Tensions between Shibir activists and protesting student organisations escalated throughout the day and continued until 10:00pm yesterday
It was yet another attempt by Jamaat's student cadres to test the waters
One year after the fall of the Hasina regime, five Bangladeshi students at Cornell University reflect on a nation in transition and envision a future beyond fascism.
Photos of convicted war criminals were removed from an exhibition organised by Bangladesh Islami Chhatra Shibir at Dhaka University yesterday, following protests from students who called the display “an affront to the spirit of the Liberation War.”
Landed around 11:30am on a Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight from Dhaka
The programme will feature recitations of protest poetry from July 2024, an open discussion session, and the third staging of Mime Art’s powerful production “Rokte Agun Legechhe” (“The Blood is on Fire”), written, directed, and performed by the troupe’s founder, Nithor Mahbub.
Exactly one year ago, at 2:25pm, Sheikh Hasina fled Bangladesh aboard a military helicopter
He calls on the people to build a new Bangladesh based on accountability, human rights, and justice
Among those joining the event were injured protesters, victims’ families, and people from across the city
Exactly one year ago, at 2:25pm, Sheikh Hasina fled Bangladesh aboard a military helicopter
He calls on the people to build a new Bangladesh based on accountability, human rights, and justice
Among those joining the event were injured protesters, victims’ families, and people from across the city
Eleven singers from Saimum Shilpigosthi opened the programme at 12:11pm
There was, for a brief interval last month, the hope of reaching consensus, of returning to democratic nation-building in earnest.
