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Enemy Property Laws in Bangladesh: Grabbing the lands under the guise of legislation

Synopsis

The law of enemy property has a long and complex history in Bangladesh. Although it originated from the emergency laws promulgated during the India-Pakistan war in 1965, its legacy continued in independent Bangladesh till recent years. The law, however, did not itself encourage any encroachment of property rights; rather it has been misused by different political regimes, to legalise the unlawful benefits accrued to influential land grabbers under the pretext of enemy property. This study, through a historical review, draws a legal analysis of how the process of taking over enemy properties by the government authorities had no legal justification and was used merely as a technique to deprive religious and indigenous minorities, of their lawful property rights. The study also scrutinises the present law, which promises to return the properties and attempts to look into the reasons behind its failure to make effective returns to the lawful owners.

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About the speaker

Taslima Yasmin is currently working as an Assistant Professor at the University of Dhaka. She is pursuing her PhD at the Brunel University, London. She completed her LLB and LLM from the University of Dhaka and a consecutive LLM from the University College London (UCL), UK under the Chevening scholarship program.
She has significant number of publications in both international and national journals on topics ranging from access to justice, labor safety standards, domestic violence, acid violence laws and illegal land grabbing in the context of Bangladesh. As recognition of her extraordinary research, she won the prestigious University Grants Commission Research Award back in 2012. Since the early years of her career, Ms. Yasmin also had been actively engaged with a number of national and international philanthropic organizations.

Taslima Yasmin
The Department of Law at the University of Dhaka

Time and date
Sunday 06 June 2016, 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm

Venue
Room no. 1002, Department of Law, University of Dhaka

 


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