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1971 is dividing Bangladesh again and there's nothing India can do
The International Crimes Tribunal has sentenced Jamaat-e-Islami leader Muhammad Kamaruzzaman to death for his role in mass killings during the Liberation War. India ended Kamaruzzaman�s savageries�but now, caught between geostrategic imperatives and local politics, is impaled on the fence #World #India #Pakistan #Bangladesh #ConnectTheDots #Shahbag #1971 war of independence #East Pakistan #Jamaat #Shahbag bloggers
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Bloodthirsty non-violence: The paradox of Shahbag protests
Shahbag marks the appropriation of non-violence as a strategy to achieve a violent goal: death for Bangladeshi war crimes. #ConnectTheDots #Jamaat-e-Islami #Bangladesh Protests #Shahbag Protests
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Next-door lessons: What India can learn from the protesters of Shahbag
India should be paying attention to Shahbag Square because this is about more than a Bangladesh war crimes trial. There is a conversation about politics and religion that is happening there which matters to all of us. #Bangladesh #ConnectTheDots #Sheikh Hasina #Bangladesh war crimes tribunal #Shahbag
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The IndependentBangladesh protests: 15 die in clashes as Islamic conservatives battle with police over implementation of anti-blasphemy law
At least 15 people have been killed in clashes in Bangladesh between the police and Islamic conservatives who want the country to establish an anti-blasphemy law that carries the death penalty. Clashes broke out between many thousands of members of the H #Bangladesh #Sheikh Hasina #Pakistan
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Global Voices OnlineIslamists Demand that Bangladesh's Women Stay at Home
Members of Hifazat-e Islam, a radical Islamist party in Bangladesh, attacked female journalists on assignment as the group marched in the country's capital to demand strict Islamic law, including a ban on free mixing of the sexes and punishment of “athei #Bangladesh #Taliban #Afghanistan
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Christian Science MonitorBangladesh united in grief over a failed rescue from collapsed factory
She was the last person located and known to still be alive inside a garment factory building that collapsed last week in Bangladesh. But before rescuers could save Shahinur, who went by only one name, a fire broke out in the rubble today and the woman w #Bangladesh #India