The genocide that Pakistan’s occupational forces committed in Bangladesh in 1971 has yet to get due recognition.
As he had actively protested against Ayub's dictatorship, and was indeed jailed, he felt compelled to protest against Ershad's dictatorship through his poetry.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today handed over keys of 5,000 houses built under the government's "Bir Nibash" project for underprivileged freedom fighters.
It was like a radiant dawn shining after a long and dreadful night. The cool wind of freedom was blowing in mid-December 1971.
Shurjo’s Clan uses magic realism to conjure Shurjomukhi’s freedom fighter uncles, who were martyred in Sylhet’s tea gardens during the 1971 Liberation War, and her grandmother, who took her own life shortly after the 1947 Partition.
Almost 50 years after the war, freedom fighter Guerrilla Hafiz is yet to receive state recognition
Biranganas have to wait for up to more than three years to be gazetted as freedom fighters in the absence of a timeline in the process, says a new report of Transparency International Bangladesh.
On November 27, Saturday at 7 PM, Gyantapas Abdur Razzaq Foundation hosted its fifth episode of their discussion series,‘Bidyapeeth Baithaki: Antaranga Alape Gunizan, online’. The topic of this week’s episode was ‘Crack Platoon: The Freedom Fighters of Dhaka’.
Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Faridpur's Saltha Police Station Mohammad Ali Jinnah has been withdrawn for allegedly physically assaulting and verbally abusing a freedom fighter.
Syed Shahidul Haque Mama, a valiant freedom fighter, died at a Qatar hospital on Friday, ending over a two-month-long battle for life following a massive cardiac arrest. He was 66.
Had it not been for his becoming a witness in the trials of the war criminals we might not ever have come to know of Miron Sheik.
A freedom fighter has died after alleged police torture in Jamalpur Sadar upazila today when he went in the aid of a relative booked for boarding a local train without ticket.
After 45 years of independence, the government defines as to who will be eligible to be considered as freedom fighters of Bangladesh’s Liberation War of 1971.
The High Court yesterday confirmed the death penalty of six persons, including a central Jubo Dal leader, for killing Awami League lawmaker Ahsanullah Master, a decade after a trial court sentenced 22 people to death and six others to life term for the 2004 murder.
A Tangail court orders attachment of assets of 10 persons including Awami League (AL) lawmaker Amanur Rahman Khan Rana and his three brothers in a case filed for the murder of a freedom fighter.
The legal battle in the war crimes case against Motiur Rahman Nizami has finally drawn to a close after 69 long months. The man, who led the ruthless militia Al-Badr in the massacre of Bangalees including intellectuals and professionals during the 1971 Liberation War, has now only one option left -- seeking presidential clemency by confessing to the crimes he committed during the nine-month war.
Armed robbers have allegedly broken into the house of a freedom fighter and shot him dead in Gazipur city.
He was here only for his job. When the Liberation War broke out, he could have slipped out of the country to safety. But William AS Ouderland, who came to East Pakistan in the 70s as the CEO of Bata Shoe Company, chose to join the fight for the independence of Bangladesh. It was because of the “love and affection” he “felt for the Bangalee people”, as he once wrote in a letter to a friend.
A freedom fighter is killed allegedly by unidentified miscreants in Garialpara area of Kurigram town.
