowledging immeasurable crimes committed four decades ago, of all things, time is not on our side.…
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