Yr 2024 in superb historical past of Bangladesh – Bd24live

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The 12 months 2024 has turning into an immortal pillar of Bangladesh’s historical past. This can be a 12 months of victory for the nation and the folks because the nation started a brand new journey in that outgoing 12 months. This superb 12 months will stay as part of not solely Bangladesh but additionally the world’s historical past.

The nation has been free of the clutches of a brutal dictatorship on this planet due to the indomitable wrestle of the scholars and the plenty and spilling of blood by over a thousand of martyrs.

Bangladesh was named The Economist’s nation of the 12 months in 2024. The brand new technology has freed the nation from the clutches of a monster. Via the united wrestle and sacrifice of the scholars and the plenty, the nation has been free of dictatorial regime and authoritarian aggression by means of a uncommon mass rebellion within the up to date world. This rebellion of the plenty has shocked the entire world.

This rebellion will encourage Bangladesh to outlive for the foreseeable future with an impartial and sovereign existence. This initiation of nationwide unity and solidarity in opposition to evil forces has been carried out within the blood of the folks of this nation. This power will awaken within the face of any hostility in future.

Bangladesh will transfer ahead on a journey of recent prosperity with mixed power of its residents regardless of opinions, religions, castes and creeds.

July-August 2024 is a turning level in historical past that may by no means be misplaced. The pages of the calendar will flip, however 2024 will stay as monumental to the glory of the nation’s nationwide historical past for hundreds of years. The 12 months marked by the quantity 2024 has ended, however the nation won’t say goodbye to 2024, this 12 months shall be mirrored within the nation’s reminiscences and deeds like an countless July.

After 1971, 2024 is probably the most eventful 12 months within the historical past of Bangladesh. The nation had entered a horrible darkness with homicide, oppression, torture and limitless looting. The nation was helpless. For 15 years, folks from all walks of life from the opposition political events had been victims of enforced disappearances, murders, torture, thousands and thousands of false instances, and brutal killings.

In 2024, the folks joined the combat for united resistance centered on the scholar motion in opposition to discrimination. In July-August 2024, a whole lot of martyrs and hundreds of injured college students and the general public raised the flag of victory on the blood-soaked streets of historical past.

The world’s worst, brutal dictatorship fell because of the resistance of the unarmed public in opposition to the armed loyal forces of the dictatorship and the occasion goons and terrorists. Dictator Hasina who carried out genocide fled the nation on August 5 to avoid wasting her life. Her ministers, MPs and occasion leaders and activists fled.

After independence, Sheikh Mujib’s dictatorial rule prompted excessive devastation to the nation, hundreds of individuals had been subjected to enforced disappearances and murders. It pushed thousands and thousands of individuals in direction of famine by plundering and turning the nation right into a bottomless basket. Sheikh Hasina adopted the identical path of her father and seized state energy for 15 consecutive years by means of farcical election with out voting. The dictatorial regime fell on August 5, 2024.

Historic occasions of the 12 months:

JULY-AUGUST MASS UPRISING

The 12 months 2024 is an eventful one within the historical past of Bangladesh. This 12 months has taken its place in historical past because the 12 months of the July mass rebellion and the autumn of the dictatorship. This was the ultimate part of the overthrow of the 15-year dictatorship. The scholars’ anti-discrimination motion step by step changed into a one-point motion to overthrow the dictator Sheikh Hasina.

On June 5, 2024, the quota reform motion began anew after the Excessive Courtroom Division of the Supreme Courtroom of Bangladesh declared the round issued by the Bangladesh authorities on October 4, 2018, unlawful.

This motion started to accentuate from mid-July. After Rangpur Begum Rokeya College pupil Abu Sayeed was shot useless by police firing on July 16, sparked a nationwide motion together with all private and non-private universities and schools. This steady motion changed into a one-point demand for Sheikh Hasina’s resignation on August 3.

When the then Sheikh Hasina-led authorities started a brutal crackdown on this motion, it changed into a non-cooperation motion. Within the face of this mass rebellion, the autocratic Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was pressured to resign on August 5 and flee to India.

