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Historic documents say that the anti-liberation forces called the pro-liberation forces and freedom fighters miscreants.
After a brief profile of the accused, submission by the prosecution and the defence, the three-member Tribunal-1 Chairman Justice ATM Fazle Kabir read out the 14 charges yesterday. Justice Jahangir Hossain Selim and Justice Anwarul Haque are the other two members of the tribunal.
Quasem was indicted for crimes that were committed in November and December of 1971.
Two of the charges were related to Quasem's reported involvement in the killing of eight people in Chittagong while the rest were based on his alleged involvement in abduction, confinement and torture of at least 27 people in Chittagong.
According to a charge, on Quasem's directives, members of Al-Badr picked up freedom fighter Jasim and took him to “Dalim Hotel torture centre” at Andorkilla of Chittagong. Jasim was inhumanly tortured there.
“On your [Quasem's] orders member of Al-Badr killed Jasim on the rooftop of Dalim Hotel on November 28,” the tribunal chairman said reading out the charges to Quasem. Jasim's body was thrown into the Karnaphuli river along with five other unidentified bodies.
The tribunal then read out another charge on the killing of Ranjit Das Prakash Latu and Tuntu Sen Prakash Raju.
The tribunal in the description of the incident said Jahangir Alam Chowdhury, Ranjit and Tuntu were abducted from Hazari Lane of Chittagong in November, 1971, on Quasem's orders. They were tortured at the Dalim Hotel.
“On the following day, on your instruction, Jahangir Alam Chowdhury was set free but the other two were kept detained. Later, members of Al-Badr working for you killed them and hid the bodies,” said the tribunal.
The rest of the charges include abduction, confinement and torture of Omar-ul-Islam Chowdhury, Lutfar Rahman Faruk, Jahangir Alam Chowdhury, Saifuddin Khan, Abdul Jabbar Member, Harun-or-Rashid Khan, Sanaullah Chowdhury, Nurul Kuddus, Syed Md Emran, Jakaria, Sunil Kanti Bardhan Prakash Dulal and Nasiruddin Chowdhury and others.
The tribunal yesterday passed the indictment order rejecting an adjournment petition filed by the defence.
Defence counsel Tanvir Ahmed Al-Amin sought the adjournment saying their senior counsel Abdur Razzak, now in the US, wanted to place arguments in favour of their discharge petition. “He will fly back home on Sunday and join the proceedings after lunch the same day,” he said praying the tribunal to adjourn the proceeding until then.
"Sir, please give us one more day as our senior would like to place a little submission before you indict our client," said Tanvir.
Prosecutor Simon vehemently opposed the petition and said the defence got adjournment a number of times and claimed that the International Crimes (Tribunal) Act does not allow such adjournments.
The tribunal had deferred the indictment once on the grounds of Razzaq being in the US.
The investigation agency, responsible for investigating war crimes, began its probe into the alleged war crimes of Quasem on July 26, 2010, and submitted its report to the prosecution on May 6, 2013. On May 26, the tribunal took the charges pressed by prosecution into cognisance.
Quasem was arrested on June 17, 2012, after International Crimes Tribunal-1 issued an arrest warrant against him.
THERE is no coincidence national league sporting clubs keep choosing Ballarat for a hit-out. We should start to be a little concerned if our adopted regulars started to stray. Women’s National Basketball League and A-League soccer clubs announced this week Ballarat would again host pre-season clashes next month. They really could go anywhere to give regional Victorians a taste of their game but continue to trek to Ballarat because we have exactly what they need to lay the foundations for their seasons ahead. A large part of this is a credit to our elite facilities and a key factor is our people – we can run a major sporting event well. And we should never take this for granted. This is bigger than Ballarat. Benefits from such exposure to elite sport extends into western Victoria. Our state league teams and development squads across codes draw in the best talent from as far as Ararat, Horsham, Hamilton and Warrnambool. But you could argue a similar strength for regions beyond other country cities like Bendigo and Shepparton. Bendigo Spirit and Melbourne Boomers have made an annual fixture at the Mars Minerdome for four years now in the WNBL pre-season. Each remains invested in developing the game in the region and engaging the Ballarat community. Boomber coach Guy Molloy maintains a keen interest in the game in Ballarat, where he coached the Miners and led high-performance programs at the Minerdome. For Spirit, coach Simon Pritchard has consistently made clear his club is promoting a pathway for regional talent across the state. This match could mark the return of former Rush co-captain Abbey Wehrung in her Spirit debut, having transferred from WNBL rival Canberra Capitals. While the Minerdome is no longer suited to the demands of modern professional basketball, there is the now real promise of a first-class stadium emerging in the $24 million Ballarat Sports and Events Centre redevelopment and lobbying for further enhancement, such as a state-of-the-art strength and conditioning centre and three-on-three courts. We already boast a boutique world-class soccer stadium not just frequented by A-League each pre-season, but having been the Matildas final team base before leaving for the 2016 Rio Olympics and a home to the Bahrain men’s team earlier that year for Asian Cup preparations. Reigning A-League premier Melbourne Victory will return to Ballarat Regional Soccer Facility to fine-tune their title defence – this time against Western Sydney Wanderers. This is massive for the region’s soccer community with player signings and both coaches to be as guest speakers in a special luncheon. Mars Stadium has been a big focus in Ballarat sport, and for western Victoria, for bringing AFL premiership season games to country fans. AFL has really cemented what Ballarat can offer on a big national sporting stage. But now it is important to build on this. To host A-League and WNBL once more is an incredible honour and it shows the faith for what can be possible for this city in our sporting arenas.
