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  • Hindu persecution in Bangladesh, Shahbagh, and India’s BJP

    Everyone knows that the leaders of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and its student front Islami Chhatra Shibir incited the attacks on Hindus as we witnessed after the verdict in Delawar Hossain Sayedee case was delivered on February 28. The fundamentalist party activists continued their violent protests across the country targeting mainly the police, government offices, roads and…

  • BNP creates issue to endorse Jamaat violence!

    Though they’re allies, the BNP had been looking for an ISSUE to legitimise its bond with war criminal Jamaat-e-Islami. And throughout February, it tried to malign the OCCUPY SHAHBAGH movement as Jamaat and its like-minded Islamist parties are doing through different propaganda. The BNP’s latest programme was announced Monday afternoon just after the explosion of…

  • What the Jamaat-Shibir doing protesting war crimes verdict

    There have been 1971-like atrocities carried out by the Jamaat-Shibir, killings-rape-vandalism-looting-arson have been a daily dose they’re presenting the people of Bangladesh and across the world. Not just following the verdict, delivered on Thursday, the opposition parties mainly the Jamaat have been demonstrating against the govt on different issues since June 2009 — six months…

  • Aljazeera’s acting as Jamaat mouthpiece; Shahbagh firm

    Well! With the course of time, we’re realising that some international media including Aljazeera and The Economist, some rights groups like the HRW & Amnesty International and some highly-ranked govt officials of foreign countries don’t like the incumbent Awami League-led alliance govt, neither do I. But our (me & those opponent media) point of conflict or dislike against this…

  • Responding to Economist article on Sayedee verdict

    The story came on March 1, a day after the verdict in Deilya Sayedee razakar case was handed down highlighting the police-fire and the loopholes of the tribunal. I had to write something: Jamaat is no follower or preacher of ISLAM, but power through muscle and money. Moreover, as the “top” collaborators of Pakistan army,…

  • জামায়াত-শিবিরের নানামুখী আক্রমন ও তার জবাব

    বৃহষ্পতিবারের হাঙ্গামার পর জামায়াত-শিবিরের ফেসবুক ফাইটাররা আবার গা-ঝাড়া দিয়ে উঠতে চাইছে। নতুন নতুন প্ল্যান করছে কিভাবে আতংক সৃষ্টি করে চলমান যুদ্ধাপরাধের বিচার থামানো যায়। বাঁশেরকেল্লাসহ কয়েকটা ফেসবুক পেজ আর ব্লগ বন্ধ করলেও আবার গজাচ্ছে এরা — পুরাতন ও নতুন নাম নিয়ে। ভুয়া নামে নতুন নতুন একাউন্ট খোলা হচ্ছে স্যাবোটাজ করার জন্য, আবার শাহবাগ নাম দিয়ে…

  • Sayedee’s DEATH PENALTY, #SHAHBAGH & frantic Jamaat-Shibir

    It was evident that the fundamentalists would enforce a hartal with support of the BNP and carry out violent attacks across the country as fraud cleric and preacher of MOUDUDI Islam Delawar Hossain Sayedee has been handed down capital punishment for genocide, rape, loot and Hindu persecution in 1971. Until 9pm, the Jamaat-Shibir men have…

  • আওয়ামীলীগ আবার জামায়াতকে সুযোগ দিচ্ছে!

    ভন্ড ইসলামিক দল জামায়াতে ইসলামীকে নিষিদ্ধ করাটা যখন সময়ের দাবি এবং ইতিমধ্যেই অনেক দেরি হয়ে গেছে, তখন বিপুল জনসমর্থন নিয়ে ২০০৯ সালে ক্ষমতায় এসে যুদ্ধাপরাধীদের বিচার শুরু করলেও এখন দেখা যাচ্ছে সরকারপ্রধান দোনামনা করছেন, দ্বিধা-সংশয়ে তার অন্তরাত্মা কেঁপে উঠছে। এমনকি শাহবাগ ও দেশে-বিদেশে নানা জায়গায় গনজোয়ারের চাপে কদিন আগে ব্লগার রাজীবের পরিবারকে স্বান্তনা দিতে গিয়েও প্রধানমন্ত্রী…

  • #SHAHBAGH: Here rises the 21st sun against war criminals

    Shahbagh passes its 20th day in slogans-songs-dance to press home their six-point demands that include appealing against the verdict in Quader Mollah case and immediate ban of Jamaat-Shibir. But Sunday night, they expressed their frustration over no progress in arresting Amar Desh acting editor Mahmudur Rahman, also a senior BNP leader and a close aide…

  • Who is to stop these polluters?

