In addition, class 9-10 textbooks will cover disappearances, genocide, money laundering among other topics, Milon tells parliament

Ensure accountability without sacrificing institutional stability

Prosecutor says OHCHR would share information only if capital punishment were removed from Bangladesh’s international crimes law

Two years have passed since those transformative days of the July Uprising.

NCP leader and lawmaker says the film sidelined frontline leaders and portrayed Tarique Rahman as declaring the one-point demand

Leaders allege documentary distorts history; ministers, NCP's Akhter Hossen urge calm

Says the spirit of the 2024 uprising showed the power of people united across all walks of life

The trial process over the July-August 2024 atrocities will lose credibility if innocent people are accused out of revenge, personal enmity, or political rivalry, said rights activists, lawyers, and prosecution officials yesterday.

Looking back at JULY UPRISING

Two years after the July uprising, its core aspirations remain unfulfilled as the government has ignored the reform agenda endorsed by the people through the referendum and the July charter, Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Mia Golam Porwar said yesterday.

Though the July uprising restored democracy and created conditions to protect people's rights, its broader goals and public expectations cannot be fulfilled overnight, BNP Secretary General and LGRD Minister Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said.

By late July 2024, deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina was aware that scores of protesters were dying on the streets across the country, yet her government doubled down on its heavy-handed response to suppress the movement.

To call it a tumultuous time would be an understatement. The state-sponsored massacre had reached a bloody crescendo, yet the iron grip of Sheikh Hasina seemed firmer than ever in late July and early August 2024. On some days, it felt as though law enforcement agencies would continue shooting until the bullets ran out.

Around 11:00am on August 5, 2024, Sheikh Hasina was told what she had refused to believe: the protesters could no longer be stopped from reaching Gono Bhaban.

Speaking to The Daily Star, Jamaat-e-Islami secretary general alleges partisan appointments and broken promises while discussing reforms, campus politics and the future of the Awami League

July 2024 is one of the pivotal moments in Bangladesh’s history. What started as a student-led protest demanding reform in the quota system for government jobs rapidly grew into a nationwide uprising, culminating in a change of government.

The expected shift in political parties’ conduct and electoral democracy has not materialised despite the July uprising two years ago, while women’s once-visible political participation has steadily faded in the post-July period, speakers said yesterday.

It began with a question that resonated with millions of young Bangladeshis competing for scarce government jobs: should merit take a back seat to quotas?

In a separate case, the tribunal sets Aug 10 for defence arguments involving 7 youths killed in a 2016 operation

“Who do we go to when the police murders?” -- read a placard at a march of defiance titled ‘Droho Jatra’ that unfolded in Dhaka and was joined by thousands, including teachers, cultural workers, members of civil society, and leaders and activists from left-leaning political parties.