Bangladesh: Country Focus
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External institutional source for political change, security situation, protest aftermath, and country context in 2024–2025.
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Bangladesh: Crackdown as Elections Loom
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Rights-focused source on arrests, intimidation, student/youth wing violence, and the restrictive pre-election environment.
Bangladesh: Elections Scarred by Violence
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Human Rights Watch's review of pre-election, election-day, and post-election violence surrounding the 10th Parliamentary Election.
Bangladesh: Era of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
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Important insider-political account of the 1972–1975 Mujib years, covering administration, constitution, emergency rule, BAKSAL, and political crisis.
Bangladesh: Freedom in the World 2018
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Background source on political rights, civil liberties, enforced disappearance, opposition pressure, and democratic backsliding.
Bangladesh: Government Must Urgently Halt Mounting Death Toll of Protesters
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Early warning source on rising deaths, protest repression, and the urgent need to stop violence.
Bangladesh: Muzzling dissent online
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Amnesty International briefing on the Digital Security Act's vague offences, surveillance powers, and threats to journalists and online expression.
Bangladesh: New Digital Security Act imposes dangerous restrictions on freedom of expression
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Amnesty International's response to the enactment of the Digital Security Act in September 2018, focusing on press freedom and speech restrictions.
Bangladesh: New Law Will Silence Critics
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HRW critique of the Digital Security Act after passage, useful for the legal-control chapter of 2018.
Bangladesh: No Justice in Mass Trials for Mutineers
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Critical HRW response to the trials of 847 accused; useful for understanding fair-trial standards and due process debates.
Bangladesh: Release Photographer and End Violent Crackdown
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International rights perspective on the road-safety movement, Shahidul Alam’s detention, and the crackdown on dissent.
Bangladesh: Scrap Draconian Elements of Digital Security Act
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Rights-focused source on vague speech offences, surveillance power, and free-expression concerns before the law was passed.
Bangladesh: Stop Attacks on Student Protesters, Critics
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Human Rights Watch statement on the 2018 road-safety protests, attacks on students, and targeting of journalists and critics.
Bangladesh: Stop Killings by Security Forces
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Human-rights report on extrajudicial killings and arbitrary arrests during the 2007 emergency.
Bangladesh: The BDR Mutiny
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Early policy brief giving an overview, timeline, and immediate political-security implications of the revolt.
Bangladesh: The Unfinished Revolution
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A useful secondary source for understanding independence, crisis, and the unfinished nature of the political project.
Bangladesh: World Report 2008 Country Summary
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Annual rights summary of the caretaker government, emergency rule, reforms, arrests, and the rights environment.
Baro-Bhuiyans
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Reference overview of the Baro-Bhuiyan confederacies and their resistance role in late sixteenth and early seventeenth-century Bengal.
Battle of Buxar
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Overview of the 1764 battle that consolidated East India Company military-political leverage in eastern India.
Battle of Plassey
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Concise reference on the actors, military context, and imperial consequences of the 23 June 1757 battle.