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 23:50:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 95479874 https://www.genocidebangladesh.org/1959/ Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:50:39 +0000 https://www.genocidebangladesh.org/?p=269 October: On the first anniversary of ‘his revolution’ President Ayub Khan promulgated an ordinance for setting up “basic democracies,” or small units of local self-government in the country. There would be around 120000 such units, each representing from 1000 to 15000 citizens. “Democracy has been brought to the very doorstep of the people,” he said.

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