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Rabbi’s martyrdom yet to get recognition

In the early hours of August 5, two young women were frantically searching for their 17-year-old brother, Ismail Hossen Rabbi, who had gone missing after leaving home the previous day to join the Anti-Discrimination student movement, breaking the lock on their tin-roofed house.

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Rabbi’s martyrdom yet to get recognition
Sisters struggle to get official acknowledgement for their 17-year-old brother

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In the early hours of August 5, two young women were frantically searching for their 17-year-old brother, Ismail Hossen Rabbi, who had gone missing after leaving home the previous day to join the Anti-Discrimination student movement, breaking the lock on their tin-roofed house.

After hours of desperate searching, an Ansar member at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital morgue showed them several photographs. Among them, they found Rabbi -- lying lifeless on a stretcher, a single gunshot wound visible on his forehead, part of his brain exposed.

"Seeing the photo of my brother, my whole universe turned upside down," said Mim Akter, one of Rabbi's sisters.

The sisters requested the morgue authorities to release their brother's body but were told they first needed to prove their relationship.

When they asked how to do so, the authorities instructed them to bring police officers from the Jhigatola police box, who had reportedly left Rabbi at DMCH.

"However, when we sent our maternal uncles to the Jhigatola police box, they were chased away," Mim said.

"We begged the morgue authorities, explaining that the police wouldn't come, but they didn't listen," Mim added. "We were terrified they would disappear his body, just as we had heard happened to other students."

Later that afternoon, when protesting students arrived to retrieve the bodies of others, the sisters asked for their help. With the students' assistance, they managed to recover Rabbi's body from the morgue and, after pleading repeatedly, secured a death certificate from Ward 7.

However, the certificate only listed his name and date of death, without mentioning the cause, even though his forehead visibly bore a bullet wound.

Mim and her sister Mitu then hurriedly carried the body away, fearing the police might stop them.

"All my life, I thought my brother would carry our coffin one day. Never in my worst nightmare did I imagine that we would be carrying his," Mim said. "There are even videos of us, with the help of students, carrying my brother's body from the hospital," she added.

Despite possessing ample evidence -- including photographs of Rabbi's body, videos of their struggle to retrieve him, and a death certificate -- the sisters remain unable to secure their brother's martyr status.

Rabbi's name is absent from the martyr list, leaving them uncertain where to seek recognition for his sacrifice.

Furthermore, their attempts to file a case in court have been thwarted due to the lack of a postmortem report, a critical document they were never given.

After Rabby's burial in Madaripur, his sisters and student movement coordinators met with the DMCH director, who denied their request for a death certificate listing the cause of death, instructing them to get one from the local government instead.

"After getting the certificate from our Panchkhola Union Parishad chairman, we returned to submit it to the hospital authorities. However, the director said that he had been directed by the newly appointed health adviser to take more time, and the certificate would be provided eventually," said Mitu Akter, Rabby's sister.

"More than a month has passed, and that time has still not come. My brother still hasn't received official recognition as a martyr," she added.

In the meantime, the family spoke with several coordinators about where to go for the enlistment process, but they simply pointed to one another, and no one seemed to know the exact place to get this done.

"Is this our responsibility? If the government requires verification, they should direct us to a specific location. Many families of martyrs like us are in the same situation; they also don't know where to turn. Many bodies have disappeared or been burned to ashes. How will they be enlisted? This independence was earned at the cost of their lives -- do their lives hold no value? Will they receive no recognition?" asked Mim.

According to Mim, Rabby was a second-semester student at Shariatpur Polytechnic Institute.

Rabby's father, Md Miraz Talukder, a van driver by profession, lives hand to mouth. His mother, Asma Begum, teaches Arabic to students, while Mim manages daily expenses through private tutoring and sent money to Rabby to cover his living costs at the mess.

"When I found out he had joined the protest in Shariatpur, we brought him back to Sayedabad, where we live. He had even been hit by a rubber bullet on July 19 at Shahbagh," said Mim.

"By the end of July, when many students were losing their lives and social media was flooded with images and videos of injured or dead students and civilians, he refused to stay home, despite our pleas."

"On August 4, while we were at tuition, he somehow managed to unlock the door and leave. After that, I couldn't reach him by phone.

"In our last conversation on August 3, he said, 'You're worrying about me? What about Mugdha Bhai or Abu Sayed Bhai? They're already martyrs. If I die, I'll be one too.' He did become a martyr, but hasn't received that recognition yet."

