Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Monday shared pictures of broken statues at the Liberation War Memorial Complex and Amrakanan in Bangladesh’s Mujibnagar, saying they were destroyed by ...

Liberation War of Bangladesh. ... Bangladesh was liberated from the Pakistan occupation forces following a bloody nine-month war. These pictures were taken in December, 1971.

The word means “volunteers” and is considered derogatory in Bangladesh as it refers to people who supported the Pakistani military’s operation to quell the Bangladesh liberation war and were ...

The decision by the Bangladesh government to revisit textbooks on the 1971 Liberation War has ignited significant debate and controversy. The new textbooks state that Ziaur Rahman declared the ...

Also known as the “Liberation Army,” or the “freedom fighters,” the Mukti Bahini was a militia that fought for Bangladeshi independence from Pakistan during the Bangladesh Liberation War.