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Published: 24 Feb 2021 03:35 AM BdST
Updated: 24 Feb 2021 11:11 AM BdST Indian High Commissioner Vikram Doraiswami speaking at a discussion organised by Indian Media Correspondents Association on Bangabandhu and Bangladesh-India ties at the National Press Club in Dhaka on Tuesday, Feb 23, 2021. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove Information Minister Hasan Mahmud speaking at a discussion organised by Indian Media Correspondents Association on Bangabandhu and Bangladesh-India ties at the National Press Club in Dhaka on Tuesday, Feb 23, 2021. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove Indian High Commissioner Vikram Doraiswami speaking at a discussion organised by Indian Media Correspondents Association on Bangabandhu and Bangladesh-India ties at the National Press Club in Dhaka on Tuesday, Feb 23, 2021. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove
Stripping Zia of Bir Uttam title: We will now look into the legal aspects, says Muktijoddha Council
A probe body of Jatiya Muktijoddha Council will meet soon to look into the legal aspects of revoking gallantry awards given to late president Ziaur Rahman and killers of Bangabandhu and their patronisers.
The council at a meeting on Tuesday decided in principle to revoke the gallantry awards of Zia and self-declared four killers of Bangabandhu - Shariful Haq Dalim, Nur Chowdhury, Rashed Chowdhury, and Mosleh Uddin.
Zia, the four others, and their families would not get any state facilities for their role in the country s Liberation War, the council decided.
Freedom Fighters Must Prove They Are Muktijoddhas?
Syed Badrul Ahsan
3rd January, 2021 01:01:01
Close to half a century after the end of the War of Liberation, a good number of our reputed freedom fighters have been asked to submit documents testifying to their participation in the war. That is pretty interesting, not to say intriguing. One can only wonder at the sense of history in the men who, in the infinity of their wisdom, decided that illustrious and reputed freedom fighters like Haroon Habib, writer, researcher, historian and secretary general of the Sector Commanders Forum; Sadruzzaman Helal Bir Protik; Rezaul Karim, founder vice president of the Muktijoddha Central Council; Nayeem Jahangir, first secretary general of the Muktijoddha Central Council; and Engineer Afsar, wartime commander of liberation forces in Chittagong, needed to come up with evidence that they did indeed wage war in defence of the national cause back in 1971.
Let Our Public Intellectuals Speak for Us Abroad
Syed Badrul Ahsan
20th December, 2020 11:34:01
Bangladesh’s history needs to go out to the world. With the nation preparing to observe the fiftieth anniversary of independence next year, it is important that we reach out to the world beyond our frontiers - to inform nations abroad of the defining circumstances which led us into the struggle for freedom as also the impediments we came up with in post-liberation times.
There is a vital need to re-educate, to enlighten once again the world with the chronicle of our political history. And then there is the heritage, the cultural narrative which certainly underpins that history. We have, here at home, focused extensively on the conditions which led, close to half a century ago, to freedom. But, of course, with history being a field of ceaseless research, there is ample scope for probing the reasons for our struggle, the hindrances we confronted in our long struggle for self-expressio