Israel鈥檚 war on Gaza continues because it is lucrative for many big corporations, according to a new report released by聽 United Nations special rapporteur on the situation of human rights, Francesca Albanese, in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), Francesca Albanese, reports Al Jazeera.
ISRAEL鈥橲 weaponization of starvation is how genocides always end. I covered the insidious effects of orchestrated starvation in the Guatemalan Highlands during the genocidal campaign of General Efra铆n R铆os Montt, the famine in southern Sudan that left a quarter of a million dead 鈥� I walked past the frail and skeletal corpses of families lining roadsides 鈥� and later...
Spain鈥檚 prime minister Pedro Sanchez on Thursday became the most prominent European leader to describe the situation in Gaza as a 鈥榞enocide鈥�, as rescuers in the war-ravaged Palestinian territory said Israeli forces killed 56 people...
THE Orwellian G7 statement described Israel鈥檚 military attacks on Iran as 鈥榮elf鈥慸efence.鈥� By twisting language to fit political ends, the communiqu茅 normalises aggression and offers diplomatic cover for Israel鈥檚 serial violations of international law. Rather than condemning Israeli dangerous escalation, the G7 resorts to vague calls for 鈥榙e-escalation,鈥� effectively...
THIS is the end. The final blood-soaked chapter of the genocide. It will be over soon. Weeks. At most. Two million people are camped out amongst the rubble or in the open air. Dozens are killed and wounded daily from Israeli shells, missiles, drones, bombs and bullets...
Ganatantrik Odhikar Committee, a Bangladeshi platform working for democratic rights of people, on Tuesday demanded an immediate release of kidnapped activists and an end to genocide and occupation in Palestine by Israeli forces...
The National Sports Council on Thursday has terminated the nomination of Faruque Ahmed in the Bangladesh Cricket Board in the director category, a move that effectively ended Faruque鈥檚 tenure as the president of the board.
Nearly 380 writers from the UK and Ireland, including Zadie Smith and Ian McEwan, penned an open letter Wednesday denouncing what they called Israel鈥檚 鈥榞enocide鈥� in Gaza and urging a ceasefire...
The Appellate Division on Tuesday overturned its 2019 judgement that had upheld the death sentence of Jamaat-e-Islami leader ATM Azharul Islam for crimes against humanity and genocide committed during the 1971 liberation war...
CONSEQUENT to the escalated Zionist genocide of Indigenous Palestinian people, and after a blockade of all goods since the beginning of March 2025, Gaza is experiencing a severe humanitarian crisis, with widespread food scarcity and starvation among its population. Human rights organizations and international agencies report the Israeli blockade has led to...
South Africans voiced anger on Thursday at US president Donald Trump鈥檚 persistent false claim of a genocide against white farmers that were repeated in talks with president Cyril Ramaphosa.
Chief prosecutor of the International Crimes Tribunal Muhammad Tajul Islam on Tuesday said mass murder had taken place, not genocide, during the July uprising, calling for not spreading confusions over this.
The top United Nations court on Monday threw out Sudan鈥檚 case against the United Arab Emirates over alleged complicity in genocide during the brutal Sudanese civil war.
IN A functioning democracy, the justice system exists to uphold truth, safeguard the innocent and ensure the guilty are held to account. Yet in Bangladesh, the courts are not reliably the sanctuary they were once believed to be. The proliferation of false and fabricated legal cases for control, revenge or coercion 鈥� signals not just institutional dysfunction, but a deeper...
THE wave of protests taking place as elsewhere around the world as in Bangladesh in solidarity with Palestine, demanding an end to Israel鈥檚 genocide in Gaza and condemning US complicity in an expanding offensive in the Palestinian city, that too, in violation of a ceasefire is something that Israel and the United States should heed for them to act and the world community for it...
WESTERN governments actively assisting genocide in Gaza; attacks on benefits for the disabled; a deliberate official narrative of Russophobia; rampant Islamophobia boosting the rise of extreme right-wing parties and fueled by government anti-immigrant rhetoric; an incredible accumulation of wealth by the ultra-rich; rampant erosion of freedoms of speech and...
Jatiya Kabita Parishad on Tuesday organised a protest rally and a poetry reading session demanding an end to the ongoing genocide in Gaza...
TENS of thousands of students, professionals and ordinary people marched down the roads across Bangladesh on April 7 in response to a global call for a strike demanding an end to Israeli genocide in Gaza and, also, condemning US complicity amidst an expanding offensive in the Palestinian city. Educational institutions, chiefly universities, have heeded the global call by...
The nation on Tuesday observed Genocide Day by remembering the victims of the genocide orchestrated by the Pakistani occupation forces on March 25, 1971 against the unarmed people of Bangladesh.
The nation is observing Genocide Day today, recalling the horrors of the genocide on March 25, 1971 committed by the Pakistani occupation army against the unarmed people of Bangladesh.
THIS is the last chapter of the genocide. It is the final, blood-soaked push to drive the Palestinians from Gaza. No food. No medicine. No shelter. No clean water. No electricity. Israel is swiftly turning Gaza into a Dantesque cauldron of human misery where Palestinians are being killed in their hundreds and soon, again, in their thousands and tens of thousands, or they will be forced out never to return...
Marking the Genocide Day, chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Monday remembered all the martyrs who laid down their lives, stressing that it was through their sacrifices that the country achieved its desired independence through a nine-month long bloody War of Liberation...
One minute symbolic blackout will be observed at the night on March 25 across Bangladesh marking Genocide Day...
SUDAN鈥橲 surprise move to institute proceedings against the United Arab Emirates before the International Court of Justice on March 5, 2025, alleging that the latter is violating certain obligations under the Genocide Convention, raises several legal challenges and uncertainties. In this case, Sudan alleges that the UAE is complicit in genocidal acts committed against the...
SINCE January 20, 2025, the world has closely watched the exchange of captives between Israel and Hamas. This ceasefire 鈥� despite its fragility and Israel鈥檚 repeated violations 鈥� took effect on January 19, 2025. It marks a critical moment that underscores the immense physical and psychological toll the genocide has inflicted on both sides. The first swap saw 3 Israelis...
The International Crimes Tribunal on Tuesday extended the deadline to April 20 for submitting investigation reports against deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and 45 others over the allegations of genocide and crimes against humanity committed during the July-August mass uprising...
鈥橲 hard to see articles about the 鈥榤ove fast and break things鈥� approach of the Trump administration without also hearing about the hovering presence the world鈥檚 richest man, technocrat extraordinaire Elon Musk. The mainstream media likes to describe Musk primarily as an oligarch. His involvement 鈥� which now includes having a desk in the...
GAZA is a wasteland of 50 million tons of rubble and debris. Rats and dogs scavenge amid the ruins and fetid pools of raw sewage. The putrid stench and contamination of decaying corpses rises from beneath the mountains of shattered concrete. There is no clean water. Little food. A severe shortage of medical services and hardly any habitable...
EARLIER on January 8, I saw a prominent Zionist commentator and X (formerly Twitter) user post, 鈥楬as Greta Thunberg taken her keffiyeh off to address the fires in LA yet or are there too many Jews living here for her to be concerned?鈥� The weird implications about a mythical anti-Semitic malice that climate activist Greta Thunberg has to supposedly fuel...
JOE Biden鈥檚 parting gift of $8 billion in weapons sales to the apartheid state of Israel acknowledges the gruesome reality of the genocide in Gaza. This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. This is a permanent, endless war designed not to destroy Hamas, or free Israeli hostages, but to eradicate, once and for all, Palestinians in Gaza and...
