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The Chief Advisor to the Interim Government, Professor Muhammad Yunus, read out the July Declaration at a program titled ‘36 July Celebration’ at Manik Mia Avenue in the capital on Tuesday.
Read more about what’s in the July anno
The program is being held there to mark the anniversary of the July Uprising. Professor Muhammad Yunus read out the July Declaration this afternoon at a program organized by the Ministry of Cultural Affairs. Leaders of various political parties, students and the public were present at the time.
The July Declaration is a document of the July Uprising of 2024, through which the July Uprising will be recognized statewide and constitutionally.
The July Declaration has been given to the media by the Chief Advisor’s Press Wing.July Declaration
1. Whereas, in the long struggle against colonialism, the people of this land stood up against the oppression and exploitation of the Pakistani dictators for 23 years and, by building mass resistance against the indiscriminate genocide, declared independence on 26 March 1971 and established the state of Bangladesh through a bloody war of liberation for the purpose of national liberation;
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2. Whereas, through a long movement and struggle, the entire people of Bangladesh have made the utmost sacrifices to realize the desire to build a liberal democratic state on the basis of equality, human dignity and social justice as stated in the Declaration of Independence in this land;
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3. Whereas, as a result of the process of drafting the 1972 Constitution of independent Bangladesh, its structural weaknesses and misuse, the post-independence Awami League government failed to fulfill the people’s aspirations of the Liberation War and undermined the effectiveness of democracy and state institutions;
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4. Whereas the post-independence Awami League government, contrary to the democratic system of governance that was the main motto of independence, established a constitutional one-party regime in the name of Baksal and took away the freedom of expression and the judiciary, in response to which a united revolution of the sepoys and the people took place in the country on 7 November 1975 and later the path was paved for the reintroduction of multi-party democracy, expression and independence of the judiciary instead of the one-party Baksal system,
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5. Whereas in the eighties, through the continuous struggle of the students and the people against the military dictatorship for nine long years, the mass uprising of 1990 took place and the parliamentary democratic regime was reintroduced in 1991.
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6. Whereas the democratic process of changing the government was disrupted by domestic and foreign conspiracies, the path was paved for Sheikh Hasina’s exclusive power, dominance and fascism in Bangladesh through the conspiratorial system of 1/11;
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7. Whereas, with the aim of establishing the fascist, undemocratic and anti-people regime of the last sixteen long years and with the intention of fulfilling the most extreme desire to establish a one-party state system, illegal and undemocratic changes were made to the constitution, which paved the way for the establishment of one-party monopoly power and dominance;
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8. Whereas, the misrule, disappearances, extrajudicial killings, deprivation of freedom of expression and amendment and change of the constitution for the interests of one party by Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League government destroyed all state and constitutional institutions of Bangladesh;
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9. Whereas, during the tenure of the Hasina government, an extremely anti-people, dictatorial and human rights-abusing force led by her transformed Bangladesh into a fascist, mafia and failed state, tarnishing the image of Bangladesh internationally;
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10. Whereas, under the fascist leadership of Sheikh Hasina, the past corrupt Awami League government, through unlimited corruption, bank looting, money laundering and destruction of economic institutions, has devastated Bangladesh and its immense economic potential and endangered its environment, biodiversity and climate;
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11. Whereas people from all walks of life, including political parties, students and labor organizations, have been continuously fighting against Sheikh Hasina’s fascist government for the past sixteen years, and have been subjected to imprisonment, oppression, attacks and cases, disappearances and murders and extrajudicial killings;
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12. Whereas the just movement of the people of this country against the unjust domination, exploitation and surveillance of foreign states in Bangladesh has been suppressed by the Awami League government, which is a puppet of external powers, through the use of brutal force;
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13. Whereas, in order to continue in power illegally, the Awami League government deprived the people of this country of their right to vote and representation in three farce elections (the 2014, 2018 and 2024 national elections);
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14. Whereas, during the Awami League period, dissident political leaders, activists, students and youth were brutally tortured and exclusive party recruitment and quota-based discrimination in government jobs led to extreme anger among students, job seekers and citizens;
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15. Whereas, the extreme oppression of opposition political parties and organizations has created public anger for a long time and the people have continued their fight against fascism by adopting all legal processes;
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16. Whereas, during the anti-discrimination student movement to abolish the discriminatory quota system in government jobs and prevent corruption, the Awami League government carried out widespread repression, barbaric torture and inhumane killings, as a result of which the violent mass protests of students and the public, regardless of party or opinion, throughout the country turned into a mass uprising;
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17. Whereas people from all walks of life, including political parties, religious, social, cultural, professional and labor organizations, joined the indomitable student uprising against the fascist forces, and the Awami fascist forces killed about a thousand people, including women and children, on the streets.