On September 25, the sisters managed to meet with Information Adviser Md Nahid Islam alongside the family members of another victim -- Miraj Hossain.

The adviser assured all martyrs and injured individuals will be included in the official list.​

Each one of these murders must be avenged, murderers should be sought out and punished under the law.

 

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Each one of these murders must be avenged, murderers should be sought out and punished under the law.

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Govt to give Tk 3 million compensation to family of each student movement martyr

The government will provide Tk 3 million to the family of each person killed in the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement, Special Assistant to the Chief Adviser Mahfuz Alam said Thursday. Mr Alam made the announcement during a briefing at the Foreign Service Academy in Dhaka, following a meeting o

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Govt to give Tk 3 million compensation to family of each student movement martyr
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Oct 17, 2024 21:11
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Oct 17, 2024 21:11

The government will provide Tk 3 million to the family of each person killed in the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement, Special Assistant to the Chief Adviser Mahfuz Alam said Thursday.

Mr Alam made the announcement during a briefing at the Foreign Service Academy in Dhaka, following a meeting of the Advisory Council.

Syeda Rizwana Hasan, Adviser on Forest, Environment and Climate Change, also attended the briefing.​

 

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From classroom to martyrdom: A tribute to the fallen HSC examinees

These martyred students achieved more in the years that they lived than many of us would do in decades.

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From classroom to martyrdom: A tribute to the fallen HSC examinees

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Every year, as the results of the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) exams get published, the media features bright-eyed successful students with their proud parents and/or teachers. This year, it was different. HSC examinees who lost their lives during the July uprising made the headlines. The studies that defined them as students or university applicants bore a broader meaning. They are the young revolutionaries whose sacrifices have made changes possible and led us to reflect on the paradoxes of life and death.

These martyred students achieved more in the years that they lived than many of us would do in decades. The breadth of their lifespan does not include the depths of their dying or the meaning they gave to their own lives. Their purposeful existence, though not long in years, was rich enough to defy death's physical limits. Their deaths strip away the triviality often associated with examinations and youthful aspirations, as their academic successes serve as reminders not only of unrealised potential but also of poignant sacrifices that lend new weight to the freedoms we may take for granted. Their GPA scores now stand as symbolic markers of their existential struggle against a system they deemed unjust. These students have become part of a larger narrative that transcends individual loss. By reflecting on their contributions, we can understand how death both shapes and defines life—both now and in the future.

The omnipresence of death is a core belief in almost all religions. Without an awareness of the inevitable end of our physical life, the metaphysical union with our maker would lose its significance. The Islamic belief regards martyrdom as a sacred act, granting the departed a special place in paradise. This glorification of death eases grief by transforming a loss into an act of spiritual victory. Similarly, Hinduism and Buddhism view death within the larger cycle of Samsara, where life and death are interwoven in an endless sequence of births, deaths, and rebirths. This circularity allows death to be accepted as a form of transition. Conversely, to think of death transformed into something beyond its inherent finality is central to Bardo Thodol, or the Tibetan Book of the Dead. The transitional state, bardo, is where the soul wanders through various stages of consciousness before reaching rebirth or liberation. In bardo, reality becomes fluid, subject to distortions and projections shaped by the mind's own fears, desires and attachments.

The HSC results of those who have left us can be interpreted as a type of bardo for the living—the families and communities still grappling with the loss. No words are enough to console the grieving parents and loved ones. The pain of separation for them is excruciatingly real and concrete. Yet, the meaning of these students' lives is paradoxically illuminated through their deaths. While their near ones look at the vacant chair at the dinner table or the absence of sibling rivalry, we look at their unfulfilled dreams and grant their stories an eternal quality, glorifying their defiance against formidable opponents.

The posthumous announcement of the exam results functions as a simulacrum—a representation that hints at a reality that is no longer accessible. The young ones are not with us to claim their achievements. Their successes have become a kind of "hyperreality," where the meaning of their education and potential is magnified by the tragedy of their deaths. It is as though they died to give meaning to the very concept of life itself, asserting that life's worth is not measured by longevity or conventional milestones, but by the depth of one's commitment to an ideal, even at the cost of one's existence.

