Bangladesh’s newly elected government has a moral and legal responsibility to bring justice for Avijit Roy and the many others killed, exiled, and silenced at the hands of Islamist extremists who acted with impunity under the Awami League.
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Bangladesh must end its pervasive culture of mob justice, vindictive politics, and the harassment and arrest of individuals without substantiated evidence.
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We are deeply troubled by reports of another US military intervention in the Middle East. The US airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities mark a dangerous escalation in a conflict between Israel and Iran that risks becoming an all-out regional war. What is particularly concerning is President Trump’s remark that his country will use greater military
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Even as tensions spread in the region, we must remember the humanitarian crisis faced by the people in Gaza.
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We are deeply alarmed by the detention of Mahmoud Khalil, a permanent U.S. resident, green-card holder, and prominent Palestinian student activist at Columbia University, who now faces possible deportation. The antisemitism accusations leveled against him are spurious and highly problematic. His arrest marks a pivotal moment for the future of free speech and the right
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We are deeply alarmed by and strongly condemn President Trump’s announcement that the US will ‘take over’ and ‘own’ the Gaza Strip. Should this plan be carried out, it will amount to the ethnic cleansing of its current inhabitants. Around two million Gazans will lose their ancestral homes. The Nakba will be re-enacted. The announcement
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In Stop Genocide, a short documentary that runs a modest length of twenty-odd minutes, the Bangladeshi writer and filmmaker Zahir Raihan masterfully documented the atrocities committed by the Pakistani armed forces in Bangladesh’s liberation war of 1971. Raihan became a victim of the very same genocide he documented two days before it officially ended. While
