Razakar slogans
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The Razakar slogans were a series of protest chants used during the 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement, beginning on 14 July 2024. The slogans included,
Bengali:
তুমি কে? আমি কে?
রাজাকার! রাজাকার!
কে বলেছে? কে বলেছে?
স্বৈরাচার! স্বৈরাচার
Romanized:
Tumi Kē? Ami Kē?
Rājākār! Rājākār!
Kē Bolēcchē? Kē Bolēcchē?
Shoirāchār! Shoirāchār!
Translation:
Who are you? Who am I?
Razakar! Razakar!
Who has said? Who has said?
Autocrat! Autocrat!
Which emerged following Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina referred to the protesting students as "grandchildren of Razakars" during a press conference. The slogans later became the main rallying cry of the movement and played a significant role in the July Revolution. Moreover, the slogans have either been praised as stance against "monopolistic" political tagging binary between freedom fighter (or in favour power of liberation) and Razakar (or opposite power of liberation) by contemporary autocratic Awami League government to defend it's tyranny and autocracy, or have also been criticised claiming as "opposite of dominant political narrative" (or counter-narrative) of Bangladesh liberation war. Moreover, the slogans have either been praised as a against "strategic" political tagging binary between freedom fighter (or in favour power of liberation) and Razakar (or opposite power of liberation) by contemporary autocratic Awami League government to defend it's tyranny and autocracy, or have also been criticised claiming as "opposite of dominant political narrative" (or counter-narrative) of Bangladesh liberation war.