Dhaka University yesterday barred Prof Imtiaz Ahmed, of Center for Genocide Studies, from engaging in any academic activities of the university for allegedly distorting the country’s history and defaming Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
1971 Bangladesh genocide: Constructive criticism with honest intent can enrich our understanding of history. However, the recent intolerance towards different perspectives and the vilification of an author with charges of sedition are unacceptable and go against the values of our Liberation War.
Cutting Extrajudicial Killings: Visiting US Assistant Secretary Donald Lu yesterday expressed satisfaction that Rab reduced extrajudicial killings since late 2021, when the US imposed sanctions on the force.
Academics and international affairs experts in Bangladesh have pulled UK up over its apparent “hypocrisy” for stalling the long-pending extradition request for a convicted 1971 war criminal which is in stark contrast to removing Shamima Begum’s British citizenship with the reasoning that she is “a citizen of Bangladesh by descent”. Shamima – born and raised in UK – had joined Islamic State in Syria but is now fighting in a UK court against revocation of her citizenship.
Shamima Begum left her home in