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There is this recent tendency to proclaim that Jamaat-e-Islam’s student wing Islami Chattra Shibir is no worse than BNP’s student wing Jatiyatabadi Chattra Dol and the ruling party Awami League’s student wing Bangladesh Chattra League. While superficially rational, this comparison is actually based on a profound confusion and negligence of the facts.

Railway police recovered the deadbody of lyricist & composer Ahmed Imtiaz Bulbul's younger brother from beside the Kuril flyover of the capital.

The musician was a witness against former Jamaat-e-Islami Amir Golam Azam in the International Criminal Tribunal.

We may use Facebook or other online social media for sharing our status to friends, to post some pictures of what we are eating or what movies we just watched, but may be it's time we realized the real power of social media to democratize people and technology. While many of us have a computer/cell phone with internet connection, let's think about what we can do with these tools.

[justify]On February 16 2013, a petition was created to get attention from the Obama administration regarding the ongoing “International War Crime Tribunal and ‘Mob Justice’ in Bangladesh” (https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/express-concern-against-international-war-crime-tribunal-and-mob-justice-bangladesh/6gg04svt).

[justify]On February 16 2013, a petition was created to get attention from the Obama administration regarding the ongoing “International War Crime Tribunal and ‘Mob Justice’ in Bangladesh” (https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/express-concern-against-international-war-crime-tribunal-and-mob-justice-bangladesh/6gg04svt).

Shahbag movement believes in people’s power, believes in democracy, believes in peaceful protest, which we have successfully demonstrated since last month. We will continue this protest until every single war criminal is brought under justice.

Translation of article published in Kaler Kontho on March 07, 2013

Translated by: Anonymous

Date: March 7, 2013
Translation of article released in the Daily Prothom Alo: http://www.prothom-alo.com/detail/date/2013-03-07/news/334498

Blogger Ahmed Rajib Hyder(Shovon), writing under the pseudonym “Thaba baba”, was known for his strong anti-religion rhetoric and his equally vocal opposition to the “Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islam” party, which aided and actively participated in the genocide of Bengali population alongside the Pakistani army in the liberation war of Bangladesh in 1971.