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2004 (August 21) Figures

21 August Grenade Attack

Full list of figures, martyrs, coordinators, and collectives associated with 2004 (August 21).

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Sheikh Hasina

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Awami League leader and prime minister during the 2024 uprising

As prime minister, she led the Awami League government during the July-August 2024 crackdown and resigned on 5 August 2024 after the student-led uprising reached a decisive national rupture.

Bangladesh politics from the anti-Ershad movement through the 2024 Anti-Discrimination Movement and post-resignation transition.

Her resignation turned the protest wave into a state-transition moment and made accountability for protest repression a central public question.

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Ivy Rahman

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Awami League leader and August 21 attack victim

A senior Awami League organizer, she was fatally injured in the 21 August 2004 grenade attack on a party rally in Dhaka and died three days later.

Bangladesh's violent and polarized political climate in the early 2000s, especially the aftermath of the 2004 grenade attack.

Her death became one of the most remembered personal losses from the attack and remains central to public memory of political violence in that period.

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Mufti Abdul Hannan

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HuJI-B militant leader and convicted attacker

He was identified in security and research reporting as a leading figure in Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami Bangladesh and was executed in 2017 after conviction in the 2004 attack on the British High Commissioner in Sylhet.

Bangladesh's militant violence and counter-terrorism history from the late 1990s through the 2000s.

His cases became central to public understanding of HuJI-B networks, militant prosecutions, and the security politics of the period.

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Bangladesh Awami League

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Political Organization

This collective helped widen the anti-Ershad movement beyond a narrow party struggle and made democratic protest more socially durable.

The broader protest culture that shaped the 1990 Mass Uprising.

Its presence shows that the uprising depended on organizational depth, social alliances, and coordinated public participation.

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