The Bangladesh interim government led by Mohammad Yunus has issued a new ordinance redefining the term "freedom fighter" (Bir Muktijoddha), a move that has led to the removal of the status from Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and over 400 other prominent figures of the country’s Liberation War of 1971.
The ordinance, published by the Legislative and Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Ministry of Law on Tuesday, states that political leaders such as Syed Nazrul Islam, Tajuddin Ahmad, M Mansur Ali, and AHM Qamaruzzaman will no longer be officially recognised as freedom fighters.
Instead, they will now be classified as “associates of the Liberation War” (Muktijuddher Shohojogi).
