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Congressional briefing on Bangladesh
Dr. Richard L. Benkin
If the Bangladeshi representatives to last week’s Congressional briefing on Bangladesh were listening closely, they would have noted that the session contained two distinct but related messages for them and the leadership in Dhaka. The first is that of growing momentum in Washington to link tens of millions of dollars in US aid with progress on issues of human rights; that’s concrete actions and not merely words. The Bangladeshi leadership has often provided the United States with effusive assurances that it was ending the admittedly false persecution of journalist Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, putting a halt to the oppression of minorities, and taking action on other human rights issues; only to fail miserably in going beyond their words. Mere words no longer mollify an increasingly frustrated United States.
William-Mary reveals truth
Blitz Exclusive
Neither Mary Mondol nor William Nicholas Gomes were known to anyone in the world, even before a few weeks, if their case was not picked up from the website on an NGO by Canada’s fastest growing news network Canada Free Press [CFP]. The story in brief was, “A mother’s testimony is serving as one starker reminder of the severity of Christian persecution in Bangladesh.
Murdered Lebanese can thank UN
Dr. Richard L. Benkin
The sound of war was heard in the Middle East again this week—and it was not by any means the first time that Israel was not one of the parties involved.
Livni: The next Israeli PM?
M Ali Ahsan
According to many, Israel’s Foreign Minister, Tzipi Livni is a rising star in country’s political arena, who is seen by many of the international and Israeli analysts as the next Prime Minister of the only democratic nation in the Arab world.