Tag Archives: Genocide

Distances

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 →

by Shahidul Alam Posted on March 25, 2008
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Bangladesh 1971

Subscribe to ShahidulNews They had risked all to hold on to this moment in history. The scarred negatives, hidden from the military, wrapped in old cloth, buried underground, also bore the wounds of war. These photographers were the only soldiers … Continue reading →

by Shahidul Alam Posted on February 22, 2008
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Remembering

Recovering Memory. Recovering Dignity It was 25th March, night. A Pakistani officer accompanied by soldiers entered their Dhaka University flat, dragged out Meghna’s father and and shot him. Jyotirmoy Guhathakurta was a well-known academic. He bled to death slowly, five … Continue reading →

by Shahidul Alam Posted on January 2, 2008
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1971 as I saw it

Thirty five year ago, even longer perhaps, just a camera in hand, they had gone out to bring back a fragment of living history. Today, those photographs join them in protest. Peering through the crisp pages of the newly printed … Continue reading →

by Shahidul Alam Posted on March 26, 2007
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The Month of Victory

14th December 1971. The stark dismembered face stared from the bricks in the Rayerbazar graveyard. It was a last ditch attempt by an occupation army to leave a nation they had been unable to subdue, crippled intellectually and culturally. Rashid … Continue reading →

by Shahidul Alam Posted on December 14, 2006
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From Seventh Fleet to Seventh Cavalry

25th March 1971. My eldest niece had just been born the day before. It was a premature birth. Amma had found a Mariam flower and the flower had bloomed, heralding the birth. She had stayed behind at the clinic. We … Continue reading →

by Shahidul Alam Posted on March 26, 2003
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We Did Say No

Subscribe to ShahidulNews My questions are many. Why is there no UN resolution against the United States, for blatantly initiating an unprovoked genocide? Whydoes not the UN Security Council, demand that the most habitual aggressor in recent history, disarm and … Continue reading →

by Shahidul Alam Posted on March 17, 2003
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The War We Forgot

Subscribe to ShahidulNews Iqbal had asked me when we first met. “Bhaiya, where are Barkat and Salaam’s graves?” I didn’t know. He was 10, I was 39. As a 15 year old in 1971, I had felt the warm flush … Continue reading →

by Shahidul Alam Posted on November 3, 2000
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