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Bangladesh war: The article that changed history

by Shahidul Alam Posted on December 16, 2011

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 →

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Subcontinental drift

by Shahidul Alam Posted on August 10, 2011

Subscribe to ShahidulNews By Salil Tripathi Does the controversial book about Bangladesh’s war of liberation uncover new truths, or simply reverse old biases? It is an article of faith in Bangladesh that three million people died in its war of … Continue reading →

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INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY AND THE FREEDOM FLOTILLA MASSACRE

by Shahidul Alam Posted on June 1, 2010

Subscribe to ShahidulNews Editorial, The Electronic Intifada, 31 May 2010 Early this morning under the cover of darkness Israeli soldiers stormed the lead ship of the six-vessel Freedom Flotilla aid convoy in international waters and killed and injured dozens of civilians aboard. All … Continue reading →

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Israeli troops kill flotilla activists

by Shahidul Alam Posted on May 31, 2010

Subscribe to ShahidulNews At least 16 dead as Israeli troops storm Gaza aid flotilla Israeli commandoes have stormed a flotilla of ships carrying activists and aid supplies to the blockaded Palestinian enclave of Gaza, killing as many as as 16 … Continue reading →

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AN OPEN LETTER TO MR. JACOB ZUMA

by Shahidul Alam Posted on May 26, 2010

Subscribe to ShahidulNews HAIDAR EID – AN OPEN LETTER TO MR. JACOB ZUMA, PRESIDENT OF SOUTH AFRICA 10 September, 2009 — Palestine Chronicle Dear Mr. President, I am writing to express my dismay and disappointment with both your attendance at the … Continue reading →

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What Matters

by Shahidul Alam Posted on September 28, 2008

Subscribe to ShahidulNews The World’s Preeminent Photojournalists and Thinkers Depict Essential Issues of Our Time Sterling. 2008. 335p. ed. by David Elliot Cohen. photogs. index. ISBN 978-1-4027-5834-8. $27.95. POL SCI PHOTOGRAPHY EXPOSES TRUTHS, advances the public discourse, and demands action. … Continue reading →

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Jamaat’s farce unravels

by Shahidul Alam Posted on July 21, 2008

Subscribe to ShahidulNews By Rahnuma Ahmed A national convention of freedom fighters organised by supporters and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its students’ wing Islami Chhatra Shibir. An outright appropriation. The only problem is, Mohammad Ali saw through it. A single … Continue reading →

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The War That Time Forgot

by Shahidul Alam Posted on April 10, 2008

Subscribe to ShahidulNews The Bangladesh war was one of the 20th century’s bloodiest, yet outside the region, little is known about it. Now, 37 years on, an exhibition records the painful birth of a nation. Tahmima Anam report Victorious Muktis … Continue reading →

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Re-visiting

by Shahidul Alam Posted on March 30, 2008

Subscribe to ShahidulNews Rahnuma Ahmed Thirtyfive years later “Thirtyfive years? You will be meeting her after thirtyfive years?” No contact in between? Well, I would reply, we escaped from Pakistan in 1972. There were no official contacts between the two … Continue reading →

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Distances

by Shahidul Alam Posted on March 25, 2008

Subscribe to ShahidulNews Rahnuma Ahmed WHENEVER I approach her, I feel numb. I feel speechless. I want to know who she is. But I don’t know who to ask. How to ask. This photograph has always haunted me. I don’t … Continue reading →

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