Manzoor Hasan

After a month of corona-induced lockdown, Bangladesh’s infection rates and death records are proportionally still lower than many other countries, according to official data.

A friend enquired whether the four horsemen of death, famine, war and conquest are anywhere to be seen given the current pestilence followed by the recent fires, floods and exodus of millions.

In “Dhaka, Ottawa and The Hague: Rohingya Convergence” (The Daily Star, April 19), I referred to the legal process commenced by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in relation to the arrival of the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.

On April 4, 2018, the Canadian prime minister's special envoy to Myanmar, Bob Rae, released a report entitled “Tell them we're human: What Canada and the world can do about the Rohingya crisis.” The report investigates the humanitarian crisis as a result of the recent exodus of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar into Bangladesh. It focuses on four themes: the need to combine principle and pragmatism in responding to the serious humanitarian crisis

'Pundits' are giving sophisticated ideological interpretations, and no doubt there is much value to this and is necessary. But is there a more down-to-earth explanation that we are ignoring? The long arms of ISIS and Al Qaeda have reached Bangladesh, and there is certainly some truth in this.