The Mohammad Yunus-led interim authorities of Bangladesh has enacted a brand new ordinance that alters the definition of “freedom fighter” (Bir Muktijoddha). This determination has resulted within the revocation of the standing for Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and greater than 400 different notable people from the nation’s 1971 Liberation Conflict.
The ordinance, amending the Nationwide Freedom Fighters Council Act and redefining the time period freedom fighters, issued on Tuesday evening talked about that each one Members of the Nationwide Meeting (MNAs) and Members of the Provincial Meeting (MPAs) who had been affiliated with the wartime provisional authorities of Bangladesh (Mujibnagar Authorities) and later thought to be members of the post-war constituent meeting will any longer be thought-about as “associates of the Liberation Conflict” slightly than “freedom fighters.”
Moreover, the associates underneath the brand new class additionally included the professionals who stayed overseas and contributed to the Liberation Conflict and the Bangladeshi residents who had been instrumental in shaping international opinions; individuals who labored as officers and workers of the Authorities of Bangladesh (Mujibnagar authorities) shaped through the liberation conflict, physicians, nurses and different assistants employed by the Mujibnagar authorities.
Moreover, all of the artistes and crew members of Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra and all of the Bangladeshi journalists in and outdoors of the nation who had been actively concerned in supporting the Liberation Conflict and Swadhin Bangla Soccer Workforce additionally fell underneath the definition, Bangladeshi main day by day Prothom Alo reported.
The ordinance will now have an effect on the standing of ‘Bangabandhu’ Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, former Prime Minister Tajuddin Ahmad, former performing President Syed Nazrul Islam Tajuddin Ahmad, and greater than 400 others who had been members of the constituent meeting and till now had been recognised as freedom fighters.
In response to the brand new ordinance, the Liberation Conflict is outlined as “The conflict waged from March 26 to December 16, 1971, to ascertain equality, human dignity and social justice for the folks of Bangladesh as an impartial democratic state in opposition to the invading and occupying Pakistani armed forces and their collaborators — the Razakars, Al-Badr, Al-Shams, Muslim League, Jamaat-e-Islami, Nezame-Islam, and the Peace Committee.”
“Bir Muktijoddha (Freedom fighter) is somebody who, between March 26 and December 16, 1971, both ready for conflict and obtained coaching inside villages throughout the nation or crossed the border into India to enrol in numerous coaching camps with the purpose of taking part within the Liberation Conflict. These people actively took half within the conflict in opposition to the occupying and invading Pakistani armed forces and their native collaborators in the direction of reaching Bangladesh’s independence,” it added.
The newly issued ordinance additionally dropped the title ‘Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’ and deleted the parts of the regulation that had been talked about in his title.
Liberation Conflict researcher Afsan Chowdhury referred to as the transfer a bureaucratic determination.
“We have now seen this since 1972 — each time a brand new authorities involves energy, they create a brand new listing of freedom fighters. There are private advantages concerned,” he mentioned, chatting with the Bangladeshi newspaper The Day by day Star.
“Individuals is not going to settle for this. The Liberation Conflict will stay because it at all times has been — within the hearts of the overall folks,” he added.