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Bangladesh: Trial by Politics - The Series

A report into the alleged war crimes trials in Bangladesh.

(DHAKA, Bangladesh) - Islam Channel TV has produced a revealing series on the problems in Bangladesh that have left more than 150 dead, and a nation on a new page.

Muslim political leaders are being tried for war crimes from more than 40 years ago, during the revolution and war against Pakistan.

Bangladesh Govt. Liable for Violent Clashes: Stephen Lendman

Reports say home-made bombs exploded in central part of the city, where several people including protesters and security forces were injured.

(DHAKA, Bangladesh) - An analyst says the Bangladeshi government is responsible for the violent clashes that are breaking out in the South Asian country as it has left the people no choice but to “fight fire with fire.”

The comment comes as clashes erupted between Bangladeshi police and protesters over controversial trials of opposition politicians including leaders of the country’s Jamaat-e-Islami party.

New Documentary: Bangladesh A Trial by Politics

Are the controversial war crime trials in Bangladesh fair or warranted?

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - Salem-News.com's William Nicholas Gomes, has been filing reports about the new political movement in Bangladesh that seeks to convict senior Muslim leaders for complicity in the 1971 Genocide.

The truth, as the video below reveals, is that all of the major political parties in Bangladesh have members suspected of war crimes, but only particular opposition parties are being singled out.

William Gomes Radio Interview: Bangladesh Attempt to Ban Islam`s Largest Political Party Moves Forward

CII Broadcasting interviews Human Rights activist about big changes in Bangladesh.

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - Salem-News.com's William Gomes, a native of Bangladesh, has been covering the country's controversial revolution known as the Shahbaugh movement in recent weeks.

Rather than a movement of the people, Shahbaugh appears to exist to bring down once powerful elements of the country's Muslim political party, Jamaat.

Shahbagh: What Revolution, Whose Revolution?

People in Bangladesh are politically polarized over the Shahbagh movement and its demands.

(YORK, UK) - The protests in Shahbagh erupted apparently spontaneously in response to the first verdict handed down by Bangladesh's domestic tribunal for war crimes committed during the 1971 war.

The primary demand? The death sentence.

Greece: Blackwater Mercenaries Guarding Govt and Overseeing Police; Coup Feared

Blackwater/Academi are infamous as the company that ran mercenary operations during the last Iraq War and were engaged in unnecessary fire fights in urban areas, taking civilian lives.

(ATHENS Darker Net) - Over the last 12 months or more Greece has seen wave after wave of mass demonstrations.

Riots, battles between police and protesters, armed attacks on Government premises, are frequent events.

Dozens Dead in Central Damascus Bombing

Al Jazeera’s Rula Amin, reporting from Beirut in neighbouring Lebanon, said the explosion took place in a heavily fortified area.

(DAMASCUS al Jazeera) - At least 42 people, most of them civilians, have been killed in a powerful car bomb targeting the ruling Baath Party headquarters in central Damascus on Thursday, state media and activists say.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a UK-based anti-government rights group, said the attack took place in the capital's central Mazraa neighbourhood on Thursday...

#Shahbag: What Revolution? Who`s Revolution?

If these chains of corruption and the political nexus are not broken they will keep ruling and oppressing forever.

(YORK, UK) - #Shahbag movement began on 5th February 2013, with the demand of capital punishment for Abdul Quader Mollah and all the other accused war criminals of the 1971 war.

#Shahbag is in line with specific demands, those are political and economical in nature. In Pakistan, the Hindus were declared enemies of the state and that victimization continued in free Bangladesh.

#Shahbag: Social Revolution

#Shahbag is a stereotype of a movement for a select few...

(YORK, UK) - Bangladesh badly needs industrial, societal and economic reorganization.

Bangladesh has root and reasons for a bottom-up, social revolution, which will reorganize all of society.

Be a Rebel

This powerful video by Ace, and featuring UK’s noted hip-hop artists, Arafat and Gandhi, will light a fire in you to stand up and shout to the world that we are no longer going to take it anymore!

(WASHINGTON DC) - For me, whenever I would hear the word Revolution, the very first thing that would pop into my mind was the song that was made popular by the Beatles, called Revolution.

That was before; before all the tiny seeds were planted in my mind that grew and grew into what I call the real truth! Not what the media portrays to be the truth though, the REAL truth!