I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.” — Thomas Jefferson Earlier this week CSB, the only private 24-hour news channel in Bangladesh, was shut down without notice by the military government, allegedly for having filed a “forged” document...
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The symbol of revolution. This photo has spread across the world like fire. Also read “Regarding the ‘apology’ made by my father Dr. M Anwar Hossain.” During last week’s mass protests in Bangladesh a demonstrator, possibly a student, lunged toward a Bangladesh army man with his feet raised in anger. The...
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Photo: Blog:Biplob Rahman. After declaring a curfew on Wednesday, the Bangladesh military began to systematically target journalists for beating and intimidation. The Committee to Protect Journalists has protested the treatment of journalists by the Bangladesh military: Committee to Protect Journalists is dismayed by reports of the assault, detention, and harassment of...
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Today Bangladesh’s military turned its guns and its boots against the very people who it is entrusted to protect. Today when the frustrations of the Bangladeshi people boiled over, the army responded with beatings and killings. They beat students. They beat reporters. They beat our brothers and they beat our sisters.
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Photo: Dhanmondi 32, August 15, 1975. On a Friday evening more than three decades ago a man named Khondker Mushtaque Ahmed, with blood on his hands, addressed the nation of Bangladesh over television and radio. He declared that he was now President of Bangladesh. He said the Bangladesh military had taken...
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