1953 – Bangladesh Genocide Archive https://www.genocidebangladesh.org An online archive of chronology of events, documentations, audio, video, images, media reports and eyewitness accounts of the 1971 Genocide in Bangladesh in the hands of Pakistan army. Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:53:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 95479874 1953 https://www.genocidebangladesh.org/1953/ Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:53:44 +0000 https://www.genocidebangladesh.org/?p=263 Sheikh Mujib in the Fifties

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman during the fifties

April – Awami Muslim League becomes Awami League, reflecting its evolution into a more secular organization. Sheikh Mujib was made the party’s general secretary.

September – Sher-e-Bangla Abul Kasem Fazlul Huq forms Krishak Sramik Party.

]]> 263 Sher-e-Bangla forms Krishak Sramik Party https://www.genocidebangladesh.org/sher-e-bangla-forms-krishak-sramik-party/ Fri, 11 Sep 1953 15:25:26 +0000 https://www.genocidebangladesh.org/?p=76 September, 1953

Abul Kasem Fazlul Huq, also known as the “Tiger of Bengal,” who had in 1940 moved the Lahore Resolution calling for a separate land for the Indian Muslims about to gain independence from the British Raj, forms his own Krishak Sramik Party (the Peasant and Labor Party).

A biography of Sher-e-Bangla A. K. Fazlul Huq

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