স্মৃতিস্তম্ভ, জাদুঘর ও বার্ষিকী — বাংলাদেশ কীভাবে অভ্যুত্থান ও শহীদদের স্মরণ করে।
news article2024-07-16
This document is a memorial website dedicated to victims of the Bangladesh Student Movement of July 2024, cataloging individuals who died during protests for justice and democracy. The site records 411 total martyrs across 64 districts, with 33,000 injured over 28 days of protest. The main topics covered include a numbered registry of individual victims with their names, affiliations (mostly students from various Bangladeshi universities and colleges), ages, and dates of death, with the earliest deaths recorded on July 16, 2024. The site is a privately created, non-political archive built to preserve the memory of the movement, with data sourced from online groups and community contributions.
Source: July Archive
news article2024-07-16
"Bravehearts" is a commemorative news article published by The Business Standard (Bangladesh) that pays tribute to the martyrs and survivors of Bangladesh's July Revolution of 2024, a political uprising that began as a quota reform protest and escalated into a nationwide movement resulting in an estimated 700–1,000 deaths between July 16 and August 5, 2024, under the Hasina regime. The article profiles specific victims by name, including a garment worker, teenagers, and a young mother killed by a stray bullet, as well as survivors who suffered severe injuries such as amputations and blindness. It highlights iconic figures like Abu Sayeed, whose viral video of facing police gunfire with arms outstretched became a symbol of the movement. The piece also documents the revolution's broader legacy, including institutional memorials, government compensation efforts, policy discussions around police reform, and The Business Standard's own role in chronicling the human cost of the uprising as a historical record.
Source: The Business Standard
news article2024-07-05
This document is a special archive from The Daily Star (Bangladesh) commemorating the July 2024 uprising that led to the fall of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina after 15 years in power. It began as a student-led protest against Bangladesh's government job quota system but escalated into a nationwide mass movement against authoritarian rule, drawing in garment workers, teachers, doctors, and ordinary citizens across class and ideological lines. The archive covers three main phases: The Uprising (how protests spread, the role of women, social media, and ordinary citizens), State Violence (including security force crackdowns, live ammunition use, internet shutdowns, enforced disappearances, and evidence that Hasina personally ordered forces to open fire), and The Reckoning (Hasina's ouster on August 5, 2024, and the formation of an interim government under Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus). Investigations revealed that 95% of the 204 analyzed victims were killed by bullets, with 113 struck by live rounds primarily to the head, chest, and abdomen.
Source: The Daily Star
news article2024-07-01
The document is a webpage for the July Mass Uprising Hall, a dedicated gallery at the Chittagong University (CU) Museum in Bangladesh. The hall serves as a memorial commemorating the martyrs of the July 2024 uprising in Bangladesh, with a particular focus on two History Department students from the University of Chittagong — Hridoy Chandra Tarua and Md. Farhad Hossain — whose blood-stained clothing is preserved and displayed as central artifacts. The main topics covered include the physical memorial exhibit and its artifacts, the museum's efforts to build a digital archive on the July Uprising for scholarly research, key slogans from the movement, profiles of the two martyred students, and a list of martyrs. The page also features solidarity statements from figures such as Tariq Ali, graffiti documentation from Chittagong, and links to related newspaper coverage in outlets including The Guardian and The New York Times.
Source: Chittagong University Museum
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This Wikipedia article describes the July Memorial Monument located in Shahbag, Dhaka, Bangladesh — an 18-foot-tall concrete public monument built to honor the martyrs of the July 2024 uprising in Bangladesh, a widespread protest movement against government negligence and demands for political accountability. The monument features inscriptions of slogans, graffiti, and poems from the revolution, and was installed as part of a nationwide initiative to erect similar memorials across all 64 districts of Bangladesh. It is situated in the Shahbagh area of Dhaka, near key administrative and educational institutions, and was inaugurated on 5 August 2025.
Source: Wikipedia contributors
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This Wikipedia article describes the July Martyr's Monuments, a government initiative by Bangladesh to construct memorial monuments across all 64 districts of the country, commemorating victims of the July massacre and the broader July Uprising. The project was announced in June 2025, with a 37-member national committee formed to oversee construction, and each monument allocated approximately ৳1,400,000 (US$11,000) in funding. The article covers the background of the initiative, construction progress across multiple districts (beginning July 9, 2025, with a completion deadline of August 5, 2025), and the architectural design — an 18-foot steel pillar on a concrete platform with internal lighting and engraved inscriptions. Notably, several existing structures were demolished to make way for the monuments, including an Awami League office in Faridpur and a Sheikh Mujibur Rahman mural in Jashore, and the first completed monument in Narayanganj bears the names of 21 people killed in the July massacre.
Source: Wikipedia contributors
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This news article from The Daily Star (Bangladesh), dated August 2, 2026, reports that the Bangladeshi government plans to convert Gono Bhaban — the former prime minister's residence associated with Sheikh Hasina's government — into the "July Uprising Memorial Museum" by August 5, 2026. The project has a total estimated cost of Tk 111 crore, split between two contractors: Shuvra Traders handling electrical/mechanical works (Tk 40.83 crore) and Civil Engineers Ltd handling structural/civil works (Tk 70.37 crore). Both contracts were approved via direct procurement at a meeting of the Economic Affairs Advisory Committee, chaired by Financial Advisor Salehuddin Ahmed, with the original repurposing decision having been made on December 24 of the previous year.
Source: The Daily Star