BCIM-EC could be a game changer for Bangladesh (Rupak Bhattacharjee, South Asia Monitor)

Bangladesh, China, India and Myanmar-Economic Corridor (BCIM-EC) is a sub-regional grouping that seeks to strengthen friendly cooperation among the four member nations and linking South Asia with Southeast and East Asia by establishing multimodal connectivity and harnessing economic complementaries. The four countries have agreed to build road, rail, air and waterways connecting each other, lay power transmission and oil pipelines along the corridor, promote trade and investment, alleviate poverty and enhance people-to-people contacts.

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International Crimes Tribunal in Bangladesh: Delivering justice and keeping radicalism at bay (Rupak Bhattacharjee, South Asia Monitor)

The ongoing trial of Bangladesh’s alleged war criminals initiated by Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League (AL) in 2010 has pushed the fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami, which violently resisted the country’s independence from Pakistan more than four decades back, to the corner. The party’s almost entire top leaders are either convicted or languishing in jails facing execution. In a landmark judgement on March 8, 2016, the Supreme Court upheld death sentence against front-line Jamaat leader and a business tycoon Mir Quasem Ali for committing heinous crimes during the 1971 Liberation War.

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Combating terrorism, preserving secular fabric: Bangladesh sets an example (Rupak Bhattacharjee, South Asia Monitor)

The current Awami League (AL) government in Bangladesh pursues a “zero tolerant” policy against terrorism in all its forms and manifestations. The AL government has attached top priority to the task of containing domestic and international terrorism immediately after assuming power in January 2009. At the national level, the government has initiated several legal, policy and administrative steps to combat terrorism, including its financing. The AL government knows fully well that the country requires robust legal and institutional mechanism to fight terrorism, financing of terrorism and other transnational crimes.

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(Istituto fondamentale - Asia) With China Looming, India Needs To Sustain Maritime Cooperation With Bangladesh (Rupak Bhattacharjee, South Asia Monitor)

http://www.eurasiareview.com/11082015-with-china-looming-india-needs-to-sustain-maritime-cooperation-with-bangladesh-analysis/