Mutiny that became a massacre

A crazy, scary past week for Dhaka:
For about five hours, bullets whizzed over rooftops and the occasional thud of mortar rounds echoed along the strangely empty streets.
Dhaka is one of the most congested cities on the planet, but for once there were no traffic jams.
Instead the army had planted rows of anti-aircraft cannons at key [...]

Abdul Bari had run out of luck

My research for a recent article on the campaign to try the perpetrators of atrocities committed during Bangladesh’s war of independence in 1971, took me to the second-hand book section of New Market – dozens of tiny stalls, each with a random collection of discarded and damp books and magazines, piled up to their metal sheet [...]