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Mujibnagar govt leaders still recognised as freedom fighters: adviser

Adviser to the Ministry of Liberation War Affairs Farooq-e Azam on Wednesday said that the media news about revoking the recognition of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the four national leaders and the other leaders of the Mujibnagar Government as freedom fighters was not true...

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News of revoking Mujibnagar govt members’ FF status not true: Govt

Bangladesh interim government in a statement on Wednesday confirmed that the news published in various media and social media regarding the cancellation of the recognition of the leaders of the Mujibnagar government as ‘freedom fighters’ during the Liberation War, ‘is not true’.

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Contexts of liberation war — II

IS RELIGIOUS and national identity mutually exclusive? Not if their roles are clearly stated. Aeons ago, faith was the primary identity of all societies. State and religion were indivisible. As a result, over a long period, both became corrupt, though at different stages of evolution of each. In the modern age with the birth of nations, state and religion separated with...

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Contexts of liberation war – I

THE instant response of most to the question in the title would be, ‘We had no choice but to fight for our survival and liberate our country from the Pakistani military occupation.’ It’s correct but incomplete because people do not plunge into a war on a whim unless it was brewing over quite some time. By sheer determination we instinctively resisted the armed assault...

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Azhar’s death sentence overturned

The Appellate Division on Tuesday overturned its 2019 judgement that had upheld the death sentence of Jamaat-e-Islami leader ATM Azharul Islam for crimes against humanity and genocide committed during the 1971 liberation war...

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SC overturns death sentence of Jamaat leader Azhar in war crimes case

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned its previous verdict that had upheld the death sentence of Jamaat-e-Islami leader ATM Azharul Islam for crimes against humanity and genocide committed during the 1971 Liberation War in Bangladesh...

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War crimes accomplices must apologise: Mahfuj

Information adviser Mahfuj Alam has called for a political reckoning over the legacy of the 1971 Liberation War, demanding a formal  apology from the war crimes collaborators and said that the pro-Awami League left-leaning parties must not go unpunished.

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Azhar’s lawyer questions war crimes trial fairness

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Tuesday adjourned until May 8 the hearing on a petition filed by condemned war criminal and Jamaat-e-Islami leader ATM Azharul Islam seeking a review of the court’s earlier decision upholding his death sentence...

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Mujibnagar Govt internationally recognised, constitutional: adviser

Liberation war affairs adviser Faruk-e-Azam has said that the Mujibnagar government is an internationally recognised and constitutional government as it has organised the country’s liberation war and helped establish relations with international communities. ..

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US passion for tariffs rarely pays off, economists warn

Long before Donald Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ announcement, the United States had toyed with imposing high tariffs throughout its history, with inconclusive—and sometimes catastrophic—results...

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BETWEEN UNIFORMS AND WORDS: Struggle for democratic soul, shaped by 1971

NINETEEN seventy-one arrived, not as a year, but as a violation, a savage tear in the thin skin of what we dared call life. I was a child, a splinter of a being, four years old, yet the tremors of that brutal rending still reverberate in the hollow spaces of my bones. They call it the Liberation War, a tidy phrase for a messy, monstrous thing. It was the air we choked on, thick with...

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Shishu Park must open its door to children

THE Dhaka Shishu Park has been closed for children since 2019 for renovation and is unlikely to open its doors by 2026. The modernisation plan, initially taken by the liberation war affairs ministry at a cost of Tk 265.44 crore for the Liberation Monument project in Suhrawardy Udyan, was supposed to begin in January 2018...

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National teachers’ day for Shamsuzzoha

ON THIS day in 1969, Professor Dr Syed Mohammad Shamsuzzoha of Rajshahi University was shot and killed by the Pakistani military. Despite extensive discourse on the liberation war and Bangladesh’s post-independence political landscape, the 1969 mass uprising remains relatively underexplored. Professor Zoha was the first martyr of that movement, his sacrifice...

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Shibir slammed for anti-liberation publication

The leaders of different students’ organisations on Wednesday said that the Bangladesh Islami Chhatra Shibir, the student wing of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, must apologise for anti-liberation statements in an article in the December issue of its monthly publication, Chhatra Sangbad...

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BOAT ADRIFT: AL’s journey through power and paradox – III

HASINA’S return to power in 2008 was not just the return of a leader; it was the return of something darker, more insidious. As the caretaker government retreated quietly, she swiftly reasserted control over every arm of the state, her will bending institutions like pliable clay. The dream of democracy, nurtured with such care in the days following the...

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BOAT ADRIFT: AL’s journey through power and paradox – I

BANGLADESH, a nation forged in the crucible of its 1971 liberation war, now sees its legacy of sacrifice and identity increasingly distorted into a tool for political spectacle. Over the last 16 years, the Awami League government under Sheikh Hasina has leaned heavily on emotional rhetoric and symbolic gestures to cement their authority. This reliance on...

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Mass Uprising Day today

The historic ‘Mass Uprising Day’, commemorating the 1969’s movement for autonomy from the then East Pakistan that eventually led to the Liberation War and the emergence of Bangladesh in 1971, will be observed on Friday in a befitting manner...

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TRUMP POLICY SHIFTS: Bangladesh treads tightropes

THE Trump presidency has significantly shaped the trajectory of US-Bangladesh relations, departing from traditional diplomacy and ushering in a transactional foreign policy approach. Under Trump’s leadership, US foreign policy pivoted away from multilateral engagements, focusing instead on bilateral dealings driven by immediate strategic interests...