PATHWAY: Minderdome fans could get a chance to see former Rush co-captain Abbey Wehrung back in action in new colours, transferring WNBL clubs from Canberra (as pictured) to Bendigo.
THERE is no coincidence national league sporting clubs keep choosing Ballarat for a hit-out. We should start to be a little concerned if our adopted regulars started to stray.
Women’s National Basketball League and A-League soccer clubs announced this week Ballarat would again host pre-season clashes next month.
They really could go anywhere to give regional Victorians a taste of their game but continue to trek to Ballarat because we have exactly what they need to lay the foundations for their seasons ahead. A large part of this is a credit to our elite facilities and a key factor is our people – we can run a major sporting event well. And we should never take this for granted.
This is bigger than Ballarat. Benefits from such exposure to elite sport extends into western Victoria. Our state league teams and development squads across codes draw in the best talent from as far as Ararat, Horsham, Hamilton and Warrnambool.
But you could argue a similar strength for regions beyond other country cities like Bendigo and Shepparton.
Bendigo Spirit and Melbourne Boomers have made an annual fixture at the Mars Minerdome for four years now in the WNBL pre-season. Each remains invested in developing the game in the region and engaging the Ballarat community.
Boomber coach Guy Molloy maintains a keen interest in the game in Ballarat, where he coached the Miners and led high-performance programs at the Minerdome.
For Spirit, coach Simon Pritchard has consistently made clear his club is promoting a pathway for regional talent across the state. This match could mark the return of former Rush co-captain Abbey Wehrung in her Spirit debut, having transferred from WNBL rival Canberra Capitals.
While the Minerdome is no longer suited to the demands of modern professional basketball, there is the now real promise of a first-class stadium emerging in the $24 million Ballarat Sports and Events Centre redevelopment and lobbying for further enhancement, such as a state-of-the-art strength and conditioning centre and three-on-three courts.
We already boast a boutique world-class soccer stadium not just frequented by A-League each pre-season, but having been the Matildas final team base before leaving for the 2016 Rio Olympics and a home to the Bahrain men’s team earlier that year for Asian Cup preparations.
Reigning A-League premier Melbourne Victory will return to Ballarat Regional Soccer Facility to fine-tune their title defence – this time against Western Sydney Wanderers. This is massive for the region’s soccer community with player signings and both coaches to be as guest speakers in a special luncheon.
Mars Stadium has been a big focus in Ballarat sport, and for western Victoria, for bringing AFL premiership season games to country fans. AFL has really cemented what Ballarat can offer on a big national sporting stage.
But now it is important to build on this. To host A-League and WNBL once more is an incredible honour and it shows the faith for what can be possible for this city in our sporting arenas.
Centennial's coach nears 400 victories; Girls basketball: The next time Dave Greenberg's Eagles win, his career victories will hit a rarefied number only two other Baltimore-area coaches have achieved. Tonight may be the night.
Two days before Centennial was to would face Friendly in a Class 3A state semifinal game at UMBC two seasons ago, a reporter asked the Prince George's County team's coach about his squad. A few minutes later, the coach turned reporter.
"What can you tell me about Centennial?" asked the Friendly coach. "I really don't know too much about them."
Two hours later, the reporter asked Centennial sophomore Tia Richardson about Friendly. She knew quite a lot about her opponent.
"We have a [multi-page] scouting report," Richardson said.
