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— Academic research / political science papers
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Political science overview of the crisis from the late-2006 electoral confrontation to the 2008 election transition.
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— Rounaq Jahan
Secondary
Important political science reading on institutional crisis, military rule, and democratic transition in post-independence Bangladesh.
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— Asian Human Rights Commission
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Supplementary civil-society source on emergency rule, law enforcement, judiciary, and human-rights conditions.
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— S. R. Chakravarti
Secondary
A wider political history that includes the Ershad era and the democratic crisis leading to 1990.
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— Anthony Mascarenhas
Secondary
An important international account of post-independence Bangladesh, political killings, coups, and state instability.
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— Human Rights Watch
Secondary
Rights-focused source on arrests, intimidation, student/youth wing violence, and the restrictive pre-election environment.
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— Human Rights Watch
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Human Rights Watch's review of pre-election, election-day, and post-election violence surrounding the 10th Parliamentary Election.
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— Freedom House
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Background source on political rights, civil liberties, enforced disappearance, opposition pressure, and democratic backsliding.
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— Lawrence Ziring
Secondary
A political study covering the road to the end of the Ershad regime and the transition out of military-backed rule.
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— Amnesty International
Secondary
Early warning source on rising deaths, protest repression, and the urgent need to stop violence.
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— Human Rights Watch
Secondary
Critical HRW response to the trials of 847 accused; useful for understanding fair-trial standards and due process debates.
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— Amnesty International
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International rights perspective on the road-safety movement, Shahidul Alam’s detention, and the crackdown on dissent.
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— Human Rights Watch
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Human Rights Watch statement on the 2018 road-safety protests, attacks on students, and targeting of journalists and critics.
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— Sandeep Bhardwaj, IPCS
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Early policy brief giving an overview, timeline, and immediate political-security implications of the revolt.
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— Lawrence Lifschultz
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A useful secondary source for understanding independence, crisis, and the unfinished nature of the political project.
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— Naeem Mohaiemen
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Useful for cinema, representation, and how the war is reinterpreted in later memory cultures.
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— Muntassir Mamoon (ed.)
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Edited documentary collection associated with Muntassir Mamoon, useful for compiled liberation-war records and textual evidence.
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— M. Abdul Hafiz
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Bangla documentary-history compilation by M. Abdul Hafiz used in liberation-war research contexts.
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— Joya Chatterji
Secondary
A core academic reference for understanding Bengal politics, Hindu communalism, and the road to partition from 1932 to 1947.
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— Tarakchandra Das
Secondary
Tarakchandra Das's survey-based study of the destitutes in Calcutta during the 1943 Bengal famine.