Bangladesh Blocks williamgomes.org website

The so-called democratic government of Bangladesh has blocked the website of a Bangladeshi Christian journalist and human right activist on writing a poem against oppression and human right violation. William Gomes has always been targeted by Bangladeshi administration on his campaign for social justice in society for which he had spent time in hiding on [...]

Rapist Penis Cut-off by a Bangladeshi Woman

A 40-year-old Bangladeshi woman cut off a man’s genitalia during an attempted rape and took it to a police station as evidence, police in a remote part ofBangladeshsaid on May 30, 2011. The woman, a married mother of three, was attacked while she was sleeping in her shanty in Jhalakathi district, some 200 kilometres south [...]

Sri Lanka Helped Pakistan Military in Cracking Down on the Bengalis

The Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam (TGTE) has reminded the people of Bangladesh about the role Sri Lanka played in the massacre of Bangladesh civilians during the war of independence in 1971. During the war Sri Lanka refueled Pakistani Aircraft and offered other assistance to ferry Pakistani troops to fight inBangladesh. Since Pakistan could not [...]

Can the Pakistani Supreme Court Ever Outlaw Religious Parties?

Combating theocracy: Bangladesh Supreme Court verdict by Huzaima Bukhari Both Pakistan and Bangladesh since 1971 have been facing problems in establishing democratic institutions. Bangladesh witnessed many military coups and countercoups, but luckily in politics, the junta kept a distance from the mullah. In Pakistan, the military-mullah onslaughts, using religion as a tool for Jihad in [...]

Victims of Eve-Teasing Committing Suicide

Sexual harassment against girls and women in Bangladesh is turning deadly: 28 women have committed suicide in 2010 and another seven attempted it to escape frequent sexual harassment http://www.askbd.org/web/ ].   A father also committed suicide fearing social insult after his daughter was harassed and in other cases, stalkers killed three women.   According to [...]

Dhaka High Court Rules Against Burqa (Veil)

The Dhaka High Court has directed the authorities not to force women to wear ‘burqa’ (veil) in educational institutions and work places. A bench of the High Court Division comprising Justice A H M Shamsuddin Chowdhury and Justice Sheikh Md Zakir Hossain also directed them not to bar women and girls from taking part in [...]

Will Biharis Stranded in Bangladesh Be Ever Taken Back?

Helping the over 200,000-strong Bihari minority in Bangladesh learn how to read and write is key to their full integration. “I wanted to go to school but my father faced great financial difficulty. I can count and I can get by, but I would like to study,” a Bihari youth, , 19, said. 94 percent of [...]

Taking Dhaka Did Not Figure in Manekshaw’s Plans: General Jacob

In CNBC’s ‘India Tonight’ programme broadcast on April 30, Karan Thapar presented an interview with Lieutenant-General J.F.R. Jacob, who was Chief of Staff of the Indian Army’s Eastern Command during the Bangladesh campaign of 1971, and who was after his retirement Governor of Goa and Governor of Punjab, in the context of the Government’s decision [...]

Bangladesh Battles Male Attitudes Behind Sexual Crimes

By Cat Barton When Aleya Akhter turned down a proposal of marriage, her enraged suitor turned up at her family’s Dhaka apartment, grabbed the Bangladeshi teenager, poured petrol on her and lit a match. Aleya, 18, sustained burns to 70 percent of her body and died after six days in intensive care, becoming one of [...]

Bangladesh: When Will Extrajudicial Killings Stop?

“The danger of denying fundamental rights,” by Mahbubul Islam (Lawyer, Supreme Court of Bangladesh and Seretary General, Society of Justice, a human rights organisation), trybangladesh@yahoo.com. Civilization is thought to have come to a stage when we are supposedly living in a rights-based rational society. In order to consolidate our perceived and real gains in this [...]