    Highly polluting brickfields are still operating unabated across the country including on the outskirts of Dhaka posing serious health risks in this dry season, harming the nature and damaging arable land. Most of these conventional chimneys are baking bricks round the clock burning wood, tyres and low-quality coal. Replacing the chimneys with improved modern ones…

  • Jamaat-Shibir-Islamists attack mosques, flag, monument, SHAHBAGH stages

    Violent clashes have spread all over Bangladesh after Juma prayers Friday as activists of Jamaat-Shibir and 12 other like minded Islamist parties swooped on police. It began in Baitul Mukarrom national mosque around 12:30pm while police were checking every person before entering the mosque as they had information that subversive activities might take place. The agitators denounced…

  • Jamaat’s admitting genocide in Bangladesh, and correction!

    Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami has removed the December 16, 2012 statement it posted on its English website where it admitted: “The Jamaat-e-Islami and some Islamist political parties actively collaborated with the Pakistani forces, raising paramilitary and auxiliary forces such as Razakar, Al-Badr, Al-Shams which took part in genocide.” Ragib Hassan‘s tweet revealed this matter. His twitter account…

  • #SHAHBAGH heard on 16th night by #Aljazeera, lauded by scores

    At 3:00am Wednesday, on DAY-16 of OCCUPY SHAHBAGH MOVEMENT, there’re many protesters to keep the place secure from all odds as they have been gathering at the Gonojagoron Moncho in numbers throughout the day and night. Many new organisations and groups of students joined the PROTEST Tuesday, when parliamentarians, social and cultural organisations also joined…

  • #ALJAZEERA: We’re in #SHAHBAGH to HANG WAR CRIMINALS

    First of all, you Aljazeera and other prominent media either have been mum when the PROTEST began while some tried to downplay it by publishing any piece on it “neutrally” (giving minimum info and highlighting the claims by the WAR CRIMINALS). Well! We know the corporate world decisions aren’t emotion-driven, are taken to ensure money…

  • শাহবাগের শ্লোগানঃ গনজাগরনের মূলমন্ত্র

    গত চৌদ্দদিনে অনেক শ্লোগান শোনা যাচ্ছে শাহবাগের গনজাগরন মঞ্চে–যা আসলে রাজনৈতিক দলের জনসভার উঁচু মঞ্চের মতো নয়। শাহবাগের মোড়ে রাস্তার উপর বসে-দাঁড়িয়ে অবরোধ। গোল হয়ে বসে-একাত্ম হয়ে আন্দোলন চলছে মোড় থেকে চারুকলা আর আজিজ সুপার মার্কেট পর্যন্ত; রাস্তায় প্রতিদিন হাজার হাজার মানুষ এসে মিলিত হচ্ছে প্রানের উৎসবে। শ্লোগানে-মিছিলে-গানে সবার একটাই দাবি ১৯৭১ সালে যুদ্ধাপরাধের জন্য, মুক্তিযোদ্ধা ও…

  • #SHAHBAGH PROTEST enters 15th day with the spirit of ’71!

    Despite fear spread about Jamaat-Shibir atrocities & propaganda and inclement weather in Dhaka, protesters were desperate to keep OCCUPYING SHAHBAGH for the 14th night and going to welcome a foggy-winter morning, for the second consecutive day. And they’re chanting slogans relentlessly. The namaz-e-janaza of Tariqul Islam Shanto will be held at 11am at DU Central Mosque. Some…

  • Rain-threats couldn’t diffuse 13th day at #SHAHBAGH

    The protestors, educational institutions, businesses and transport owners-workers have vowed to RESIST today’s shutdown when the whole country will WEAR BLACK BADGE. Paramilitary force Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) deployed in the capital to aid police. Jamaat-funded Islami Bank vice-president Shahidul Islam has been arrested for his alleged involvement in creating anarchy. International Crimes Tribunals Act…

  • জামায়াত-শিবির কেন শান্তির ইসলাম মানে না?

    এককথায় প্রশ্নটার উত্তর হলোঃ অন্যায়কারী কখনো ন্যায়বিচার প্রতিষ্ঠা করতে পারেনা। জামায়াত-শিবিরকে নিষিদ্ধ করার দাবীতে গতরাতে একটা পোস্ট করেছিলাম আমার WORDPRESS ব্লগে। পোস্টের শিরোনাম ছিল “মাননীয় প্রধানমন্ত্রী, এখনই সুযোগ!” গোটা-বিশেক ছাগুর মন্তব্য পড়ে এখন জবাব দিচ্ছি। সহমতও জানিয়েছেন কয়েকজন। একদিনেই ১০,০০০ বারের বেশি দেখা হয়েছে ব্লগপোস্টটি! এরা যেসব মন্তব্য করেছে সেগুলো কোন ঈমানদার মুসলমান বলতে পারে…

  • মাননীয় প্রধানমন্ত্রী, এখনই সুযোগ!

