Primary Sources · Official Documents and Legal Texts
— Human Rights Watch
Secondary
Important post-uprising source on security sector reform, accountability, victims, interim government, and institutional reform.
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— Nilima Ibrahim
Secondary
Groundbreaking testimonies of Birangonas documenting gendered violence during the war.
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— Hasan Rashid / South Asia Institute paper
Secondary
Biographical-academic reading on Sheikh Mujib’s political life, the one-party system, and the 1975 assassination context.
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— Amnesty International
Secondary
Rights-focused cross-check on detention, due process, torture allegations, and political rights restrictions under emergency rule.
Primary Sources · Official Documents and Legal Texts
— Amnesty International
Secondary
Rights-focused cross-check for political violence, expression, detention, and human-rights concerns during 2013.
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— U.S. Department of State
Secondary
Annual U.S. State Department report on human rights, student protests, killings, detention, and the transition context.
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— ARTICLE 19
Secondary
Legal-rights analysis of expression, journalism, digital rights, and vague offences.
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— Amit Ranjan
Secondary
Useful for competing narratives, impacts, and the political memory of 1971.
Primary Sources · Official Documents and Legal Texts
— Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Parline
Secondary
Inter-Parliamentary Union Parline entry with election timing, parliamentary context, and result metadata for the 30 December 2018 election.
Primary Sources · Official Documents and Legal Texts
— European Union Agency for Asylum
Secondary
External institutional source for political change, security situation, protest aftermath, and country context in 2024–2025.
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— Moudud Ahmed
Secondary
Important insider-political account of the 1972–1975 Mujib years, covering administration, constitution, emergency rule, BAKSAL, and political crisis.
Primary Sources · Official Documents and Legal Texts
— Amnesty International
Secondary
Amnesty International briefing on the Digital Security Act's vague offences, surveillance powers, and threats to journalists and online expression.
Primary Sources · Official Documents and Legal Texts
— Amnesty International
Secondary
Amnesty International's response to the enactment of the Digital Security Act in September 2018, focusing on press freedom and speech restrictions.
Primary Sources · Official Documents and Legal Texts
— Human Rights Watch
Secondary
HRW critique of the Digital Security Act after passage, useful for the legal-control chapter of 2018.
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— Kamal Hossain
Secondary
Kamal Hossain's memoir traces liberation, constitution-making, democracy, and the justice question.
Primary Sources · Official Documents and Legal Texts
— Human Rights Watch
Secondary
Rights-focused source on vague speech offences, surveillance power, and free-expression concerns before the law was passed.
Primary Sources · Official Documents and Legal Texts
— Human Rights Watch
Secondary
Human-rights report on extrajudicial killings and arbitrary arrests during the 2007 emergency.
Primary Sources · Official Documents and Legal Texts
— Human Rights Watch
Secondary
Annual rights summary of the caretaker government, emergency rule, reforms, arrests, and the rights environment.
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— YouTube documentary/explainer
Secondary
A documentary explainer on the 1961 Barak language movement in Assam; useful for comparative Bengali-language struggles beyond East Pakistan.
Primary Sources · Official Documents and Legal Texts
— ATN Bangla / documentary-animation style
Secondary
A Bangla explainer on the 1952 Language Movement; useful for introductory viewing, with production quality best checked before treating it as a core source.