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the role and place of the media in the Shahbag protests. Helping us to gain a deeper understanding are the photographer and writer Shahidul Alam, Sabir Mustafa of the BBC Bengali Service and Abbas Faiz from Amnesty International

Jamaat-Shibir and their devotees (their tamed mass-media and their whole network of supporters) have returned. Their terrorism keeps taking more extreme forms. In the old and familiar manner. From the country’s national flag to the Shaheed Minar and even the country’s map and the common people have all by now become targets of their ruthless attacks, just like their very visible target is the Shahbagh movement itself.

Many attacks on civilians by the Bodu Bala Sena have been reported, including attacks on the places of worship belonging to other religions. The Bodu Bala Sena has become the expression of the widespread lawlessness in the country.

Hauled off buses, targeted in their clinics, on boulevards, in alleys, in shops, in offices, in processions and pilgrimages, is there any place left safe for Shias in Pakistan?

Dams, Rivers & People, Feb-Mar 2013 Vol 11, Issue 1-2 (pdf file 2.8 mb) INDEX Page No How is 2012-13 Drought in Maharashtra worse than the 1972 one? 1 Another sop for Mah Sugar Industry 6 Maharashtra’s Sugar Shackles 7 Vertebrate fauna of the Chambal River Basin, particularly in the NCS 10 No More Mini Hydel Projects in Karnataka Western Ghats 13 Dam Decommissioning as an Environmental Priority 14 Box: Experience from Penobscot River, USA 20 Anti Dam protests in Tawang, Arunachal (…)