    ব্লগার-স্থপতি-আলোকচিত্রী রাজীবের খুন হওয়া মানতে পারছেনা কেউ — শুধু জামায়াত-শিবির-বিএনপি ছাড়া। গত কয়েকদিনে সোনার বাংলা ব্লগের কর্মকান্ড থেকে বুঝা গেলো রাজীবকে খুন করার একটা পরিকল্পনার বীজ বোনা হয়েছিল। এর মধ্যেও রাজীবের অনবরত শাহবাগ আন্দোলন-যুদ্ধাপরাধের বিচার-সহিংসতা নিয়ে লিখে চলা থামেনি। ব্লগে আর ফেসবুক স্ট্যাটাসে বিরুদ্ধ মনোভাবের মন্তব্যগুলো সামলেছেন তিনি। জীবন যেকোন মুহুর্তে বিপদাপন্ন হতে পারে জেনেও…

  • #SHAHBAGH: 12th night passes without #RAZIB, long way to go!

    This WORDPRESS blog has been opened by someone who isn’t the person named “thabababa” (Ahmed Razib Haider Shobhon). This blogger was hacked to death on Friday night in Mirpur, Dhaka near his house allegedly by fanatic Muslims belonging to Jamaat-e-Islami’s student wing, Islami Chhatra Shibir. This blog contains Bangla satires on Prophet Hazrat Muhammad, a…

  • #SHAHBAGH #UPRISING: Murder alters much of 11th night

    Day’s top events: * Jamaat-Shibir fights armed battle against police-RAB in Cox’s Bazar, 4 killed, over 100 injured, 112 arrested, Section 144 declared. 48hr hartal from Saturday in the beach city. * Uprising Rally in the afternoon announces new schedule: 3-10pm from Saturday. Some 1,00,000 joined the gathering while there were 5,000 at 1:00am Saturday.…

  • #SHABAGH passes 10th day with million protestors

    The bill to amend the ICT Act has been submitted in parliament by the standing committee on law ministry after a scrutiny. It might be passed into law on Sunday, even though the govt could do it today. The EC sat today to decide on the cancellation of registration of radical Islamic party Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islam but it…

  • #OCCUPY #SHAHBAGH continues as Jamaat still violent

    They just can’t stand the mass uprising in Shahbagh and elsewhere in the country, an usual consequence, because it’s nothing but going against their party — Jamaat-Shibir! And it has happened several times this month that the Jamaat-Shibir launched premeditated attacks on police and general people to compel the government to stop the ongoing war…

  • Seventh night ends in #SHAHBAGH with frustration, violence follows

    The main opposition BNP shamelessly termed the SHAHBAGH protest a stage-managed event of the govt. The Jamaat-ally also asked the protestors to raise the other significant issues too. It was the last incident of the 7th night to put the protestors into fury. Until 2am Tuesday, people joined the gathering with enthusiasm and at 6am,…

  • Memorable SIXTH DAY of #OCCUPY #SHAHBAGH

    The day started with a good news: though late, the govt has decided to AMMEND the International Crimes Tribunal Act 1973 to ensure EQUAL RIGHTS for the victim and defendant in appealing against a verdict. The draft also proposes a 60-day timeframe within which the Appellate Division will have to complete the petition. The draft…

  • #SHAHBAGH passes fifth night over war crimes trial

    Shahbagh protestors witness another morning on the streets under the open sky on Sunday–sixth day in a row since February 5 afternoon to protest against the life term of butcher ABDUL QUADER MOLLAH, the Jamaat assistant secretary general. The agitating people want Quader be given CAPITAL PUNISHMENT for the heinious acts he had committed during…

  • The rise of ‘#Occupy #Shahbagh’

    I was forwarded an SMS by one friend around 3:30pm about the protest at Shahbagh and I rushed after taking leave from my office! On the way I saw very few vehicles on the street, but many rickshaws as usual, due to the shutdown called by Jamaat against the tribunal and its verdicts. Well, people…

  • HRW report on Bangladesh, war crimes trial and Prothom-alo’s bullshit editorial

    The Prothom-alo has done something too bad today in its one of the two editorials — opinion and preference of an editor — on the HRW report on HUMAN RIGHTS situation and stressed that this report mustn’t be BINNED like the previous instances rather the govt take into cognisance the observations and suggestions put forth…

  • Save the Sundarbans, shift Rampal coal-power plant

    The govts of Bangladesh & India have started officially the work of Rampal power plant by holding the first-ever meeting of the joint venture company in Dhaka. The Bangladesh govt seems to be pleased to show India that it can keep its words. The Daily Star has again done the job of a mouthpiece of…

  • By inviting US, BNP’s Khaleda Zia rapes Bangladesh

    The Washington Times opinion under the name of Begum Khaleda Zia gives me the impression of listening to a series of complaints from a “mathamota” razakar (meerzafar) against the Awami League’s Sheikh Hasina regime spoken to its “pir” and begging to be brought to power in exchange of an unlimited gang-rape. [NOTE: Since she can’t…

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