par j.james | Août 13, 2015 | Bangladesh
Joy: We don't want to jeopardise blogger murder probes
The government has not disclosed much information on the developments on the probe of blogger killings as it does not want to jeopardise the investigations, prime minister's ICT Affairs Adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy has said.
The prime minister's son made the statement in a status on his official Facebook page posted on Thursday.
"We have made a few arrests and the investigations are ongoing. We have not disclosed too much information because we do not want to jeopardize the investigations," Joy writes.
Terming the people who demand immediate arrests as ignorant fools, Joy said: "Who are we supposed to arrest? We cannot just arrest anyone at random. We have to arrest the killers. Our investigations are leading us to them and we will arrest them as we locate them."
Addressing the people who blame the government for not doing anything over the killings, Joy asked them to inform police if they know the whereabouts of the killers.
"But if you don’t know who and where they are, leave the job up to the professionals."
Dhaka Tribune – jeudi 13 août 2015 07:49
par j.james | Août 13, 2015 | Bangladesh
Human Rights Watch urges Bangladesh to avoid self-censorship
[su_row][su_column size= »1/3″] Read More … [/su_column] [su_column size= »2/3″] Bangladesh authorities should unequivocally declare their commitment to free speech instead of proposing self-censorship, Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday.
The killing of secular blogger Niladri Chatterji on August 7 is a harrowing reminder of the need for Bangladesh to take immediate steps to protect the security of all and end attempts at muzzling independent voices, the rights body said.
Chatterji, who used the pen name Niloy Neel, is the fourth blogger to be murdered in Bangladesh this year for advocating secularism. [/su_column] [/su_row]
par j.james | Août 12, 2015 | Bangladesh
Bangladeshi workers.
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It is disappointing that the updated list of states qualifying for the United States’ duty-free GSP program still excludes Bangladesh, which was suspended in 2013 over concern about workers’ rights issues.
Although RMG exports do not come under this arrangement, re-instating Bangladesh is important as a vote of confidence in the work done to advance labour rights since the Rana Plaza disaster.
This progress and the work done by the government and the brand-led Alliance and Accord stake-holder initiatives on improving factory safety, deserves to be acknowledged.
It is unjust to single Bangladesh out for exclusion, when concerns about labour rights are international, and the new list contains 122 different countries including all other members of SAARC.
The government should renew efforts to persuade the US to allow Bangladesh GSP privileges. At a time when other countries are benefiting from new trade deals, it is vital to ensure that our exporters are not left behind. [/su_column] [/su_row]
par j.james | Août 10, 2015 | Bangladesh
Fondamentalisme religieux.
[su_row][su_column size= »1/3″] [/su_column] [su_column size= »2/3″] L'Assassinat du Blogger Niloy est évoqué dans les journaux français dont Le Monde, la Croix et Libération notamment.
Extrait : «Niloy Neel écrivait pour le droit des femmes et des minorités, il critiquait l’extrémisme religieux de tous bords qui provoque des attentats suicides et tue des milliers de citoyens. Il était la voix de la justice, de la laïcité et des droits de l’homme. Qui sera le suivant ?», résumait vendredi le responsable du Réseau de blogueurs et d’activistes en ligne du Bangladesh, Imran Sarker. Niloy Neel était le nom de plume de Niladri Chatterjee, diplômé en philosophie d'une trentaine d'années. C'est le quatrième blogueur tué dans le pays depuis le début de l’année. Libération du 08/08/2015. [/su_column] [/su_row]
Les autorités accusées de ne rien faire.
Après l’assassinat de Das, le groupe islamiste fondamentaliste Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) avait été interdit par les autorités, qui avaient été accusées de ne rien faire pour empêcher de telles attaques.
Bon nombre de blogueurs qui défendent la laïcité sont passés dans la clandestinité et signent sous des pseudonymes. D’autres ont fui à l’étranger. Les militants laïcs accusent les islamistes d’avoir une liste noire des personnes à abattre. La croix du 09/08/15.
Le Réseau des blogueurs et des militants du Bangladesh, alerté par un témoin, a confirmé à l’AFP qu’un commando d’agresseurs était entré « chez lui, au cinquième étage, (avait) écarté son ami » et l’avait tué « à coups de machette ». Le responsable de ce réseau, Imran H. Sarker, a précisé que Niloy Neel « était sur une liste de cibles établie par les militants islamistes ». Le Monde du 07/08/15
Unanimement, la presse française déplore le laxisme des autorités du Bangladesh devant ces multiples affaires de meurtres de bloggeurs critiquant les dérives extrémistes. Elle regrette la passivité des autorités, le peu de moyen mis pour la protection des bloggeurs et surtout l'action de la justice alors que les meurtriers ne sont toujours pas jugés.