Friendly came into the game averaging 66 points, but Centennial was better prepared and, not surprisingly, pulled off a 35-33 upset.
That happened two years ago, but it says everything about Centennial coach Dave Greenberg. No one prepares a team better then Greenberg, and that is one reason he will go for his 400th career victory at 7 p.m. today, when his 16th-ranked Eagles travel to Wilde Lake.
Greenberg's teams at Mount Hebron won 13 county titles, six state titles and went 323-68 in 16 seasons. Now in his fifth season at Centennial, Greenberg's teams there have a 76-31 record. In 1997, the Eagles shared the county title and were a Class 3A state finalist.
"He's very organized. He's very driven," said Mount Hebron girls coach Scott Robinson, who coached the Vikings' boys team for a time when Greenberg coached the girls' team. "The thing I remember when he was here was the relationships that he built with the kids on his team, and that the kids really believed in him and his system.
"Look what he did with girls soccer," added Robinson. "He really didn't have any experience coaching girls soccer. But he took them [Centennial] to two state championships [1994, 1995]. It showed that he's not only a great basketball coach, but just a great coach. He knows how to get the best out of his kids."
Greenberg will become the first Howard County coach and the third in the Baltimore area to reach 400 victories. The all-time area leader in coaching wins in girls basketball is Baltimore's Breezy Bishop, who was 424-40 over 25 years. She was 13-1 in her first season at Douglass and 411-39 at Western.
Pat Chance, who coached at Glen Burnie for three years and Old Mill for 22, was 415-150 at the Anne Arundel County schools before retiring last year. Her Old Mill teams won four state titles. Towson coach Bev Snyder, in her 26th season, is 396-92.
Greenberg said reaching 400 wins is "meaningful in that so few people have done it." But he quickly pointed out it is an honor that should be shared.
"It's kind of humbling, because it makes me appreciate all the great kids [who] have played for me and all the tremendous help I've had from people that have been involved in the program over the years," said Greenberg, also a Centennial guidance counselor.
"I almost feel guilty when they talk about it being my win," he continued. "It's really a cumulative effort on the part of a lot of people. It's kind of like our 400th win, not my 400th win, because there have been so many people involved in it."
Brad Rees has been an assistant coach for Greenberg for 17 years, and Jim Stromberg, now Seton Keough's coach, assisted Greenberg for 14 years.
British American Tobacco has signed a deal with Indian outsourcer Wipro for application services, as it proceeds with massive IT standardisation project.
British American Tobacco has signed a deal with Indian outsourcer Wipro for application services, as it proceeds with a project to standardise its IT.
The multi-year agreement is aimed at improving the quality and productivity of the software used in BAT’s support services, as well as cutting costs. The value of the contract was not disclosed.
Wipro will attempt to standardise processes and methodology within BAT’s application services. The services will cover the 130 countries in which BAT operates, including its headquarters in London.
BAT extensively uses SAP and Siebel software, as well as a VMware server management platform, Microsoft SQL Server for database management, and IBM Lotus Domino for email.
Ben Fourie, head of global IT services at British American Tobacco, said the deal would “facilitate better [software] integration, enable enhanced knowledge sharing and, ultimately, help us become more competitive”.
Last year, BAT signed a five-year application development deal with Accenture covering areas including finance, supply chain, sales and marketing.
The company said a year before that it had cut the number of local SAP enterprise resource systems it uses from 62 to six, removing £549 million from supply chain costs, and £13 million from annual application support and development expenditure. Using the SAP platform, it is setting up finance shared services centres in western Europe and other regions.
Paddy Gibson spoke at a Stop the Intervention Collective public meeting in April on the Northern Territory Intervention and Western Australian community closures. Gibson has lived in Alice Springs, researching the impact of the Intervention. He is a senior researcher with the Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning, University of Technology Sydney and co-editor of Solidarity magazine. This is an edited version of his speech.
The roots of the plan to close remote Aboriginal communities lie in the Intervention. The NT Intervention Stronger Futures legislation is John Howard’s Intervention rebadged by the ALP in 2011.
It is also a formal system of apartheid. In the NT apartheid is written into law — you are treated as a lesser person by virtue of your Aboriginality. It is palpable at street level.
In all town camps and on Aboriginal land alcohol is prohibited. There are big signs saying this. There are proscribed areas where alcohol is not allowed. They use this as an excuse to harass people. If police have a reasonable suspicion that alcohol is in a house, they can enter without a warrant and turn people's houses upside down.
