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How Khondaker Moshtaq, Ziaur Rahman and BNP embraced killers of country’s founding father Bangabandhu

At the heart of Bangladesh's long culture of impunity lies an infamous decree, introduced by turncoat Khondaker Mostaque Ahmed and later institutionalised by successive military governments which helped safeguard the killers of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most of his family members, researchers say.  Within a span of forty days into that gru...

Sheikh Hasina: Pioneer of Digital Bangladesh, Humanitarian Leadership & Progress

Sheikh Hasina: Pioneer of Digital Bangladesh, Humanitarian Leadership & Progress

Jamaat kicked the poor in the stomach and embezzled VGF cards after coming to power

BNP-Jamaat leaders and activists started repressing the ordinary people and looting their properties immediately after they formed the government in October 2001. At the beginning of 2002, Jamaat MP Maulana Abdus Sobhan ordered the distribution of 2,100 VGF cards among the leaders and workers of Jamaat-Shibir though it was allocated to the poor ...

2001: Chhatra Dal-Shibir started looting, terrorizing and torturing universities after coming to power

Soon after the victory of the BNP-Jamaat alliance in the 8th National Parliamentary Elections on October 1, 2001, Chhatra Dal and Shibir terrorists started brutal atrocities across the country. They even looted the sweetmeats to celebrate their victory in the shops and ransacked those. Even from the night of the elections, they started persecuti...

Khaleda Zia's tenure in 2001: Professionals lost jobs for not supporting BNP politics

The BNP-Jamaat alliance ran havoc across the country soon after winning the 8th National Parliamentary elections on October 1, 2001. The killing, looting and rape by the terrorists of Shibir, Chhatra Dal, and Juba Dal devastated the lives of the country’s people. Even ordinary government employees faced the wrath. Particularly the freedom ...