Demystifying Bangabandhu

August 15, 2010
Syeed Ahamed

I have a confession to make — I probably do not know Bangabandhu well. Do you? All these years, I thought I knew him. I mean, how can I not know the person who inspired us through our struggle for independence? How can I not know him when his March 7 speech still gives me...
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Trials and error

June 5, 2010
Syeed Ahamed

Some 90,000 – 95,000 Pakistani prisoners of war (POWs) were imprisoned after they surrendered to the Joint Command of Bangladesh-India at the end of Bangladesh’s war of independence in 1971. The New York Times reported in March 1972, that Bangladesh intended to try some 1,100 Pakistani war criminals including A.A.K. Niazi and Rao Forman...
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