Bangladesh hangs Chowdhury and Mujahid over 1971 war crimes
Two Bangladesh opposition leaders have been executed for war crimes committed during the 1971 independence struggle against Pakistan.
Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury and Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid were hanged in Dhaka's central jail.
They were convicted of genocide and rape - charges they denied.
Chowdhury has been an influential politician - he was elected MP six times. Mujahid was a top leader of Bangladesh's largest Islamist party.
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said they were hanged after President Abdul Hamid rejected appeals for clemency by the two men.
However, family members have dismissed reports that the men had made any such appeals, which would have also required admissions of guilt.
"My father said he did not seek any mercy," Chowdhury's son, Humam Qauder Chowdhury, told AFP news agency, after meeting his father for the last time hours before his execution. "He has always said he's innocent."
Eagles of Death Metal star: 'One kid survived by hiding under my jacket'
Jesse Hughes, lead singer of band playing at the Bataclan in Paris when terrorists opened fire, says ‘so many people put themselves in front of people’The lead singer of rock back Eagles of Death Metal has told how the Paris terrorists killed fans hiding in the band’s dressing room at the Bataclan theatre.
In an emotional interview with Vice, Jesse Hughes, 43, described how just one person in the room survived – by hiding under the vocalist’s leather jacket.
Eighty-nine of the Paris attacks’ 130 deaths were at the band’s concert on 13 November 13 where Islamist gunmen fired into the crowd. More than 100 more were injured.
Vice released a short clip of an interview by its founder Shane Smith with Hughes and band co-founder Josh Homme, the frontman of Queens of the Stone Age, ahead of the full interview being released.
Republican presidential candidates sound as if they’re declaring war on Muslims of every hue - and are in danger of play into jihadists’ hands
Out of America: Their reaction to the Paris attacks is exactly the sort of clash of civilisations that will allow Isis to thrive
Here are two directly related thoughts about America in the wake of the ghastly Islamic State (Isis) attacks in Paris. First, Republican scaremongering about Syrian refugees is not only a disgrace to the US and everything the country likes to think it stands for, but actually plays into the hands of the terrorist proto-state. Second, steel yourself to the fact that Donald Trump may well be the party’s presidential nominee next year.
Why is it that the US can part company with sanity on such occasions? Remember how Jews fleeing Nazi Germany in the late 1930s were kept out on the grounds they might be communists. Or how Japanese-Americans were rounded up and interned during the Second World War; or how the country fell for McCarthyism and the Red Scare in the early Cold War. Here we go again.
Rational Monster: How Terror Fits into Islamic State's Plan
By Christoph Reuter
Analysts falsely believed Islamic State was too weak to carry out terror attacks abroad. But IS views terror as a means to an end -- and will launch attacks as long as they continue to serve its broader strategy.
"It was a terrible night. We heard the roar of the jets, the detonations. Then, the power suddenly went out and everything sunk into darkness," the young woman on the phone says. She said that she could only see the flashes from the explosions, with one bomb landing right near where she was. "But I don't want to die after all that we have already gone through here."
The woman is from Raqqa, where Islamic State has its headquarters in Syria. She lives there together with her parents and brothers. Still. As do so many other civilians. On the phone, she was describing the first wave of attacks in the "war" that French President François Hollande declared against Islamic State following the attacks in Paris. The bombs dropped by French fighter jets hit both used and abandoned IS bases, the former army camp of Bashar Assad's Division 17, the polyclinic, the horse racetrack and a main power cable. The woman's brother is a taxi driver, and he witnessed numerous injured fighters being brought to the hospital, which had been closed to civilians.
22 Nov, 2015
To build world-class startups, girls just wanna have funds
A few days after Women's Entrepreneurship Day, TOI finds that gender isn't a barrier to starting up, but finding the right staff remains a challenge. And if there's one change female entrepreneurs want, it is to see more women entering the ecosystem.
Bangladesh hangs Chowdhury and Mujahid over 1971 war crimes
1 Men don't have to make as many adjustments as we do
"The world has changed and people around me have never made me think about gender. I am fortunate to be in such a position," says Reddy, who received funding for her startup when she was 23 from one of the top venture capital firms, Accel Partners. Her firm sells several celebrity apparel brands, apart from accessories and memorabilia.Reddy returned to India to start her own business after interning at a boutique investment bank in London for a year. "The biological cycle makes it imperative for women to make adjustments in their careers. These are adjustments men don't have to make, and that is why we don't see many women at senior levels. Hence, women don't have many inspirational entrepreneurs to look up to," says Reddy, who believes women make better salespeople.
She is hopeful the infrastructure for women to work after childbirth will improve with companies providing flexible working hours.
Opinion: Encryption makes us more secure, not less
Instead of pushing to diminish tools that are meant to protect modern communications and safeguard speech, our leaders should work toward lasting solutions that can actually thwart terrorism.
Beirut, the West Bank, and Mali. Each of those people were robbed of a lifetime of possibilities. Every life should be celebrated, and every death will be mourned. These victims, and the loved ones they left behind, deserve better than the shallow reactions that many of our law and policymakers are offering in lieu of real leadership, on both sides of the Atlantic.
Terrorism cannot be tolerated. But neither should we tolerate those in power capitalizing on mass violence – and the fear it is designed to incite – to undermine our rights.
Even before the dust has settled to verify facts, several politicians have blamed the Paris attacks on citizens' growing demands for privacy more generally, and on the use of encryption tools more specifically. Without citing evidence, some suggest that the terrorists were able to carry out these horrifying acts because they have the capacity to use encrypted channels to communicate. Their logic is that if we weaken encryption, we can stop terrorism.
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