Bangladesh, Oct. 30 -- Inever had the privilege of meeting freedom fighter Manik Pashari, who has just died at 87. So, I looked him up on the Internet. Here is what I found.

"Manik Pashari (1939 - October 24, 2026) was a Bangladeshi gazette-listed freedom fighter, complainant, and a key prosecution witness in the high-profile war crimes trial against the late Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delwar Hossain Sayedee." Indeed, he was a central figure in the International Crimes Tribunal-1 as a plaintiff and crucial state witness against Delwar, who faced charges of crimes against humanity. "Based partly on the testimonies presented, Sayedee was initially sentenced to death in 2013, a sentence the Supreme Court later commuted to life imprisonment. Fo...