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Abdullah Al-Farooq

abdalf@aol.com

last contributed to D+C/E+Z in spring 2013 as retired journalist and board member of NETZ, a German civil-society organisation that specialises in development cooperation with Bangladesh.  

All articles of Abdullah Al-Farooq

War crimes
Abdullah Al-Farooq

Burdened by the past

Bangladesh’s independence war of 1971 is making itself felt in Islamist violence today

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