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WASHINGTON, March 20 (Reuters) – The Biden administration has formally determined that violence committed against the Rohingya minority by Myanmar’s military amounts to genocide and crimes against humanity, U.S. officials told Reuters, a move that advocates say should bolster efforts to hold the junta that now runs Myanmar accountable.Secretary of State Antony Blinken will announce the decision on Monday at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, U.S. officials said, which currently features an exhibit on the plight of the Rohingya. It comes nearly 14 months after he took office and pledged to conduct a new review of the violence.Myanmar’s…

Last week, 21-year-old Biki Ali and 38-year-old Rajesh Munda were shot dead by the Assam Police. Both were rape accused, killed within a day of their arrest. The police claimed they were trying to flee custody when they were shot.At least 35 people have now been killed in police shootings since the Bharatiya Janata Party returned to power in Assam in May 2021, with Himanta Biswa Sarma at the helm. In December, Scroll.in had examined police records and found 20 of 30 people killed until then belonged to the state’s ethnic and religious minorities. The latest killings continue this trend:…

Forty-two years down the line, Marichjhapi is still seeking justice. Like the Pandits of Kashmir, these children of lesser gods have been shabbily treated and their history of genocide completely sanitised The genocide of Kashmiri Pandits has been one of the darkest phases of post-Independence India. Hundreds of Pandits were selectively killed. Their women suffered even more; they were molested and gang-raped, often in front of their own family members, including kids, and in worst cases even made to cook and eat the food laced with husband’s blood. And if this were not heinous enough, some of them were cut…

Bangladesh, who had claimed a historic victory in the first ODI against the Proteas, had won the toss and elected to bat in the second clash at the Wanderers in Johannesburg on Sunday, 20 March. READ | MORKEL JOINS BANGLADESH CAMP AHEAD OF PROTEAS SERIES However, this time around the Proteas dominated from the get-go, with Bangladesh reduced to 34-5 early on as the South African fast bowlers – led by Kagiso Rabada – made important inroads. Although Bangladesh did show some real fighting spirit, with Afif Hossain scoring an impressive 72, Rabada’s final figures of 5-39 proved to be the highlight…

The Metropolitan police was rebuked by a watchdog for conducting “unjustified” strip searches on children two years before officers performed an intrusive search on a black 15-year-old schoolgirl in a case that has sparked a racism scandal.Scotland Yard was forced to apologise last week after it emerged that the teenager, known as Child Q, was strip-searched at her school in Hackney after a teacher wrongly suspected her of carrying cannabis.An official investigation into the girl’s treatment, published on Monday, concluded that the search in December 2020 was “unjustified” and that racism was “likely” to have been a factor.The force was…

“We look forward to continuing our discussion in this regard. We also explained our position on issues like democratic practices, media freedom, labor rights and religious harmony,” he added TBS Report 20 March, 2022, 02:25 pm Last modified: 20 March, 2022, 04:05 pm Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen. Photo: Collected”> Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen. Photo: Collected Bangladesh has raised deep concern about the recent US sanctions imposed on the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and related individuals and looks forward to continuing the discussion with the Biden administration in this regard, Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen said.  “We have raised deep concern about the…

Shah had taken over the reins of the ACC in January last year from Bangladesh Cricket Board president Nazmul Hassan Shah had taken over the reins of the ACC in January last year from Bangladesh Cricket Board president Nazmul Hassan BCCI secretary Jay Shah’s tenure as president of the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) was on Saturday unanimously extended by a year at its annual general meeting here.Mr. Shah had taken over the reins of the ACC in January last year from Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) president Nazmul Hassan, making him the youngest administrator to be re-appointed as ACC president.Addressing the…

The government has released its Inclusive Britain strategy – detailing 74 actions aimed at tackling racial disparities across the country. The report, published on Wednesday (March 16), was developed in response to the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities’ controversial independent report which made 24 recommendations to tackle ethnic disparities. The Sewell report was heavily criticised last year when it effectively concluded there was no systemic racism in Britain. Minister of State for Equalities Kemi Badenoch added: “The Inclusive Britain Action Plan sets out how we are joining to tackle the racial and ethnic disparities that persist in the UK.…

In a democracy, all citizens are on the same footing in the eyes of the state in terms of freedom of religion, equality of civic rights and grant of electoral choice at the time of political contests, whether for Parliament, Assembly or local bodies. A citizen lives in three dimensions of his or her temporal existence — personal, social and political. Freedom of religion or right to worship defines the relationship of a man with his God — this is direct and totally personal and not in need of a third party intervention. Sufism paid a heavy price in its…

The incident, which took place on Friday, comes a few months following a series of attacks on minority religious places in Bangladesh that took place last October File image of VHP activists. AFP New Delhi: Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) on Saturday condemned the attack at the ISKCON Radhakanta temple in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka and urged international organisations including the UN to take cognizance of the recent attacks against Hindus in the country. “Recently, preparations for the full moon festival were going on at the famous Radhakanta temple located in Dhaka. It is very unfortunate that more than 200 Jihadis attacked…

There should be long-term steps to ensure that minorities, including Hindus, are not subjected to attacks, said ISKCON Kolkata vice president Radharamn Das. A 200-strong mob vandalised ISKCON temple in Dhaka on 17 March Vice-president of ISKCON Kolkata Radharamn Das. ANI Kolkata: The International Society For Krishna Consciousness on Saturday requested the Sheikh Hasina government in Bangladesh to take measures “to assuage the sense of insecurity among minorities” in the neighbouring country in the aftermath of a case of felling of a wall at ISKCON Radhhakanta temple in Dhaka on the eve of Dol Jatra (Holi) celebrations. However, the Bangladesh…

Tibet is facing a double assault, one through forced Sinicisation, and another with local Tibetans being restricted from speaking to non-Chinese citizens. According to Jamphel Shonu, China’s ethno-federalism model of governance began to shift towards a more rigid and assimilationist policy since the early 2010s into what scholars have called a second-generation ethnic policy. He explained that China did practice a limited preferential policy towards minorities in areas such as family planning, school enrolment, bank loans, job recruitment in minority regions, etc. “This preferential policy (Youhui Zhengce) has however never produced any strong ethnic tensions as the majority Han Chinese…