Then again, the crest of their success rests on the trough of a revolutionary wave that forms our political history. A revolution needs many waves to reach the shore. To think of the sacrifices of only one generation as the sole grand narrative would be a disservice to the other sacrifices that went into the fight to overthrow autocratic regimes, whether in 1990, 1971, or beyond. The stories we choose to highlight reveal much about our national character. When a revolutionary leader like Matia Chowdhury dies without receiving due recognition, we overlook her contribution to "Bangladesh 1.0". By denying her the honour of being buried as a national hero, we falsify our history.

We have pressed a "reset button" as if to suggest that history (re)originated on August 5, 2024. If we forget the leaders and the dates that defined the foundation of our nation, we are denying the sacrifice of those who gave us our national flag and territory. If we pick only our recent heroes, then we risk picking up dead flowers to place in the vase of our history, disconnected from the tree that birthed many such flowers throughout the twists and turns of our history. "Reset" is a term more applicable to machines and artificial intelligence. For organic life or human intelligence, we need to be appreciative of the nuances of both life and death. Erasing history is a crime for which the fallen government has paid heavily. There is no sense in repeating the same mistake. I look at the pictures of those bright-eyed faces who had the potential to become so many things. Yet they became the guiding lights for us so that we don't lose our way in blind hatred and revenge.​

 

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Who made so many people accused, asks plaintiff

But the case has been filed against some people, who are apparently not involved with the incident. Even the plaintiff does not know how so many people have been accused in the case. Now he wants to rectify the case

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Who made so many people accused, asks plaintiff
Satyajit Ghosh
Shariatpur
Published: 20 Oct 2024, 21: 08

Deceased Al Amin’s mother Jiasmin Begum and sister Aflan Sinthia are crying by his grave at their village home in Dakkhin Mogor village in Naria upazila of Shariatpur on 19 October 2024 Satyajit Ghosh

Al Amin, 29, was shot to death during the movement of Students Against Discrimination (SAD) at Baipail in Savar of Dhaka on 5 August. His father, Ismail, filed a lawsuit against 154 at the metropolitan magistrate court in Dhaka on 9 October in this connection.

Several leaders of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) from Shariatpur, Isamil’s home district, helped him in filing the case.

But the case has been filed against some people, who are apparently not involved with the incident. Even the plaintiff does not know how so many people have been accused in the case. Now he wants to rectify the case.

An expatriate to Saudi Arabia, Al Amin was the son of Ismail and Jiasmin Begum, from Dakkhin Mogor village in Naria upazila of Shariatpur. Upon returning home around four months ago, he started a grocery shop along with his father in the Baipail area. Ismail sustained bullet injuries after joining a procession to topple the government. Since then his family members did not know his whereabouts. Later on 17 August, they found his body at the morgue of Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital and buried him at his village.

The case Al Amin’s father Ismail filed against 154 include former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, former road transport minister Obaidul Quader, former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, former deputy minister Enamul Haque Shamim, former MP Bahauddin Nasim, BM Mozammel Haque, Opu Ukil and so on.

Besides, the accused include former mayor and councillor of various pourashavas of Shariatpur, upazila parishad chairman and union parishad chairman and local Awami League leaders.

The accused list include US expatriate Abdus Salam, Shariatpur press club general secretary freedom fighter Abdus Samad Talukder, ailing physician Alamgir Mati, National Institute of CardioVascular Diseases (NICVD) physician Ashraful Haque and Naria upazila assistant cooperative officer Shahadat Hossain.

At least 15 of the accused are traders.

Following the filing of the case, judge Dilruba Afroze of the metropolitan magistrate court in Dhaka ordered the Kafrul police station to inform the court by 21 October whether any general diary (GD), unnatural death (UD) case or any regular case was filed in connection with the death of Al Amin and whether the police are investigating the case.

Plaintiff Ismail claimed Naria upazila unit BNP president Dadan Munshi and a convict in a murder case, Babul Talukder, are behind the case.

Babul Talukder, who has been awarded life term imprisonment in a case filed over the murder of former public prosecutor of Shariatpur judge court Habibur Rahman and his brother Monir Hossain Munshi, is currently on the run.

In the case filed over the death of Al Amin, Habibur Rahman’s son Parvez Rahman and Mezbaur Rahman and Monir Hossain’s son Borhan Munshi have been accused.

Besides them, several accused who were acquitted from the case filed over the murder of two brothers from Shariatpur have also been accused.

