By Simon Denyer in The Washington Post, Sept 14, 2017 at 5.27 pm China’s organ-transplant system was once a cause of international scorn and outrage, as doctors harvested organs from prisoners condemned to death by criminal courts and transplanted them into patients who often paid dearly for the privilege. After years of denials, China now acknowledges that history and has declared that the practice no longer occurs — largely thanks to the perseverance of a…
Posts published in September 2017
by Nectar Gan in South China Morning Post, Sept 14, 2017 at 10:41pm China’s far western Xinjiang is set to roll out an ideological campaign to instill the official Communist Party narrative of the region’s history in its officials, religious leaders and the masses. Yu Zhengsheng, the party’s fourth-ranking official who is in charge of religion and ethnic minorities, presided at a high-level meeting in Beijing this week to address “several historical issues” regarding the…
report in Global Times, Sept 15, 2017 Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region will develop better if it rids itself of misleading historical, cultural, ethnic and religious thoughts, China’s top political adviser said at a seminar. Clearing out those negative thoughts will build the ideological and political basis for a legal and united Xinjiang, Yu Zhengsheng, chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference National Committee said at a two-day meeting on Xinjiang, which concluded on Wednesday…
by Pallab Bhattacharya in The Daily Star, Sept 15, 2017 Three Bangladeshi brothers, suspected to have links with militant group Ansarullah Bangla Team, have been arrested by the Anti-Terrorist Squad of India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh, a senior police official said yesterday. The trio — identified as Mohammad Imran, Rajiuddin and Mohammad Firdaus — were arrested in Lucknow, the state’s capital city, when they were about to board Howrah-Amritsar Express train on Wednesday afternoon,…
By James Hookway in the Wall St Journal, Sept 13, 2017 at 5.41pm ET YANGON, Myanmar—Myanmar’s government calls the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army “extremist militant terrorists.” The group, known as ARSA, and its founder, Ata Ullah, say it is defending Muslim Rohingya, highlighting decades of repression they have endured in Buddhist-majority Myanmar, where most live along the border with Bangladesh. The conflict is drawing the attention of foreign extremists. Al Qaeda’s central leadership urged Muslims…
Report in bdnews24.com, Sept 15, 2017 Benapole: Police have detained three people on charges of forcing a Buddhist monk to speak over the Rohingya issue, recording his statement and circulating the video on social media at Benapole border in Jessore. The three detainees are Reazul Islam Mandal, Amin Hossain and Toufique Ahmed. Benapole Police Station Sub-Inspector Sharif Habibur Rahman said the trio stopped the Buddhist monk on his way home to Chittagong from India on…
By Yang Sheng in Global Times, Sept 14, 2017 Two senior officers of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) have been given new appointments ahead of the 19th National Congress of Communist Party of China (CPC), the fifth major personnel change within the CPC Central Military Commission in 2017. According to the PLA Daily, the flagship newspaper of China’s military, Song Puxuan, the former commander of the Northern Theater Command, was appointed as the new head…
report in bdnews24.com, Sept 13, 2017 at 21:37:04.0 BdST Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said her government is investigating BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s offshore assets. She spoke about the issue on being asked by Jatiya Party MP Fakhrul Imam on Wednesday about the offshore assets of the BNP leaders, including Khaleda. Referring to a report of Global Intelligence Network, Imam presented a list of the BNP leaders’ assets abroad. He said the Zia family have…
by Saibal Dasgupta in the Times of India, Sept 14, 2017 Beijing: China has signalled that it is unhappy with hawks demanding military action against India after the Doklam episode. The government’s views came from a major general of the People’s Liberation Army , who said the anti-India commentators do not have a “clear understanding of China’s strategic positioning“. “China and India are both neighbours and competitors, but not all competitors must be treated in…
by Tarek Mahmud in Dhaka Tribune, Sept 14, 2017 The militant outfits both at home and abroad are fishing in troubled waters as they are trying to inspire their followers to go to Myanmar and fight the country’s military in the name of saving the Rohingya people who face brutality at the hands of the Myanmar army. Highlighting the Rohingya crisis as an important issue, global jihadist groups and several international and native militant outfits…
Reuters report in the Nation, Sept 13, 2017 Al Qaeda militants have called for support for Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims, who are facing a security crackdown that has sent about 400,000 of them fleeing to Bangladesh, warning that Myanmar would face “punishment” for its “crimes”. The exodus of Muslim refugees from Buddhist-majority Myanmar was sparked by a fierce security force response to a series of Rohingya militant attacks on police and army posts in the country’s…