Bangladesh fell right into a constitutional disaster at the moment and three days later, Nobel laureate and world-renowned persona Professor Dr. Muhammad Yunus took over the accountability of the interim authorities because the chief adviser. A council of advisers was fashioned beneath his management.

Some notable occasions from the start of the 12 months:

PROFESSOR DR. MUHAMMAD YUNUS WAS SENTENCED IN HASINA’S TALISMAN COURT

At the start of 2024, on January 1, in a courtroom managed by the Sheikh Hasina authorities, Professor Dr. Muhammad Yunus has been sentenced to 6 months in jail for violating the labor legislation.

JANUARY 7 ONE-SIDED ELECTION

The twelfth Nationwide Parliament election was held unilaterally with out an opposition occasion on January 7 by means of the Election Fee beneath the autocracy of Sheikh Hasina.

Earlier than this, the tenth Nationwide Parliament election on January 5, 2014, the eleventh Nationwide Parliament election on December 30, 2018, and the newest twelfth Common Election on January 7, 2024 had been a betrayal of the nation and the nation. The pretend election of the twelfth Nationwide Parliament in 2024 created the backdrop for the autumn of Sheikh Hasina. The folks of the nation turned disillusioned and offended. Folks’s unity was fashioned in opposition to the Hasina authorities.

TEXTBOOK CONTROVERSY

On January 19, on the Establishment of Diploma Engineers, Bangladesh in Kakrail within the capital, Asif Mahtab Utsho, a part-time instructor at BRAC College, tore a web page from a nationwide curriculum textbook and got here into dialogue. The difficulty was extensively mentioned on social media.

Later, Asif Mahtab was dismissed from BRAC College.

In that seminar, he alleged, “College students are being brainwashed by discussing transgender within the seventh grade historical past and social science books.” At the moment, he tore the web page of Sharifa’s story within the chapter ‘Similarities and Variations in Folks’ of the seventh grade guide.

On September 28, the coordination committee fashioned to revise the textbooks ready and printed by the Nationwide Curriculum and Textbook Board (NCTB) in Bangladesh was dissolved 13 days after its formation.

After this, there was widespread dialogue and criticism on social media. Nevertheless, after the dissolution of the committee, no motive was talked about or defined by the NCTB or the Ministry of Schooling.

FIRE ON BAILEY ROAD

The worst hearth of this 12 months occurred on February 29. A complete of 46 folks died in a fireplace in a multi-storey constructing known as Inexperienced Cozy on Bailey Street in Dhaka metropolis. The constructing housed a number of eating places and retailers, together with Kacchi Bhai Restaurant, Samsung Showroom, Gadget and Gear, Illini, Khana’s and Pizza Inn. As there have been eating places on each ground of all the constructing, fuel cylinders had been saved within the constructing, which prompted the hearth to unfold rapidly.

JULY-AUGUST UPRISING

Abu Sayeed was an activist within the quota reform motion in Bangladesh in 2024. Abu Sayeed joined this motion because the coordinator of Begum Rokeya College, Rangpur. He performed a number one position within the quota motion in Rangpur college and the Rangpur area. Abu Sayeed was martyred in police firing on July 16 on this motion. Quickly after, a large motion unfold throughout the nation.

On July 20, 2024, the Sheikh Hasina authorities deployed the military and imposed a curfew throughout the nation.

In mild of the decision of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Courtroom, the federal government issued a notification on the abolition of quota on the evening of July 22 to regulate the state of affairs.

On July 27, ‘block raids’ had been began by dividing the realm. Greater than 6,000 folks had been arrested throughout the nation. Greater than 550 instances had been filed.

Your complete nation got here to a standstill within the motion after announcement of one-point demand of resignation of the federal government on August 3.

On the orders of Sheikh Hasina, a whole lot of individuals had been killed by police and varied legislation enforcement companies and hundreds of protesters had been injured. Sniper rifles and helicopters had been used to suppress the motion.

On August 4, a lot of college students and folks had been killed and hundreds had been injured in police assaults at varied factors in Dhaka through the anti-discrimination motion rally. On that day, a blockade programme known as ‘March to Dhaka’ was introduced for the subsequent day August 5.

On August 5, thousands and thousands of individuals took to the streets of Dhaka. All of the streets had been blocked in processions in direction of Ganabhaban, the official residence of dictator Hasina. Amid the huge mass-uprising, dictator Sheikh Hasina fled the nation in concern of her life.