Speaking to Prothom Alo, plaintiff Ismail said, “Several BNP leaders and a convict accused in a murder case in Shariatpur town communicated with me regarding the case. They called me with a proposal to help me. They said one thing and did the opposite. I did not realise they would use me to file cases against various people. My sign was taken through the lawyer to file the lawsuit. Now I’m caught in a cleft stick for that signature. I’m trying to rectify the case through legal ways.”

US expatriate Abdus Salam has been made accused in the case. He told Prothom Alo over phone, “I’ve come to the US in June. I was not even in the country when the incident took place. I have been made accused due to enmity. Now those people are asking money from my relatives to drop my name as an accused.”

Another accused, Shariatpur press club general secretary freedom fighter Abdus Samad Talukder told Prothom Alo, “A certain group attacked my house after the fall of the government. Those people have made me an accused in the case.”

Modern Herbal’s founding physician Alamgir Mati has been ailing for a long time and remains bedridden often.

His personal assistant told Prothom Alo, “Our sir is sick. He needs help from others even for walking. We are astonished that such a person has been made murder accused.”

Prothom Alo could not contact Babul Talukder as he has been hiding.

Naria upazila BNP president Dadan Munshi is currently in Saudi Arabia to perform Umrah Hajj.

Speaking to Prothom Alo over WhatsApp Sunday morning, he said, “Al Amin’s father phoned me seeking help to file a case. Since then I haven’t communicated with him.”

He claimed that he did not know who have been made accused in the case.

Visiting deceased Al Amin’s village home on Saturday morning, his mother Jiasmin Begum and sister Aflan Sinthia were found to be crying by his grave.

Jiasmin Begum lives with a son and a daughter in a house made of iron sheets. She told this correspondent she has been lamenting the loss of her son for the last two and a half months. Amid this she has been facing the tangles of the case.

She further said they do not want to run the case that way.

* The report has been rewritten in English by Shameem Reza​

 

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Boy who wanted to stand out

Nasib Hasan Riyan, the second of three children of Golam Razzak and Sammi Akter, had a constant drive to stand out, in clothes or in action. He had a dream of becoming a pilot.

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Boy who wanted to stand out
Kamrun Nahar Sumy 27 October, 2024, 00:17

Nasib Hasan Riyan

Nasib Hasan Riyan, the second of three children of Golam Razzak and Sammi Akter, had a constant drive to stand out, in clothes or in action. He had a dream of becoming a pilot.

Riyan’s liveliness used to panic others in the house as he would go on trips outside Dhaka without telling his parents anything. Yet, his maturity helped to ease family tension in disputes, his father said on October 25.

Three bullets hit the 17-year-old spirited boy in the face and the chest on August 5, when he went out for celebrations after the overthrow of the Awami League government that day.

Nasib, who took part in the protests seeking reforms in civil service job reservations, went to Ganabhaban, where the deposed prime minister lived, with his elder brother Nuhash Hasan Rafin and several of his friends.

The student protests, which began on July 1, escalated into a mass uprising later that month, ultimately toppling the Awami League government.

Back from Ganabhaban, they gathered on the Ring Road at Shyamali, at a short distance from Nasib’s house. A group of police personnel suddenly approached them in the afternoon, firing indiscriminately, said Saikat Francis Gomes, a resident of the area who was standing near by.

‘The police personnel raised their hands at one point when several people requested with them not to fire. A procession was approaching from the opposite direction,’ Saikat said.

‘We urged the marchers not to clash with the police. But when a child threw a stone at the police, they began firing again. Nasib fell down.’

A quarter of an hour later, when the police moved away, Saikat, Nasib’s brother who ran into an alley when the police fired, and several others carried Nasib to Alliance Hospital.

He was then taken to Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital where he was pronounced dead in the evening.

Eight to nine people were lying wounded on the ground, he said. Later that day, a mob beat to death two police personnel and a leader of the Chhatra League who were hiding in a nearby building, he added.

The police fired in self-defence when the station house was attacked, said a subinspector, who was transferred to the Adabar police on October 1, as he had heard.

Nasib’s father filed a complaint with the International Crimes Tribunal on August 29, accusing 52 people, including the deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, on charges of genocide.

