ICSF seeks global recognition of March 25 as Genocide Day
With an aim to seek international support for global recognition of the 1971 genocide in Bangladesh, a four-member team of the International Crimes Strategy Forum (ICSF) has presented papers on Bangladesh at the University of Warwick in the UK this week.
The exclusive panel at the Critical Legal Conference was titled "Anatomising a Forgotten Catastrophe - Bangladesh’s Historic Struggle for National Liberation in 1971".
Chaired by the organisation’s Founder and Trustee Rayhan Rashid, the other panel members included ICSF Trustee M Sanjeeb Hossain, and members Barrister Shah Ali Farhad, Muhsina Farhat and Bahzad Joarder.
The ICSF is an independent global network of academics, experts, and activists working in the interest of justice for the victims of international crimes.
For the first time this year, Bangladesh nationally observed March 25 as “Genocide Day” commemorating those killed by the Pakistani occupation forces on that night in 1971.
Earlier last month, at the 13th meeting of the International Association of Genocide Scholars in Brisbane, Australia held on July 9-13, an ICSF panel comprising M Sanjeeb Hossain and Rayhan Rashid presented two papers relating to the understanding and recognition of genocide in the context of Bangladesh.
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