Nobel laureate Professor Dr. Muhammad Yunus was sworn -in because the chief advisor of a 17-member interim authorities on August 8.

On Saturday, August 10, Chief Adviser Professor Dr. Muhammad Yunus went to the home of Shaheed Abu Sayeed in Rangpur.

On August 10, Syed Refaat Ahmed was appointed because the chief justice.
On August 25, the Chief Adviser delivered an vital maiden speech to the nation.

DEALING WITH FLOODS IN MID-AUGUST

Instantly after the interim authorities assumed workplace, a flash flood struck the japanese area of the nation in late August. Twelve districts, together with Feni, had been submerged within the flood. The flood prompted large injury to property and lack of lives. The federal government took concerted steps to cope with this flood. Folks from all around the nation, together with the scholar motion, stood by the flood victims.

Because of the torrential rains that got here down from Northeastern Indian state of Tripura and some days of heavy rain, 11 districts of the nation had been hit by extreme floods. The districts are – Feni, Cumilla, Noakhali, Lakshmipur, Brahmanbaria, Chattogram, Cox’s Bazar, Khagrachhari, Sylhet, Moulvibazar and Habiganj. Other than this, Rangamati district was flooded.

198 WORLD LEADERS SUPPORT FOR DR. YUNUS

The folks of Bangladesh and their chief adviser Dr. Muhammad Yunus have been strongly supported by 198 world leaders. Amongst them are former US President Barack Obama and at the very least 92 Nobel laureates.

On September 4, a report by the influential US media outlet Washington Put up printed an announcement signed by the 198 world leaders.

In it, world leaders expressed their help for the interim authorities led by Dr. Muhammad Yunus and the folks of Bangladesh, saying, ‘We lengthen our help and greatest needs to Professor Muhammad Yunus, the chief adviser to the interim authorities of Bangladesh and Nobel laureate.’

They stated, ‘Like others in Bangladesh, Professor Yunus has additionally been subjected to torture by the dictatorship. He took cost of the federal government after the dictatorial regime was overthrown by means of a student-led democratic motion.’

“We’re proud to have supported Professor Yunus for years. That is the start of a brand new daybreak in Bangladesh. We want peace and success to the frequent folks of Bangladesh within the days forward.”

NAHID ISLAM IN TIME MAGAZINE’S 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL LIST

Nahid Islam, one of many coordinators of the anti-discrimination pupil motion in Bangladesh and knowledge and broadcasting adviser, has been included in Time Journal’s ‘Time 100 Subsequent’ 2024 listing.

This well-known journal publishes a listing of the 100 most influential folks on this planet yearly.

The listing was printed on October 2. Nahid Islam is within the Rising Leaders class.

Time Journal stated about Nahid Islam: ‘He performed a task in eradicating probably the most highly effective individuals on this planet from energy earlier than he turned 26. Nahid Islam, who studied sociology, is likely one of the pupil leaders who launched a nationwide motion in opposition to Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.’

DR. MUHAMMAD YUNUS AMONG TOP 10 PERSONALITIES IN NATURE MAGAZINE

Interim authorities’s Chief Adviser Dr. Muhammad Yunus has been included within the listing of prime 10 personalities within the world-renowned science journal Nature. Nature has known as him a ‘nation builder’.

The report printed on the Nature web site on December 9 saying that this listing is a recognition of how researchers are constructing the world by making vital contributions within the fields of science, know-how, engineering and drugs.

Initiative to publish a white paper on corruption and looting of Awami League regime

On August 21, the federal government introduced the formation of a committee headed by economist Debapriya Bhattacharya to organize a white paper.

On December 1, the committee submitted the white paper to the chief adviser. The white paper highlighted details about the unlawful smuggling of $234 billion from Bangladesh by means of 28 methods of corruption within the final 15 years.

FIRE AT SECRETARIAT

The hearth of this 12 months occurred on the extremely secured Secretariat complicated on December 26. Paperwork of at the very least 5 ministries and divisions have been burned as fires ravaged a part of Constructing-7 of the Secretariat for nearly 10 hours.