Bangladesh, India vow to bring border killings to zero
Bangladesh, India vow to bring border killings to zero

Bangladesh and India have agreed to take effective measures to bring down border killings of Bangladeshi nationals to zero level and conduct joint inspections in case of carrying out any construction within 150 yards of the frontiers. The two countries reached the agreement after a four-day...

“Mass killings must be addressed as top priority in legal proceedings”
“Mass killings must be addressed as top priority in legal proceedings”

Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer, Dr. Shafiqur Rahman, has called for the prosecution of every instance of mass killing in the country, stressing that justice should be the governments top priority. He made the statement during a public gathering at a conference organized by the district...

Sheikh Hasina advises killing of Brigadier General Azmi
Sheikh Hasina advises killing of Brigadier General Azmi

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has uncovered evidence suggesting that former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina directly ordered the disappearances and killings of political opponents during her tenure. In its report, After the Monsoon RevolutionA Roadmap to Lasting Security Sector Reform in Bangladesh, HRW...

HRW hands over report to CA, says Hasina directly ordered enforced disappearances, killings
HRW hands over report to CA, says Hasina directly ordered enforced disappearances, killings

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has handed a report on the July Uprising to Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus, saying that officers had told them the ousted Bangladesh dictator, Sheikh Hasina directly ordered enforced disappearances and killings. A HRW delegation led by Elaine Pearson, Asia...

July mass killing trial could be completed before election
July mass killing trial could be completed before election

Law Adviser Asif Nazrul on Wednesday hoped that the trial of the July mass killings could be completed before the next national election as the interim government is committed to ensuring justice to brutal, inhuman killings committed during the July-August uprising, reports UNB. Though this is a...

Ex-president Abdul Hamid sued over July uprising killings
Ex-president Abdul Hamid sued over July uprising killings

Former president and Awami League politician Abdul Hamid has been accused for the first time in a lawsuit over July-August 2024 uprising killings. The defendant Tahmul Islam, 27, is a BNP activist in Kishoreganj and claims to be officially recognised as an injured in the student-led anti-fascist...

India must stop border killings: Mirza Fakhrul
India must stop border killings: Mirza Fakhrul

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has called on India to stop border killings, saying that the BNP has always made this demand. Border killings can never be accepted, he made the remark while responding to reporters questions at Osmani International Airport during his visit to...

'Intellectuals' killings were anti-liberation forces’ most heinous revenge'
'Intellectuals' killings were anti-liberation forces’ most heinous revenge'

The killing of intellectuals in a planned and brutal massacre during the Liberation War was the most heinous act of vengeance by anti-liberation forces after their defeat, remarked Chief Adviser of the interim government, Dr Muhammad Yunus. In a message issued on Friday marking the occasion of...

RAB to investigate allegations of enforced disappearances and killings: DG
RAB to investigate allegations of enforced disappearances and killings: DG

The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) will investigate all allegations of enforced disappearances and killings, announced its Director General AKM Shahidur Rahman on Thursday. Speaking at a press conference held at the Media Center in Karwan Bazar, Dhaka, he assured that such incidents would not occur...

France recognizes 1944 Thiaroye killings as massacre for 1st time
France recognizes 1944 Thiaroye killings as massacre for 1st time

French President Emmanuel Macron, for the first time as any head of French government,, formally acknowledged the killing of West African soldiers by French forces in 1944 as a massacre, in a letter addressed to Senegalese authorities on Thursday. The recognition comes on the eve of the 80th...