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American Activists and the Birth of Bangladesh
Subscribe to ShahidulNews Podcast Play in New Window | Download Forty years ago this month, the country of Bangladesh declared its independence from Pakistan. Then-President Richard Nixon supported Pakistan during the war because he wanted to prove the US would stand … Continue reading
Posted in 1971, Bangladesh, Colonialism, culture, Democracy, Education, Elections, Genocide, Governance, Human rights, Imperialism, Killings, Law, media, Migration, Occupation, politics, Resistance, South Asia, USA
Tagged 1971, china, India, Pakistan, People, War, War of Liberation
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Taking Beitar to task: Mohammed Ghadir
Subscribe to ShahidulNews Striker Mohammed Ghadir puts Israeli anti-racism to the test By James M. Dorsey Maccabi Haifa striker Mohammed Ghadir believes that he and Beitar Jerusalem, the bad boy of Israeli soccer, are a perfect match. “I am well … Continue reading
Posted in Colonialism, Democracy, Elections, Global Issues, Governance, Human rights, Imperialism, Islam, Law, Occupation, politics
Tagged apartheid, Arab, Football, Israel, Palestine, politics, racism, sports
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Bangladesh war: The article that changed history
By Mark Dummett BBC News On 13 June 1971, an article in the UK’s Sunday Times exposed the brutality of Pakistan’s suppression of the Bangladeshi uprising. It forced the reporter’s family into hiding and changed history. Abdul Bari had run … Continue reading
Posted in 1971, Bangladesh, Colonialism, culture, Democracy, Elections, exploitation, Genocide, Governance, Human rights, Imperialism, Killings, Major Features on Bangladesh, media, Media issues, Military, Photography, Photojournalism, politics, Resistance, South Asia
Tagged 1971, Bangladesh, Genocide, Independence, India, Pakistan, politics, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, War of Liberation, Yahya Khan, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto
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Sense of humour failure
Subscribe to ShahidulNews Censorship in Pakistan Economist Nov 25th 2011, 13:04 by L.M. AN OFTEN overlooked perk of being a country with a large population and relatively low wages is the capacity to employ people to carry out silly … Continue reading
Posted in Capitalism, Corruption, culture, Elections, Governance, Humour, Media issues, politics
Tagged censorship, citizen media, corruption, economist, mobile phone, Pakistan, politicians, sms, Zardari
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Dead men tell no tales
Subscribe to ShahidulNews By Vijay Prashad 21 October 2011 — The Greanville Post – Qaddafi, From Beginning to End NATO’s Agenda for Libya On the dusty reaches out of Sirte, a convoy flees a battlefield. A NATO aircraft fires and strikes the … Continue reading
Posted in Capitalism, Colonialism, Democracy, Elections, Genocide, Global Issues, Governance, Human rights, Imperialism, Killings, Law, Media issues, Oil, politics, security, Terrorism, World
Tagged Extra Judicial Killings, Gaddafi, Libya, Military, NATO, Oil, Qaddafi
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`State within the state.’ Militarisation, and the women’s movement
Subscribe to ShahidulNews by rahnuma ahmed `A state within the state is now ruling the country.‘ Recently uttered by Dr Mizanur Rahman, National Human Rights Commission chair, these words, ominous as they sound, are of immense concern to the nation’s … Continue reading
Posted in Bangladesh, Crossfire, Elections, Global Issues, Governance, Human rights, Media issues, Terrorism
Tagged Bidisha wife of Ershad torture, CHT women sexual violence, Crossfire Human Rights Watch, Frantz Fanon Algeria police torture, Human Rights Awami League government, Law and order Bangladesh, RAB alleged rape, Rapid Action Battalion Bangladesh, Torture Bangladesh
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The gift of a `death squad’
Subscribe to ShahidulNews by rahnuma ahmed A `death squad’ was the BNP-Jamaat government’s gift to the nation, a gift that has been nurtured and defended by two successive governments, each claiming to be vastly different to the previous one. Claiming … Continue reading
Posted in Bangladesh, Crossfire, Elections, Global Issues, Governance, Human rights, Media issues, Terrorism
Tagged Crossfire Human Rights Watch, Human Rights Awami League government, Human Rights BNP-Jamaat government, Human Rights caretaker government, Law and order Bangladesh, Rapid Action Battalion Bangladesh, Torture Bangladesh
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LIMON HOSSAIN: Shattered dreams, ruthlessness, and the govt’s spinning factory
By rahnuma ahmed The problem with Limon — from RAB’s point of view — is that he has lived to tell the tale. Usually, RAB’s victims don’t. Take Rasal Ahmed Bhutto, for instance. A 34-year old shopkeeper, he was picked … Continue reading
Posted in Bangladesh, Elections, Global Issues, Governance, Human rights, Media issues, Terrorism
Tagged Ain o Salish Kendra Limon Bangladesh, Amputated leg Limon Bangladesh, Awami League-led rule, Human Rights Watch Bangladesh, Law and order Bangladesh, Odhikar human rights Bangladesh, Rapid Action Battalion Bangladesh, Torture Bangladesh
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PART I THE END OF AUTHORITARIANISM IN THE ARAB WORLD?
Subscribe to ShahidulNews `Go, Mubarak go!’ USA’s tottering user-friendly tyrants… By Rahnuma Ahmed Having grown up amidst popular uprisings, such as the Civil Disobedience movement in 1969, and much later, having participated in mass uprisings, foremost among them, the one … Continue reading
Posted in Capitalism, Colonialism, economy, Elections, exploitation, Global Issues, Governance, Human rights, Imperialism, Islam, politics, Rahnuma Ahmed, security
Tagged dictatorship, Egypt, Israel, Military, Mubarak, people's revolt, resistance, state repression, tyrrany, USA
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