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A Bangladeshi nationalist mural in Dhaka (Sebastian Strangio).

The Post's own Sebastian Strangio has a piece in The Diplomat about Bangladesh's nascent efforts to address alleged atrocities committed during the country's 1971 liberation war against Pakistan. While no trial dates have been set, two leading politicians from the Islamist Jamaat-e-Islami party were arrested last month; others, including party president Motiur Rahman Nizami, were detained in June. With Jamaat's 10 million followers and its support from the Islamic world, however, some fear that the prosecutions could provoke social unrest. There is also the challenge, just as at the ECCC, of investigating events that took place decades ago. Still, many - such as Mahbub Alam, general manager of Dhaka's Liberation War Museum - are cautiously optimistic: