Bangladeshi journalist gets LISA award on `RAW and Bangladesh`
Released on = June 23, 2007, 10:21 pm
Press Release Author = Zainal Abedin
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Press Release Summary = The 270-page book detailed how RAW enters in all walks of Bangladesh society and pulls it from behind the back to grab it finally. The book also uncovered India\'s role in assassinating Sheikh Mujbur Rahman and Gen. Ziaur Rahman, the two popular Presidents of Bangladesh. Abedin, a vocal critic of India\'s hegemonic activities in the region, entered journalism in 1972 through \'The Dainik Bangladesh\'. Presently he is the editor of a Bengali weekly magazine \'Ekaler Katha.\'
Press Release Body = Bangladeshi journalist gets LISA award on \'RAW and Bangladesh\'
DHAKA, Jun 19, (APP): A Bangladeshi journalist and researcher Md. Zainal Abedin gets LISA (London Institute of South Asia) Annual Book Award this year (2007) for his book \"RAW And Bangladesh\", published in 1995. In a letter LISA, a London-based research organisation that stands for liberty, democracy and human rights, informed Mr. Abedin, \"This award is given to a book that made a difference. That difference usually constitutes belated recognition. In your case, that is indeed so.\" The award will be conferred on him in London in mid-July next. Abedin have already authored nine books and hundreds of features and articles, both in Bengali and English.
\'RAW And Bangladesh\' perhaps is the first book research-oriented book outside India that uncovers the covert and overt ugly activities of \'RAW\' (Research and Analysis Wing), the notorious intelligence agency of India, well before and after the emergence of Bangladesh in 1971.
The 270-page book detailed how RAW enters in all walks of Bangladesh society and pulls it from behind the back to grab it finally.
The book also uncovered India\'s role in assassinating Sheikh Mujbur Rahman and Gen. Ziaur Rahman, the two popular Presidents of Bangladesh.
Abedin, a vocal critic of India\'s hegemonic activities in the region, entered journalism in 1972 through \'The Dainik Bangladesh\'. Presently he is the editor of a Bengali weekly magazine \'Ekaler Katha.\'
Some of his celebrated major books are: Ek Nadi Rakta (1971), Rajnititay Shrene Sangkat (1972), Zia Hattar Nepathya (1987), India Needs Veto Power? (1993), RAW And Bangladesh (1997), Parbatiya Chottogram Sharup Shandan (1997), Chittagong Hill Tracts: A Victim of Indian Intervention (2003), Human Rights Violation in CHT: Myth and Reality (2005).
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