Mujib, not Zia proclaimed independence: HC

The High Court on Sunday ruled that Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, not Ziaur Rahman, proclaimed Bangladesh's independence from Pakistan in 1971.

Jamaat will go to int’l forums if politically victimised

Jamaat-e-Islami chief Matiur Rahman Nizami today said his party would go to international forums, including human rights organisations, to seek justice if they are politically repressed and deprived of human rights in the name of holding trial of war criminals.

Prove innocence in war crime

Court orders Ghulam Azam, Nizami, Mojahid, SQ Chy, 32 others; asks why they should not be barred from polls

War crime tribunals in two weeks

The government will appoint an investigation agency, prosecutors and set up war crimes tribunals within two weeks to try those accused of murder and rape during the 1971 liberation struggle.

Govt to seek evidence from Pakistan, US

UN names 4 international experts to help in probe

The United Nations (UN) has named four international war crime experts to assist Bangladesh in the trials of war criminals of 1971, responding to a request of the government, officials said.

ঢাকায় মার্চের অগ্নিঝরা দিনগুলি

বাংলাদেশের প্রত্যেকটি আন্দোলনের সাথে জড়িয়ে আছে ঢাকা। বাংলাদেশের প্রত্যেকটি বিজয়ের সাথে মিশে আছে ঢাকা। স্বাধীনতা সংগ্রাম আর অগ্নিঝরা মার্চ তার ব্যত

অগ্নিঝরা মার্চ

ছাপ্পান্ন হাজার বর্গমাইলের এই দেশের পৃথক জাতিসত্তা আর লাল সবুজের মানচিত্র খচিত পতাকা অর্জনের মাস এলো ফিরে। এ ভূ-ভাগের সবচেয়ে বড় অর্জন, বাঙালির সহস্র বছরের জীবন কাঁপানো ইতিহাস রচনার স্মৃতিবহ রক্তঝরা মার্চের পয়লা দিন।

Flashback: 1971

Drik Gallery-2 is one of the venues holding exhibitions as part of the ongoing Chobi Mela V. The photography exhibition titled, "Bangladesh 1971," featuring our Liberation War ended at Drik on February 9.

A photographer looks back at 1971

In conversation with Naibuddin Ahmed

With great risk veteran photographer Naibuddin Ahmed captured scathing images of brutality and how people survived the terror unleashed by the Pakistani army in 1971 that helped publicise the war to the world. These images now survive as documents of the Liberation War.