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About William

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Nicholas_Gomes

Biography

[edit] Early life and education

William Nicholas Gomes was born on 25 December, 1985 in Dhaka. He obtained a Diploma in Human Rights from Dhaka International University.

[edit] Career

He introduced himself as a filmmaker in 2007 with the short film Rohosoya (Mystery). He has produced several short films, including Mallaun Na Manush (Human or Non Muslim), which was shown in an international conference in Kolkata in 2009 and received praise. In his short films, he tried to frame the persecution of religious and ethic minorities in Bangladesh.

He is the executive director of a small human rights organization, Christian Development Alternative (CDA). William Nicholas Gomes was threaten by Islamic militants in the past and some of his co-workers were forced to leave the country.

[edit] Work

He took special courage to talk openly about the extra judicial killings by the law enforcement agencies, specially by Elite force Rab in Bangladesh openly by military backed interim government openly. And talk on press conference ,also he also talked the minority repression major print and electronic media, TV channel covered that widely. [1]

William Gomes send news for famous news agency asianews.it [2]. His news for Asia news was highly quoted by different media including christian today. [3] [4]

He writes for Countercurrents.org. Countercurrents.org came online on 27th March 2002. It is founded and edited by Binu Mathew. It is financed fully by voluntary reader subscription. In the truest spirit of independent internet journalism, we believe that whatever news, views and analysis given out from countercurrents should be independent in the truest sense of the word and free of biases. That's why we don't seek corporate sponsors; no banner advertising; no pop-up ads; no selling or renting of our mailing lists and no foundation donations. [4]

He is trying to confront the Terrorism in Global ,specially in Sub continent. For this he is lobbying with different diplomats. [5]

UPI Asia.com is a venue of news and commentary dedicated to the furtherance of public conversation about the politics and culture of Asia, and the building of bridges between peoples and cultures. Here you will find a "big tent" with diverse opinions.

He is also the Bangladesh Bureau Chief for Modern Ghana. He coordinates the Bangladesh operation. He heads the advertising and promotion department and also sends news written by him and also from freelances sources.

[edit] External Links

* His Reports for Asia news
* William Gomes writes to Afghan minister
* Article of William Gomes on Modern Ghana

1.http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?idCategory=33&idsub=122&id=20268&t=Bangladesh%3A+armed+Muslim+gangs+against+Christians 2.http://www.energypublisher.com/article.asp?id=20268

[edit] Filmography

* Rohosoya / Mystery (2007)
* Murder in the name of Allah
* Ojona Gontobbo / Unknown Destination
* Mallaun Na Manush / Human or Non Muslim

[edit] Notes

1. ^ Daily Star article on William Gomes
2. ^ [1]
3. ^ [2]
4. ^ [3]

Recent stories by William

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A catholic priest of love for love

Fr.Shorot Francis Gomes, the vice rector of Holy Spirit major seminary under archdiocese of Dhaka who is also an Ecclesial priest of Worldwide Marriage Encount(Read)

Published July 05, 2010

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Detained editor facing sedition charge brought to court

A national daily, the now closed "Amar Desh" is close to the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party. Earlier Police detained the editor, Mahmudur Rahman who i(Read)

Published July 04, 2010

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Ameer-e-Jamaat Maulana Motiur Rahman Nizami

Prominent Islamic leader of Bangladesh , IJammat chief Maulana Matiur Rahman Nizami who is now in police remand accused on his involvement in vandalism and as(Read)

Published July 04, 2010

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Dhaka University is celebrating its 89th anniversary

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Published July 01, 2010

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Mahmudur Rahman sourrounded by police

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Published June 30, 2010

Recent comments on William 's stories

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Megan A commented on "Love, sex and the position of women in Bangladesh" (2 months ago)

Well everything is a lot more controlled with Islam. This is for the best because we don't have kids giving birth at young age because they accidentally got pregnant. Also sexual desires only mess with our children emotions and impair their ability to concentrate on more important things such as school. Also we don't have all these teenage relationships and <a href="http://www.datingwebsites.org">dating websites</a>, etc. It's different but that is for the best.

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Beth Potter commented on "Bangladesh: Justice delayed and denied" (7 months ago)

This is a good analysis on an interesting topic of universal interest. You have a nice writing style, and, in this case, I think the chronology of events works pretty well.
Unfortunately, UPI.com usually does not run analysis pieces.
If you would like to rewrite this in more of a news feature format, maybe comparing these executions to others around the world. (Try Human Rights Watch for statistics on government executions, for example) it probably would be a good candidate to run on the wire.
Thanks!

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Sohag commented on "Love, sex and the position of women in Bangladesh" (7 months ago)

I love this Author and agree with him 100% and Muslim or w/e, how can people believe in God and hurt his creation like that. That proves either you do not believe in God or you do not know anything about GOD.

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Ted Iliff commented on "The man behind the Islamic Democratic Party" (9 months ago)

This is a commentary, not analysis. It has many statements lacking attribution, and some of the allegations without supporting sources are contrary to the fundamentals of journalism.

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zuhair commented on "Beauty a curse in Bangladesh" (10 months ago)

why the hell r u dragging Islam and our prophet into this.....
according to to the statistics in ur perfect country america number of women getting raped is highest in the world

William Gomes

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Location: Dhaka Bangladesh Bangladesh

Birthday: Dec 12, 1985 (24)

Joined: Sep 12, 2009

Blog/Web site: www.williamgomes.org

Twitter: persecutionbd

Skype: william.gomes9

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Human rights , Government and politics, security,

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