Israeli soldiers torture a one-year-old child in Gaza, including burning his leg with a cigarette and inserting a nail into his leg, according to a report, to pressure his father to make confessions
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I was on a flight from Dhaka to Chittagong.
Seems like whole of Bangladesh is covered by water right now! Never seen anything like this!
India has created an artificial flood in Bangladesh by releasing water from its dams.
#FloodInBangladesh#IndiaOut#BoycottIndia#ShameOnIndia
🚨 #India opened a dam with no prior warning and has now flooded half of #Bangladesh devastating the country and displacing thousands.
#BangladeshFlood2024
At least 13 people have been killed and 4.5 million affected by floods triggered by heavy rains in eastern Bangladesh — in pictures https://t.co/hFVuHRll4P
🚨 BANGLADESHI CHILD DONATES UMRAH SAVINGS TO FLOOD VICTIMS
“I can do Umrah later, let the flood victims live first!”
This 10-year-old child donated his money he saved for Umrah to help the flood victims in #Bangladesh.
#PrayForBangladesh#BangladeshFlood2024
#Bangladesh: India's Reckless Actions Are Worsening the Flood Crisis in Southeast Bangladesh
For the first time in generations, Bangladesh's entire southeastern region is facing its worst flooding in history affecting millions of people. The cause? Indian authorities opened the gates of the Dumbur Reservoir in Tripura for the first time in three decades, releasing massive volumes of water into an already rain-soaked region.
(Read: https://t.co/Cnp1TjrTxE}
Could there have been flooding without India opening the Dumbur Reservoir gates? Perhaps yes, but on a significantly smaller scale. The sudden release of water from the dam has inundated the region to an extent it hasn't experienced in generations.
International law obliges India to notify Bangladesh of any actions that could cause significant harm downstream. Yet, India's failure to notify Bangladesh before opening the gates has caused significant distress and damage.
Unfortunately, the Dumbur Reservoir is just one of many dams India has built on the rivers that flow into Bangladesh. Of the 54 transboundary rivers shared between the two countries, India has constructed dams on at least 30 of them, with the Farakka Dam being the most infamous for its catastrophic impact on northern Bangladesh.
India's unilateral construction of dams and its arbitrary control of water flows have become a constant threat to Bangladesh, causing either drought or flooding downstream. This reckless behavior has devastated millions of lives and wreaked havoc on the environment. For example, over 80% of Bangladesh's 20 million small farmers depend on water flowing through these transboundary rivers to grow rice. (Source: https://t.co/t0Fo6jP5bP)
By inflicting such widespread damage, India is effectively breaching international law on a regular basis. Here are some of the key obligations that India is failing to uphold:
1) Under Articles 5 and 6 of the UN Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses (1997), upstream and downstream countries have the right to equitably and reasonably utilize shared waters.
2) Article 7 of the 1997 Convention, along with customary international law, obliges upstream countries, like India, to prevent significant harm to downstream nations, such as Bangladesh.
3) The Espoo Convention (1991) and customary international law mandate that upstream countries notify and consult with downstream states before undertaking any activities that could significantly affect shared waters.
Yet, India has consistently ignored these obligations and has never acknowledged the rights of Bangladesh and its people under international law.
Despite these hostile actions, Indian officials continue to claim that they are friendly neighbors—yet they wonder why Bangladeshis hold such deep resentment against them.
Is India truly a friendly neighbor to Bangladesh? Their actions speak louder than their words.
X (formerly Twitter) is flooded with Bangladesh related communal rumors.
In the last 4 days, Rumor Scanner team has identified at least 20 such rumors spread by Indian accounts.
In the first part of these communal rumors, a total of 10 fact-checks are provided below...
Sensible people of Bangladesh are returning the stuffs they took from Ganabhaban and advising others not to steal. They realized they made a mistake at the heat of the moment.