De son coté, Benjamin Ismaïl, le responsable du bureau Asie-Pacifique de Reporters sans frontières déclare :
« Aujourd’hui, nous souhaitons dire aux autorités que, en plus de porter une grande part de responsabilité dans l’assassinat de Niloy Neel, elles devront répondre de leur échec à traduire en justice les meurtriers des blogueurs tués depuis le début de l’année, et que nous continuerons à les interpeller sur cette absence inacceptable de mesures de protection »
par j.james | Août 10, 2015 | Bangladesh
Bangladesh and Vietnam will increase the volume of annual bilateral trade to $1000 million by 2016..
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This decision was taken during a bilateral meeting between Bangladesh President Abdul Hamid and Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang at Presidential palace in Vietnam on Monday, reports BSS.
In this regard, the both countries agreed to remove all trade related barriers and establish physical connectivity for their mutual benefits.
According to foreign ministry of Bangladesh, the existing trade volume between the two countries is less than $700 million.
From July-June in 2014-15, Bangladesh exported goods worth $32.77 million to Vietnam while Vietnam exported $318.4 million to Bangladesh. [/su_column] [/su_row]
par j.james | Août 9, 2015 | Bangladesh
Talisma Nasreen and fanatic Islam.
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Following the brutal murder of secular blogger Niladri Chatterjee Niloy, exiled Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen has said no critic of fanatic Islam is safe in Bangladesh.
The writer, who was forced to leave Bangladesh in 1994 when extremists threatened to kill her for criticising Islam, also criticised the government and the law enforcers for their failure to catch the killers of Niloy. [/su_column] [/su_row]
par j.james | Août 8, 2015 | Bangladesh
Dhaka – Cittagong rail link.
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Train communication of Chittagong with Dhaka and Sylhet has been suspended following derailment of a freight train in Banasua under Comilla sadar upazila.
Assistant engineer of Comilla railway station Abdul Hamid said four compartments of a Dinajpur-bound freight train from Chittagong veered off the track around 10:30am, halting train movement on the Chittagong-Dhaka and Chittagong-Sylhet routes. [/su_column] [/su_row]
par j.james | Août 7, 2015 | Bangladesh
Keep people in their place.
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Masud Sheikh from Koyra village of Khulna, whom I met first on May 27, 2009, two days after cyclone Aila hit the southwest coast, lost everything. He was looking for shelter, food, clothes for him and his family. A year later, I met him pulling a rickshaw at the Khulna Sonadanga Bus terminal.
“I came here a week after Aila. As you know, due to Aila, I lost everything- my home, my farm and even my livestock. I went to the ward members, chairman, NGOs, but did not get enough support. My brother-in-law lives in Sonadanga, he told me to come to Khulna. I am not educated, but I am the only earning member of my six member family. I kept my daughter with my wife in the village. She is going to school there. My son is with me and is going to school here. After school he works at a tea-stall near the slum where we live. My wife works in a biscuit factory. I’m pulling a rickshaw. My income is very poor, I hardly earn Tk300 to Tk350 per day. I don’t earn the same amount of money every day. If my wife’s job becomes permanent, we will settle here.” [/su_column] [/su_row]
par j.james | Août 7, 2015 | Bangladesh
Aqis says its members killed Niloy.
[su_row][su_column size= »1/3″] Read More …. [/su_column] [su_column size= »2/3″]Ansar Al Islam has claimed responsibility for the murder of secular blogger Niloy Chatterjee.
The organisation also known as al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) in an email to the media in the evening hailed the murder that took place around 1:30pm in Khilgaon and threatened to destroy the other blasphemers.
The email was sent from ansar.al.islam.bd@gmail.com.
Police suspect that this organisation is none other than recently banned militant group Ansarullah Bangla Team.
Previously Ansar Al Islam through its Twitter account had claimed responsibilities for the murder of several other secularist activists killed since 2013. [/su_column] [/su_row]
par j.james | Août 7, 2015 | Religious fundamentalism
Blogger hacked to death
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Unknown assailants have murdered a secular Ganajagaran Mancha activist and blogger inside his house in Dhaka.
Khilgaon police OC Mustafizur Rahman told bdnews24.com Niloy Chakrabarty Neel was killed in his flat on the fourth floor of a building at North Gorhan around 1:45pm on Friday.
His user name on social networking sites was Niloy Neel. He also used to blog under this name on website ‘Istishon’ (Station).
Rahman said five assailants armed with machetes entered the flat in two groups after the Juma prayers and killed him.
Niloy, the fourth blogger to have been murdered this year, lived in that flat with his family.
Imran H Sarker, the Ganajagaran Mancha spokesperson, told bdnews24.com Niloy was an activist of the platform that is demanding a ban on Islamist parties and the maximum punishment for 1971 war criminals. [/su_column] [/su_row]
