On 21 August 2004, several military grade grenades were hurled at an Awami League rally in Bangabandhu Avenue, Dhaka. Twenty-four leaders and activists of the Awami League and its associate bodies were killed and over 300 others suffered splinter injuries in the August 21 attack. Among the dead were Ivy Rahman, then Mohila Awami League Chief and...
Not long ago, Bangladesh had largely put chronic load-shedding behind it. Reliable electricity was no longer a daily gamble for most households and factories. Today, that modern reality has been brutally extinguished. Under the newly elected BNP government, building directly upon months of fatal policy inertia inherited from the preceding in...
15 August 1975, 21 August 2004, and 5 August 2024 are not isolated tragedies. They mark a half-century assault by the same anti-liberation forces to dismantle a pluralistic nation. Three dates stand out in Bangladesh’s post-independence history like open wounds: 15 August 1975, 21 August 2004, and 5 August 2024. They are not coincidences....
From the interim regime to the newly elected BNP government, consecutive leaders have leveraged chaos to keep the public paralyzed and quiet. Two years after the so-called July Movement, Bangladesh is now trapped in state failure. Citizens were promised institutional reform, civil liberties, and strict adherence to the rule of law. Instead, the...
From the Ashes of War to a New Beginning 🇧🇩 When Bangladesh gained independence in 1971, it inherited a nation devastated by war—destroyed bridges, a crippled economy, millions displaced, and critical infrastructure in ruins. Returning from a Pakistani prison on 10 January 1972, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman immediately launched an amb...
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