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REFLECTIONS / Baby killed/baby found dead: On the use and abuse of language
To the politicians and their vetoes and dismissals of any proposals that might bring some change—what language do you use with them? What of their language that otherises an entire people to dehumanise them?
POETRY / Macabre Bleats
wounded limbs heal faster, / than a wounded conscience
What’s holding the world back from recognising the 1971 genocide?
The 1971 genocide in Bangladesh is also called the “forgotten genocide”
Bangladesh Genocide of 1971: Time for the West to walk the talk
The genocide that Pakistan’s occupational forces committed in Bangladesh in 1971 has yet to get due recognition.
Shankhari Bazar carnage ‘71: Death knocked on their doors at sundown
Shankhari Bazar is a neighbourhood in the old part of Dhaka, largely inhabited by the Hindus.
Why hasn’t the UN recognised the 1971 Bangladesh Genocide yet?
UN recognition of the 1971 East Pakistan genocide is not only important for the global body to regain its credibility and effectiveness, but also to expose a military institution which is seen as of strategic value to the West.
Are the Rohingyas doomed to a half life?
Int'l community must put their money where their mouth is
Mapping genocide in Khulna
War leaves its traces everywhere, be it in the form of memories or mass graves.
UN has 'no right to interfere'
Myanmar's powerful army chief says the United Nations has no right to interfere in his country's sovereignty, a week after UN investigators called for him and other top generals to be prosecuted for "genocide" against the Rohingya.
UN mulls sending international war crimes probe to Gaza
The United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council to meet Friday for deciding whether to send international war crimes investigators to probe the deadly shootings of Gaza protesters by Israeli forces.
UN plans to amass evidence on genocide on Rohingyas
United Nations Special Adviser on Genocide Prevention Adama Dieng says the UN planned to amass evidence of genocide on Rohingyas through a judicial investigation.
US Holocaust museum rescinds award to Myanmar's Suu Kyi
The US Holocaust Memorial Museum has rescinded its top award to Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi because of her failure to condemn and stop military attacks on her country's minority Rohingya Muslims, the museum says.
Call it genocide
The UN calls the Myanmar army's aggression against the Rohingya “ethnic cleansing”. “Ethnic cleansing” is a term invented by Slobodan Milosevic. It's a euphemism for forced displacement and genocide. It's an insidious term because there is no international treaty law against it, whereas there are international laws against forced displacement and genocide.
Bangladesh forms citizen body to probe genocide in Myanmar
Eminent individuals form a citizen body to investigate genocide in Myanmar’s Rakhine that has led to exodus of over 520,000 Rohingya refugees.
German MPs recognise Armenian 'genocide' amid Turkish fury
The German parliament approves a resolution declaring that the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks during World War One was a "genocide".
Turkish envoy leaves Dhaka amid reports of withdrawal
Turkish envoy to Bangladesh leaves Dhaka amid media reports that he has been withdrawn in response to the execution of top war criminal Motiur Rahman Nizami.
ICT indicts 2 Kishoreganj men
A tribunal in Dhaka frames six charges against two persons of Kishoreganj for their alleged involvement in crimes against humanity during the country’s Liberation War in 1971.
War crimes: Charges accepted against 2 Mymensingh men
A war crimes tribunal accepts charges against two Mymensingh men for their alleged involvement in genocide and crimes against humanity during 1971 war.
Karadzic jailed for Bosnian Srebrenica genocide
Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has been convicted of genocide and war crimes over the 1992-95 war, and sentenced to 40 years in jail.