One of the main ways you see Stronger Futures played out is raids. There are huge police incursions into communities. One example happened at activist Barbara Shaw's camp — Mount Nancy Town camp. Shaw’s brother came out against the alcohol ban and the police responded with 12 police cars and cops going through every house. This is terrifying for people in the houses, including children.
Since the election of Adam Giles's government it has become worse. Police are stationed outside every liquor store and alcohol venue. There are now up to four cops outside every supermarket that sells alcohol. It is such an overt police presence in town.
If you are Black they question you and you have to show your license. I could buy 12 cases of beer — no worries. But if you are Barbara Shaw, you are not allowed. My local IGA has alcohol available inside the store. That means the cops follow Aboriginal people into IGA to make sure they are not buying alcohol. It is so extreme. There is nothing like it elsewhere in Australia.
The NT government has now given police the power to arrest and detain people for four hours — just on suspicion that they were going to do something. So now cops are combing the town, sweeping people off the streets. What an extraordinary power to have over the Aboriginal community.
There is another part of the system that is mandatory. If you are taken to the watch house three times, you are triggered to automatically go into an alcohol remand centre. This also acts to incarcerate Aboriginal people. Instead of jobs, justice, land, doctors, they lock people up.
The NT Intervention has doubled Aboriginal incarceration. The level of incarceration of Aboriginal people is off the scale; the highest rates in Australia's history. The number of women in prison has also skyrocketed.
The other part of the NT Intervention is the income management system. In the NT 90% of people on income management are Aboriginal — about 20,000 people. It is a thoroughly racist system of control but as it has been around for so long, it is now part of the furniture. There are whole generations of kids who have grown up under this racist control.
The other aspect of the Intervention is the child protection system. Before 2007 the Child Protection system in the NT was not very extensive, certainly not on the same scale as in other states. But now there are special racially targeted child protection squads that only go to remote Aboriginal communities.
The system is like the old mission system — they ration the community, set up a racialised regime of alcohol control and a racialised child protection system. The child protection system in NT doesn’t really look at white kids. It is steeped in cultural bias and racism.
There are new permanent guardian laws being introduced into the territory. That means your child is no longer your child after he or she has been taken by child welfare. These laws will sever links between family members. Under the laws the Department only needs to send a letter to the "last known address" of the parents to let them know that the issue is going to court. It doesn't matter if the letter is received or not, or if people can't understand it. The court rules in favour of the government and the child is gone.
The NT Intervention closed the Community Development Employment Project (CDEP) programs. There used to be 7000 people on it. It provided a job and an income on top of the dole. All the productive assets that went with the CDEP program — the earth moving equipment, the road graders, community buses — were lost with the jobs.
Taking those assets away means there is no self-determination in communities. They are forcing people out of communities by starving them out. The conditions deteriorate and the people are forced away. This is what has hit the Territory. The WA community also lost many jobs and assets when CDEP closed down.
Former Labor federal Indigenous affairs minister Jenny Macklin never pulled the pin on water and power. She got rid of jobs, encouraged what the Council of Australian Governments funding agreement called “voluntary mobility to areas where more employment opportunities exist”. That was how the ALP moved people out of remote communities.
Now federal Indigenous affairs minister Nigel Scullion has said that’s it, there is no more money. But really, this money to keep the power and water on, is chicken feed. The government just granted $54 million to build police stations in seven remote communities under the federal budget. In contrast, keeping water and power going in remote SA communities will cost them just $15 million.
The national Aboriginal rights movement continues to demand increased Commonwealth funding for Aboriginal communities. That is what is needed in terms of returning some actual life into the communities. All employment programs offered by the government now are about getting people out of communities.
The motivations of the NT Intervention have always run far deeper than just mining companies wanting land. It is an existential attack on Aboriginality.
The lawmakers voted 448-197 in favor of a report recommending the launch of a so-called Article 7 procedure, which could lead to the suspension of Hungary's European Union voting rights.
BRUSSELS — European Union lawmakers voted on Wednesday to launch action against the Hungarian government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban for allegedly undermining the bloc's democratic values and rule of law. Hungary called the vote fraudulent and vowed to challenge it.
For years, Orban had been able to deflect much of the international condemnation thrown his way. Critics say that Hungary's electoral system is disproportionate; media freedoms and judicial independence are dwindling; asylum-seekers and refugees are mistreated and there are limits placed on non-governmental organizations.
Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto, echoing Orban's longtime position, called the Wednesday's vote "petty revenge" against Hungary for its tough anti-migration policies.