The Directorate General of Health Services on September 24 said that after a preliminary investigation, it had listed 708 people having died in the protests and uprising.​

 

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Abu Sayeed killing: 2 teachers, 7 staff of BRU suspended

Begum Rokeya University authorities have suspended two teachers and seven staff members in connection with their alleged involvement in the death of Abu Sayeed, a student of the English department of the university who became one of the first as well as iconic martyrs of the Anti-Discrimination Stu

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Abu Sayeed killing: 2 teachers, 7 staff of BRU suspended
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Oct 28, 2024 20:09
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Oct 28, 2024 20:09

Begum Rokeya University authorities have suspended two teachers and seven staff members in connection with their alleged involvement in the death of Abu Sayeed, a student of the English department of the university who became one of the first as well as iconic martyrs of the Anti-Discrimination Students movement in July.

The decision was taken at the 108th Syndicate meeting held at the administrative building of the university on Monday morning with its vice-chancellor Prof. Md Shawkat Ali in the chair.

The meeting also took a number of decisions including stopping politics on the campus, reopening the activities of Chhatra Sangshad and forming a probe body over the allegation of irregularities in the teacher recruitment process of the university, reports UNB.

When briefing, Prof. Shawkat Ali said the authorities concerned have decided to impose a ban on all kinds of criminal activities including extortion, tender manipulation, seat trade in residential dormitories, illegal occupation of halls and tail-wagging politics in order to supervise and control the moral, academic discipline of the students.

As per the university law, no teachers and staff will be members of any political organisations, he said, adding “Action will be taken against those involved in such activities.”

Besides, the meeting decided to file a case against the teachers and staff of the university allegedly involved in the killing of Sayeed.

It also decided to not to accept the leave of those teachers and staff who were absent and a show-cause notice will be issued for their absence.​

 

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July uprising: Families of martyrs to get financial aid from today

The July Shaheed Smriti Foundation will start providing financial assistance from today to the families of those who were martyred or injured during the July uprising.

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July uprising: Families of martyrs to get financial aid from today

The July Shaheed Smriti Foundation will start providing financial assistance from today to the families of those who were martyred or injured during the July uprising.

Initially, the families of the deceased will get Tk 5 lakh each, while the injured will get Tk 1 lakh each.

Each week, 200 families will get the assistance, and the disbursement programme will be completed in four phases.

Sarjis Alam, general secretary of the foundation, shared the information at a press conference held at the foundation's office in Shahbagh yesterday.

Sarjis said the first disbursement of funds will take place at the DSCC city hall for the families from the Dhaka division. "Not all martyr families will come tomorrow [today]; those who will receive the assistance have already been contacted," he said.

"Other families will receive assistance in phases over the following weeks, and it is expected that all families will receive their aid by December," he added.

Sarjis also mentioned that after assisting the families from the Dhaka division, aid will be provided to families in other divisions.

The families of martyrs will be given a cheque, while the injured will be sent the money through BKash, he added.

However, if anyone requires urgent assistance, they can contact the helpline at 16000, and help will be provided within three days, he added.​

 

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Student injured in uprising dies in CMH

One more student hit by bullets during the student-led mass uprising died on Thursday while undergoing treatment at Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka...

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Student injured in uprising dies in CMH
Staff Correspondent 14 November, 2024, 19:45

Abdullah | BSS photo

One more student hit by bullets during the student-led mass uprising died on Thursday while undergoing treatment at Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka.

The victim is Abdullah, a student of Government Shahid Suhrawardy College, hailing from Benapole in Jashore.

Dhaka cantonment police station officer-in-charge Abdul Alim confirmed the news to New Age.

The body of the victim was sent to the Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College and Hospital mortuary for autopsy, said the OC.

Mahin Sarker, a coordinator of the Student Movement Against Discrimination, said that Abdullah was shot in the head in Old Dhaka on August 5.

Abdullah was taken to Sir Salimullah Medical College Hospital and later to Dhaka Medical College Hospital. He returned home after a surgery at the DMCH, said Mahin.

He was again admitted to the DMCH with infection in the head. Abdullah went through another surgery but he was shifted to the CMH on August 22 as his condition did not improve.

His health condition improved initially at the CMH but he was put on life support after some days, said Mahin, adding that he was on life support till his last day.

The Directorate General of Health Services on September 24 came up with a preliminary list of 708 people who died in the student-led mass uprising that forced Sheikh Hasina to flee to India.

The health affairs sub-committee of the Student Movement Against Discrimination said on September 28 that it had listed 1,581 people as dead in the July-August mass uprising that forced the fall of the autocratic regime of Sheikh Hasina on August 5.​

 

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Each martyr family to get Tk 30 lakh: Prof Yunus

Vows to rehabilitate them; govt to bear all expenses of uprising injured

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Each martyr family to get Tk 30 lakh: Prof Yunus
Vows to rehabilitate them; govt to bear all expenses of uprising injured

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Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus today said each martyr's family will get Tk 30 lakh from the government, reiterating that his government will rehabilitate families of all mass-uprising martyrs and bear the full expanses of the treatment of all the injured.

