António Vieira da Cruz

O artigo em baixo foi inicialmente publicado na revista The Brussels Europe Press Club Magazine nº5, de Novembro de 2015. Lusophone opportunities in the Indian Ocean by António Vieira da Cruz Por mares nunca de antes navegados Passaram ainda além da Taprobana (Luís Vaz de Camões, “Os Lusíadas”, Canto I) Portuguese presence in the Indian Ocean Portuguese is the 6 th  largest language in the world by number of native speakers and it is spoken by around 250 million people in the five continents. [1] But we might say that Portuguese culture is a tale of three oceans: the Atlantic, the Indian and the Pacific. Most of the times we hear news in Portuguese from Atlantic Brazil, Angola or Portugal; we may also think of Macau and Portuguese interactions with Pacific China or Japan; instead, I chose to write here about our relation with the Indian Ocean. By travelling through this ocean you will certainly face many people with Portuguese surnames, find Portuguese for...

Author: Wali-ur Rahman Publisher: Bangladesh Heritage Foundation Place: Dhaka, Bangladesh Year: 2011 181 pages If someone ever asks me how to understand Bangladesh better, my advice is: start by studying its International Crimes Tribunal. I would say this is perhaps the best way to know about Bangladesh contemporary history and politics. That is what happened with me. The International Crimes Tribunal in Bangladesh tells us a lot about the country’s past and present; about its independence; about its cultural, ethnic and political tensions; and about its struggle to find justice, peace and prosperity. The book “Forgotten War: Forgotten Genocide” was written in 2011 by my good friend H.E. Ambassador Wali-ur Rahman and it is an ideal tool to understand everything about these issues. From 1947 to 1971 Bangladesh was part of Pakistan and before it was under the British Raj. Bangladesh, or East Pakistan, had a very different culture and language than West Pakistan, whic...