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Purna Lal Chakma

Apr 20, 2025, 7:03 AM

Demanding Justice in the Chittagong Hill Tracts Now an “Anti-State Activity.”

An Indigenous student is pleading with folded hands, begging the authorities not to stop their protest.

In the event Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh, demanding justice for rape seems to have become an anti-state act. Indigenous youth, with folded hands, pleaded with the police and army to allow their peaceful protest demanding justice for a rape...

Purna Lal Chakma

Nov 1, 2024, 10:55 PM

Bangladesh Ravaged By The Storm Of Islamism

Sripad Chinmoy Krishna Das holding a Bangladesh National Flag

On August 5 of this year, following the fall of the Awami League government, an Islamic government assumed power in Bangladesh under the guise of the Yunus administration. People of all communities believed they had regained their freedom of...

Purna Lal Chakma

Oct 14, 2024, 7:02 PM

Chakma King Broke His Silence Against Jihadism

Chakma King Barrister Raja Devasish Roy broke his silence yesterday and expressed his disappointment with the government led by Nobel Peace laureate Dr. Yunus. He posted his concerns on Facebook, requesting that the rights of non-Muslim minorities and Indigenous...

Oct 9, 2024, 10:50 AM

The Final Journey

After the liberation of Bangladesh in December 1971, the Pakistani government interned the Bangladeshi military personnel and civilian bureaucrats living in West Pakistan. In late 1973, after the signing of the India-Pakistan-Bangladesh War Repatriation Agreement, we (my parents and...

Sergio Restelli

Sep 23, 2024, 7:59 AM

Bangladesh radicalises after the change in government

As events continue to develop in Bangladesh, the growing influence of radical Islamist groups, such as Jamaat-e-Islami, is becoming increasingly evident in the country’s evolving political landscape. Jamaat-e-Islami, a party that was involved in war crimes during Bangladesh’s 1971...

Michael Zoosman

May 19, 2023, 6:20 PM

‘L’chaim!’ Demands Increased Press Coverage of Global Executions

It is essential that international news outlets offer more press coverage of the executions that continue to plague our world. Though state killings remain a state secret in China, which is likely the worst global offender on this front,...

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