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Marines Urinating on Dead Taliban: How Low Will We Go?

by Shahidul Alam Posted on January 14, 2012

By Ethan Casey Huffington Post Posted: 1/13/12 11:45 AM ET I haven’t fully digested the disgusting news that U.S. Marines have been caught on video urinating on dead Taliban fighters in Afghanistan, so this post is not offered as a coherent … 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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But what about US war crimes, Mr Ambassador-at-large?

by Shahidul Alam Posted on January 31, 2011

Subscribe to ShahidulNews By Rahnuma Ahmed Because of its power and global interests U.S. leaders have committed crimes as a matter of course and structural necessity. A strict application of international law would … have given every U.S. president of … Continue reading →

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For the government, by the government

by Shahidul Alam Posted on March 25, 2009

My assistant Irfan just informed me that my permanent accreditation as a journalist was not being given, as I had asked awkward questions to the adviser during the Musee Guimet affair, The assumption that a journalist’s job is to ask … Continue reading →

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Complicity in slaughter. Gaza

by Shahidul Alam Posted on January 18, 2009

by Rahnuma Ahmed I feel like I’m witnessing the systematic destruction of a people’s ability to survive. It’s horrifying. – Rachel Corrie (1979-2003), a 23 year old American member of the International Solidarity Movement, killed by an Israeli Defence Forces … Continue reading →

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Is your liberation, also mine?

by Shahidul Alam Posted on December 16, 2008

Rahnuma Ahmed “If you have come to help me you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together” – Lisa Watson, aboriginal activist 1971 ‘No, I … 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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Ghosts

by Shahidul Alam Posted on June 17, 2008

Subscribe to ShahidulNews By Ian Buruma Volume 55, Number 11 · June 26, 2008 The New York Review of Books Two photographs, taken by digital camera at Abu Ghraib prison, on the night of November 5, 2003. The first picture … Continue reading →

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Family secrets, state secrets

by Shahidul Alam Posted on May 27, 2008

Subscribe to ShahidulNews Rahnuma Ahmed History is never more compelling than when it gives us insights into oneself and the ways in which one’s own experience is constituted. Amitav Ghosh, in a letter to Dipesh Chakrabarty I do not see … Continue reading →

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The War We Forgot

by Shahidul Alam Posted on November 3, 2000

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 →

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