Bangladesh war crimes tribunal, founded by Hasina, to probe ‘mass murder’ charges against former PM – Times of India

Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina set up a war crime tribunal, International Crimes Tribunal (ICT), in 2010, to investigate atrocities committed during Bangladesh’s liberation war against Pakistan in 1971. Now, the ICT has initiated three investigations into “mass murder” against her, according to the tribunal’s investigator, Ataur Rahman. The probes are in response to…

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Hasina threw me out of Bangladesh to please Islamists, who forced her out today: Exiled author Taslima Nasreen – Times of India

After former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fled the country on Monday, Taslima Nasreen pointed out the ironic but similar conditions the exiled author was subjected to in 1999 in a post on social media.Nasreen said that Hasina expelled her from Bangladesh in 1999 to please Islamists when she returned to see her dying mother…

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