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Representatives of the Islamic community of the country yesterday demanded punishment of Jamaat Ameer Matiur Rahman Nizami for war crimes he committed during the Liberation War.
The demand came at a meeting between a delegation of Islamic leaders and the Sector Commanders Forum (SCF) at the SCF office […]
Entries Tagged as 'History'
Islamic leaders seek Nizami’s punishment for war crimes
June 8th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: 1971 · Corruption · Dhaka · History
Plea against ‘war criminals’
May 17th, 2008 · No Comments
compiled by : Habib
Published: Tuesday, 13 May, 2008, 05:25 AM Doha Time
Our Correspondent
DHAKA: The election commission (EC) has rejected a plea of 1971 liberation war commanders to bar ‘war criminals’ from contesting the ensuing parliamentary polls.
Chief election commissioner A T M Shamsul Huda said that data against ‘war criminals’ and anti-liberation forces […]
Tags: 1971 · Corruption · History
EC to collect records of war criminals’ trial
May 17th, 2008 · No Comments
Comiled By Habib
Staff Correspondent
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) ATM Shamsul Huda yesterday said the commission will collect records of war criminals’ trials under the now defunct collaborators act, in a bid to permanently disqualify war criminals from contesting in any election.
Between 1972 and 1975, 752 persons were convicted of war crimes […]
Tags: 1971 · Corruption · Dhaka · History
EC to collect records of war criminals’ trial
May 14th, 2008 · No Comments
compiled by : Habib
Staff Correspondent
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) ATM Shamsul Huda yesterday said the commission will collect records of war criminals’ trials under the now defunct collaborators act, in a bid to permanently disqualify war criminals from contesting in any election.
Between 1972 and 1975, 752 persons were convicted of war crimes and the government […]
Tags: 1971 · Corruption · Dhaka · History · Thoughts
War criminals of 1971: Time to take action
March 20th, 2008 · No Comments
Compiled By : Habib
Dr. Abdul Momen
IT is highly misleading propaganda that Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s government pardoned all the war criminals. The facts show otherwise. In fact, Bangabandhu’s government started prosecuting the perpetrators of crimes against humanity or war criminals immediately after independence, and he also passed the Collaborators Act (1972) and the International Crime […]
Tags: 1971 · Corruption · Dhaka · History
Trial of war criminals
March 10th, 2008 · No Comments
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By The Numbers
Trial of war criminals
A.N.M. Nurul Haque
A sort of national consensus has developed recently for bringing the war criminals of the liberation war to justice. The Election Commission (EC), responding to the demand of the political parties, has announced that it will recommend to the caretaker government (CTG) to initiate steps […]
Tags: 1971 · Dhaka · History · Humanity
Bangladeshi calls for war-crimes justice
February 22nd, 2008 · No Comments
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MERLE ENGLISH
February 10, 2008
Mina Farah remembers fleeing into the hills of northern India with her family and other refugees as thousands of their compatriots were killed.
It was 1971, when the people of East Pakistan - then a province of Pakistan - were engulfed in a nine-month war for independence. The result of […]
Jamaat: the enemy within
November 17th, 2007 · No Comments
The last of Enayetullah Khan’s full essays was printed in three instalments in New Age on September 23, September 30 and October 7, 2005. The collated essay is reprinted here
The poisonous weed of Jamaat-e-Islami is now threatening to strangle the very vitals of the government’s banyan tree and getting increasingly bolder with its theocratic and […]
Tags: 1971 · Corruption · History · Terrorism
Revisiting the Wounds of Liberation
November 16th, 2007 · No Comments
Aasha Mehreen Amin, Srabonti Narmeen Ali, Hana Shams Ahmed and Elita Karim
The latest demand for the war criminals of our Liberation War by the people of Bangladesh to be tried and punished is evidence of the trauma and pent up outrage that the nation has been bottling up for the last 36 years over […]
Mukto-Mona’s online Archive of 1971 Liberation War
November 15th, 2007 · No Comments
Dear Friends,
Lately Mukto-Mona has taken initiatives to create a comprehensive online archive (English and Bangla) of the 1971 liberation war and genocide. Following link would take you to what has resulted in our effort so far. This archive, amongst other things, provides links to some of the rare & interesting documents, articles & interviews pertaining […]