"This decision condemning Hungary and the Hungarian people was made because we Hungarians have demonstrated that migration in not a necessary process and that migration can be stopped," Szijjarto told reporters in Budapest.
He also claimed that the vote involved "massive fraud" since abstentions weren't counted into the final tally, which made it easier to reach the needed majority.
There were 48 abstentions, so the 448 in favor exceeded the two-thirds needed only because it was based on 645 votes. If the abstentions were counted into the final tally, there would have been a total 693 votes, so the 448 in favor wouldn't have reached two-thirds.
But Judith Sargentini, who presented the report prepared by the European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, welcomed the outcome.
"Viktor Orban's government has been leading the charge against European values by silencing independent media, replacing critical judges, and putting academia on a leash," Sargentini said. "The Hungarian people deserve better. They deserve freedom of speech, non-discrimination, tolerance, justice and equality, all of which are enshrined in the European treaties."
"This is a historic result for Hungarian citizens and for European citizens everywhere, that the European Parliament has voted by a large majority to stand up for the values we all hold dear," Sargentini said.
Several non-governmental organizations targeted by the Orban government with restrictive rules — including a special tax on activities considered as promoting immigration and the criminalization of the aiding of asylum-seekers and refugees — also hailed the vote's outcome.
"We welcome the European Parliament's decision to defend the rule of law and confront the Hungarian government's attempts to shut down civil society and independent voices in the media and academia," said Heather Grabbe, director of the Open Society European Policy Institute. "MEPs across the political spectrum have taken a historic stand in defending the EU's democratic values and the rights of its citizens."
Grabbe's organization is part of the Open Society Foundations set up by Hungarian-American billionaire and philanthropist George Soros, an ideological opponent of Orban and blamed by the Hungarian leader, along with the NGOs Soros supports, for promoting mass immigration into Europe. Soros has repeatedly denied the allegations.
The Hungarian Helsinki Committee, which offers legal aid to asylum seekers and refugees and has been a frequent target of Orban's criticism, said that the EU vote "has made it clear that illiberal democracy is against the core values of the European Union."
The move saw some members of the European People's Party bloc — of which Orban's Fidesz movement is a member — vote against their ally in Budapest.
"I have always been in favor of building bridges and I want to continue to do so, but yesterday (Tuesday) I didn't see any readiness from the Hungarian PM to make a move towards his EU partners and address our concerns," Manfred tweeted.
While Weber had called on Orban to show a willingness to compromise on some of the most high-profile issues — like an agreement being delayed by the Hungarian government for the Central European University, founded by Soros, to remain in Budapest and recent laws criminalizing the work of civic groups working with asylum-seekers and refugees — Orban remained steadfast that his policies wouldn't change.
"I have nothing to compromise about since the questions they objected to were decided by the Hungarian people," Orban said Tuesday in Strasbourg, France, after the debate in the European Parliament on the report on Hungary. "There is nothing to talk about."
"The order has arrived from Berlin and they will vote accordingly," Orban said, in reference to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose governing Christian Democratic Union is the largest party in the EPP.
Orban has insisted that all of the criticism against his government is based on Hungary's tough anti-immigration policies, which include fences built in 2015 on Hungary's southern borders with Serbian and Croatia to divert the flow of migrants and very restrictive asylum rules.
Five members of the U.S. House of Representatives held a press conference with FAIR to discuss "loopholes" in pending health care legislation that they claim will allow benefits to go to "illegal aliens."
Anyhow, why is FAIR, which wants to slow down immigration to America regardless of race or color, a hate group, when the National Council Of La Raza, which wants to inundate America with their own specific Raza, not a hate group? They certainly hate Lou Dobbs!
After a precisely calculated and perfectly executed voyage, the Mars Orbiter Mission reached its destination on September 24, 2014. The Indian Space Research Organisation, which oversaw the mission, had succeeded in doing what Russia, the United States, China, and Japan had failed to do: send an unmanned probe into orbit around Mars on the first attempt. The project’s success captured headlines worldwide, and a photograph of the cheering women on the administrative staff in the operations control room went viral on the Internet. Subsequently, articles about the female scientists and engineers who were central to the success of the project were widely published.
Perhaps never before had the participation of women in a space mission been so visible, even though women had been making fundamental computational contributions to astronomy and aeronautics for well over a century. Three recent books—Dava Sobel’s The Glass Universe, Margot Lee Shetterly’s Hidden Figures (which has also been turned into an Oscar-nominated film), and Nathalia Holt’s The Rise of the Rocket Girls—show some of what they accomplished.