26-11-2016 Daily Star Vocabulary

###- Regime Assault on Aleppo: Civilian toll mounts as army advances.....(back page)

1. Regime Assault - শাসক (কর্তৃক) হামলা

2. Civilian toll mounts - বেসামরিক হত্যা বাড়ছে

3. pounding - নিষ্পেষণ

4. regime bombardment - সরকার কর্তৃক গোলাবর্ষণ

5. artillery fire - কামান গোলা

6. ally - মিত্র(friend, pard,aide)

7. Retaliatory - প্রতিশোধমূলক

8. extricate civilians - বেসামরিক নাগরিকদের মুক্ত

9. desperate condition - অসহায় অবস্থা

10. humanitarian taskforce - মানবিক কার্যনির্বাহী দল

###- World's silence perpetuates genocide......(

editorial)

1. perpetuate - চিরস্থায়ী করা

2. ethnic cleansing - জাতিগত নির্মূল

3. persecution and hardship - নিপীড়ন ও কষ্ট

4. inconceivable way - ধারণাতীত উপায়

5. hollow silence - শুন্য নীরবতা

6. condemnation - নিন্দা

7. feeble few - দুর্বল কিছু

8. offered succour - ত্রাণের প্রস্তাব

FULL EDITORIAL......

World's silence perpetuates genocide

Stop ethnic cleansing of Rohingyas

One needs only to wonder what horrific extremities of persecution and hardship can push people to flee their homelands, to try every inconceivable way to be allowed on other shores. And yet, the ethnic persecution of Rohingyas in Myanmar, denial of their rights and refusing to deem them as citizens only rings forth as a hollow silence on the world stage. This newspaper, in a news analysis published yesterday, called it a genocide in progress.

We are horrified by the muteness of the international community. Where is the condemnation, the words of protest, except the feeble few that we have heard? We stand shocked, as Rohingyas continue to be killed and raped. What other word than genocide can describe it, when it is obvious that it is a systematic targeting of an ethnic minority that continues unabated? And loudest silence in the midst of this is that of Nobel peace prize winner, Aung San Suu Kyi.

Rohingya men, women and children continue to take great risks in trying to cross into Bangladesh. We believe it is our humanitarian duty to give them refuge, to do whatever a country like ours can to not add further to their despair. Yes, there are security and financial constraints that need to be vetted, but we cannot, on principle turn a blind eye either. Bangladesh has offered succour in the past, and continues to do so, with all its constraints.

Having said that, we also believe that whatever humanitarian effort we undertake cannot be the solution. Myanmar cannot on account of this continue to persecute and push these people out of the country that they have known to be theirs for centuries. The international community must wake up. The UN and the West need to take a stand, otherwise, it is genocide that their silence perpetuates.