Who are you? Who am I? Razakar!: war cry...

Over a hundred people were killed as thousands of protestors in bangladesh rushed to the streets to voice their opposition to the distribution of government employment, with the cry "Razakar, Razakar!" resonating throughout the country. In order to preserve law and order, the government of Bangladesh was compelled by the violence there to implement a curfew and send army personnel into the streets. The number of violent deaths has risen to 115.

More than eight hundred indian students have returned home as a result of the continuous unrest. Up till Friday, 778 indian students had returned via different land ports. 186 more individuals, 98 from nepal and 88 from India, left Meghalaya on Saturday and entered india again through the Dawki integrated checkpoint in the West Jaintia Hills area.

The Razakars: who are they?

The word "Razakar" is considered derogatory in Bangladesh. The slogan was being chanted by students after Bangladeshi prime minister Sheikh Hasina called those who oppose job quotas for relatives of independence heroes "Razakar." Razakar are people who are thought to have assisted the Pakistani army during the war of Independence in 1971. The word "volunteer" or "helper" in Persian and Urdu. The indian Express stated that anthropologist Nayanika Mookherjee claims it is abused. According to the article, the majority of the Razakars were Bihari Muslims who spoke urdu and religious organizations like Jamaat-e-Islami, Al Badr, and Al Shams that resisted the division of pakistan into east and West.

In a different article, Dr. Muntasir Mamoon, Bangabandhu Chair at Chittagong university in bangladesh, claimed that the word's true origins are in Hyderabad, modern-day India, and that it is actually called "Rezakar."

The term 'Rezakar' became 'Razakar' in Bengali, Mamoon said to Express, adding that they became spies for the pakistan army and were armed to battle the Mukti Joddha (those who fight for independence and freedom). Among the various groups that comprised the Anti-Liberation army were the Razakars.

Bangladesh published a list of 10,789 Razakars who were employed by the Pakistani military in 2019, according to The Tribune in Pakistan. The Razakar force was alleged to have been founded by AKM Yusuf, a prominent figure in the extremist Jamaat-e-Islami. Crimes against humanity were the reason for his arrest in May 2013. However, in 2014, while incarcerated, he passed away from cardiac arrest. india Today reports that during the 1971 bangladesh Liberation war, the Pakistani military received assistance from the Razakars, a locally recruited paramilitary force led by General Tikka Khan. The Razakars were primarily pro-Pakistani Bengalis and Biharis, and they participated in raids, mass rapes and killings, torture, and arson.