Memoirs and Eyewitness Accounts · Memoirs and Testimonies
The Emergence of Pakistan
Editorial
An insider political account of Pakistan movement and state formation; useful as a critical reading source.
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Memoirs and Eyewitness Accounts · Memoirs and Testimonies
Those Turbulent Days of the Sundarbans in the Liberation War
— Sundarbans Liberation War memory collection
Editorial
A valuable regional memory source for understanding local resistance in the Sundarbans.
Memoirs and Eyewitness Accounts · Memoirs and Testimonies
Witness to Surrender
Editorial
A Pakistani military and administrative perspective on 1971, best used as a source with explicit bias notes.
News and Contemporary Reports · News Report
Anti-discrimination student movement: Citizens' platform launched to help achieve goals
Secondary
Report on the 55-member Jatiya Nagorik Committee announced after the 2024 uprising, including Nasiruddin Patwary's convener role and earlier student-political background.
News and Contemporary Reports · News Report
Aynaghar inside DGFI headquarters, has 22 cells: Inquiry commission
Secondary
Report on Bangladesh's enforced-disappearance inquiry commission identifying a detention site inside DGFI headquarters and describing complaints against security agencies.
News and Contemporary Reports · Contemporary Reporting and Rights Reports
Bangladesh: Protection of Hindus and others must be ensured amid ongoing violence
Secondary
Amnesty International statement on communal violence during Durga Puja in 2021.
News and Contemporary Reports · Contemporary Reporting and Rights Reports
Bangladesh: Repression, Security Force Abuses Discredit Elections
Secondary
Human Rights Watch report on arrests, violence, and opposition constraints around the January 2024 parliamentary election.
News and Contemporary Reports · Trial Monitoring
Chowdhury Mueen Uddin and Ashrafuzzaman Khan found guilty on 11 charges
Secondary
Bangladesh Trial Observer summary of the 3 November 2013 ICT-2 verdict sentencing Chowdhury Mueen Uddin and Ashrafuzzaman Khan to death in absentia in the intellectual-killings case.
News and Contemporary Reports · Human Rights Reports
Operation Clean Heart: Amnesty Reporting
Secondary
Amnesty International reporting on arrests, deaths in custody, and impunity concerns during Operation Clean Heart.
News and Contemporary Reports · Human Rights Reports
Operation Clean Heart: Human Rights Concerns
Secondary
Human Rights Watch reporting on security-force abuses and accountability concerns around Operation Clean Heart.
News and Contemporary Reports · Historical Report
Operation Searchlight - Reference Context
Secondary
Reference context for Operation Searchlight after a stale newspaper archive URL returned 404.
News and Contemporary Reports · Court Report
SC acquits ATM Azharul in war crimes case
Secondary
Dhaka Tribune report that the Appellate Division acquitted ATM Azharul Islam, overturning earlier ICT and appellate death-sentence rulings.
News and Contemporary Reports · Court Report
Summary of ICT verdict in Abul Kalam Azad case
Secondary
Daily Star summary of the first ICT verdict, sentencing Abul Kalam Azad alias Bachchu Razakar to death in absentia for crimes against humanity and genocide charges.
News and Contemporary Reports · Court Report
Supreme Court releases full verdict on Mir Quasem Ali's death sentence
Secondary
bdnews24 report on the Appellate Division verdict upholding Mir Quasem Ali's death sentence for 1971 war crimes.
News and Contemporary Reports · Labor Rights Archive
Tazreen Fashions Fire: Clean Clothes Campaign Archive
Secondary
Labor-rights archive documenting the Tazreen fire and buyer accountability campaigns.
News and Contemporary Reports · News Report
The 'Super 10' of the National Citizen Party
Secondary
Report on the February 2025 National Citizen Party leadership slate, including Nasiruddin Patwary's appointment as chief coordinator and earlier political background.
News and Contemporary Reports · News Report
UN report: How Asaduzzaman used BGB as 'strike force', wanted more helicopters deployed
Secondary
News report summarizing OHCHR fact-finding claims about former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal and security-force coordination during the July-August 2024 uprising.
News and Contemporary Reports · Newspaper archive
Ivy Rahman, a Strong Voice Silenced Forever
Archive
Archive report on Ivy Rahman's political role, injury in the 21 August 2004 grenade attack, and death on 24 August 2004.
News and Contemporary Reports · Contemporary Press Reports
Bangladesh Leader Is Shot and Killed in a Coup Attempt
Editorial
Contemporary international press report on Ziaur Rahman’s assassination and immediate coup context.
Cultural and Literary Resources · Literary Texts and Protest Culture
Nil Darpan; or, The Indigo Planting Mirror
Primary
A contemporary literary-political text associated with the Indigo Revolt and public exposure of planter abuses.