In a televised address to the nation, he said the Health Ministry has already prepared a comprehensive list for the long-term and expensive treatment of the injured and looking after the families of the martyrs.

"Families of all the martyrs of the mass uprising will be rehabilitated and no one will be left out," he said.

At the beginning of his speech, the chief adviser remembered the millions of martyrs of the 1971 Liberation War and all those martyrs of the uprising of the student-worker-mass movement against 'fascism' in July-August.

Prof Yunus said the government took steps to bring corneas from Nepal for the treatment of those who lost their eyesight suffering pellet injury in the mass uprising.

The chief adviser said some deserving injured have also been sent abroad for better treatment under government initiatives.

No martyrs and injured students and workers of the July uprising will be left out of rehabilitation plans and healthcare, he said, adding that this is the commitment made by the interim government.

Prof Yunus said the July Shaheed Smriti Foundation, formed to preserve the memory of the martyrs of this mass uprising, has started its works with full momentum. The government has given a grant of TK 100 crore to this foundation.

He said the social welfare ministry has sent a proposal of $5 million allocation to the World Bank through the Economic Relations Division to ensure the rehabilitation of the families of the martyrs and the best treatment of the injured in the July-August revolution.​

 

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Consider me as an adviser from Rangpur: Dr Yunus

The chief adviser enquired about the health condition of Abu Sayed's parents and assured them of all support from the government.

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Consider me as an adviser from Rangpur: Dr Yunus
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Dhaka
Published: 28 Nov 2024, 19: 50

The chief adviser hands over the certificate of the Shahid Abu Sayed Foundation to the family members of martyr Abu Sayed on 28 November, 2024. BSS

Chief adviser Prof Yunus has said he considered himself a son of Rangpur as he was moved by the bravery and sacrifice of July uprising martyr Abu Sayed.

"Consider me as an adviser from Rangpur," said Professor Yunus while welcoming the family members of Abu Sayed at his office in Tajgaon, Dhaka.

The chief adviser handed over the certificate of the Shahid Abu Sayed Foundation to the family members of martyr Abu Sayed during a brief ceremony on the day.

Mokbul Hossain, the father of Abu Sayed, received the certificate. Liton Mia, a nephew of Abu Sayed, was also present on the occasion.

The chief adviser enquired about the health condition of Abu Sayed's parents and assured them of all support from the government.​

 

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Daily Star’s photo exhibition ‘36 Days of July -- Saluting The Bravehearts’ begins

The event began with a one-minute silence to honour the students and people, who fought against fascism

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Daily Star’s photo exhibition ‘36 Days of July -- Saluting The Bravehearts’ begins

The photo exhibition titled "36 Days of July -- Saluting The Bravehearts" was inaugurated today at The Daily Star Centre in the capital's Farmgate area.

The Daily Star Editor Mahfuz Anam opened the exhibition around 3:15pm.

The event organised by The Daily Star began with a one-minute silence to honour the students and people, who fought against fascism.

Photo: Prabir Das

The exhibition pays tribute to those who lost lives, were injured, or traumatised during the revolution.

It showcases The Daily Star's coverage through stories, photos, and editorials, reflecting the sacrifices and the regime's brutality, and honours reporters and photographers who risked their lives for authentic reporting.

Photo: Prabir Das

The exhibition will run until December 7. It will be open to all from 10:00am to 8:00pm.

As part of the exhibition, a discussion on "Courage amidst crisis: Stories from volunteers of the July Uprising" will be held tomorrow while a similar programme titled "Pedagogy of Protest: A discussion with university teachers on the frontlines" will be held on Monday. Another discussion on "Woman, Life, Freedom: A dialogue on political representation of women" will take place on Tuesday.

Photo: Prabir Das/Star

Same programme titled "The Blackout Chronicles: How journalists and activists navigated the Blackout" will be held on Wednesday.

Discussion on "Marginalised Voices of the July Revolution: Stories of struggle, sacrifice and hope from workers" will take place on Thursday.

Similar programme "Write to Protest: Writers and poets on their experience of the Uprising" will take place on Saturday.​