by Tuhin Shubhra Adhikary in The Daily Star, June 15, 2023The government’s decision to allow Jamaat-e-Islami back in active politics, instead of bringing it to book for its 1971 role, will be suicidal for the ruling Awami League and above all, the country, said freedom fighters, families of the martyrs and war crimes researchers. The government is abandoning the spirit of the Liberation War by taking such a decision just to stay in power, they…
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Report in The Daily Star online, Apr 30, 2023Rapid Action Battalion arrested a fugitive war criminal, who was sentenced to death for crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971. Montaz Ali Bapary alias Momtaz, 76, was arrested from Gazipur’s Chandra area last night, Lt Col Arif Mohiuddin Ahmed, commanding officer of Rab-3, told a press briefing today. The Rab CO said Montaz had been hiding since 2016. He moved to his son’s house…
report in The Daily Star, Apr 25, 2023The International Association of Genocide Scholars (IASG) has adopted yesterday a resolution entitled “Resolution to Declare the Crimes Committed during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War as Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes”. The IASG resolution is an important recognition, in the international arena, of the atrocities committed during the Bangladesh Genocide of 1971, reads a press release. The government of Bangladesh has been making continuous efforts to…
By Nazir Shinwari in TOLOnews, April 10, 2023 at 9:27 PMAfghanistan ranked fourth among countries with the highest crimes rates in 2023 according to the World Population Review website. The report said that crime is present in various forms, including corruption, assassinations/contract killings, drug trafficking, kidnapping, and money laundering. “Afghanistan supplied 85% of the world’s illicit opium in 2020. The Taliban, which regained control of the country in 2021, has pledged to stamp out the…
Report in TOLOnews Online, March 30,2023Countries that have committed war crimes in Afghanistan in the last four decades and have killed Afghans under various names should be sent to the International Criminal Court, said Khalil Rahman Haqqani, the Acting Minister of Refugees and Repatriation. Addressing an event of aid distribution in Paktia province, Haqqani said that some countries are still trying to create problems for Afghanistan. “The former Soviet government and all its slaves, whether…
report in Prothom Alo, Mar 27, 2023Some students of Dhaka University (DU) have been embroiled in criminal activities on the campus late in the night forming a gang for quite some time. The gang members, all sophomore students of 2020-21 session, are involved with drug consuming, mugging, extortion and other crimes. The details of the ‘Proloy Gang’, as they call themselves, came to light after the members beat up a fellow student recently. The gang…
report in Khaama Press on line, Feb 2, 2023Taliban Supreme Court has announced that at least 16 people alleged of different crimes have been flogged in public in southern Helmand Province on Thursday. The alleged individuals accused of different crimes have been lashed in public in the Grishk district of southern Helmand province earlier today, according to the announcement made by the Taliban’s supreme court. The United Nations have described lashing Afghan men and women…
The seventh annual report of the Sindh Human Rights Commission (SHRC) painted a depressing picture of what life is like for the people of the province. 738 cases of human rights violations pertaining to crimes like forced marriages, extremism, gender-based violence, honour killings, workplace harassment, torture and religious intolerance were reported–the key word here is ‘reported’. The number is likely to go up if we account for all the crimes that have been committed under…
by Saqalain Eqbal in Khaama Press online, Dec 8, 2022Local authorities in the Parwan province of northern Afghanistan reportedly said that 27 people—men and women—were publicly lashed on Thursday for crimes such as alleged adultery, theft, drug use, and other offenses. Abdul Rahim Rashid, an official of the Supreme Court, told the Associated Press that 18 men and 9 women were sentenced to between 25 and 39 lashes for their crimes after being found guilty…