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When the Hamoodur Rahman Commission report was published in 1974, it documented how, under the pretense of quashing a rebellion, the Pakistani Army had planned and carried out the execution of intellectuals, soldiers, officials, businessmen and industrialists, and had buried them in mass graves. The commission recommended that the Pakistani government set up a special court to further investigate misconduct by the army. This never happened, and the report remained classified for nearly three decades. Five Pakistani heads of state have visited Bangladesh since 1971 without extending a formal apology.

BBC report and also the full text of Anthony Mascarenhas’s 1971 article in the Sunday Times

On behalf of thousands of survivors of the 2002 genocidal pogrom that took place in Gujarat from February – May 2002, the Citizens for Justice and Peace expresses deep disappointment and anguish at the verdict of the Magistrate Court, Judge BJ Ganatra accepting the dismissal of serious criminal charges of criminal conspiracy against chief minister Narendra Modi and 59 others. The Supreme Court appointed Special Investigation team (SIT) had filed a closure report in this case, despite finding many of the serious allegations in the Zakia Ahsan Jafri complaint dated 8.6.2006 to be true. The Judge on 26.12.2013 accepted the closure report of the SIT.

The phenomenon of mass migration for labour from Sri Lanka to the Maldives is however a relatively new trend and is primarily the outcome of economic growth witnessed in the Maldives after 2005, an increase in rebuilding and construction activities after the devastation caused by the Tsunami in 2004, augmented foreign direct investment in the export fishing industry, and rapid development of the hospitality sector through an increase in foreign investment and government initiatives to promote the tourism industry.