Overview

• The Ministry of Housing and Public Works led an overnight demolition with a bulldozer after midnight on July 13 under police supervision.
• Officer-in-Charge Khalid Mansur said he was informed in advance to prevent unrest and that no crowds or resistance formed.
• Projonmo Chattar, which symbolized the 1971 Liberation War and fueled the 2013 Shahbagh justice movement, now lies partially in rubble.
• In April radicals destroyed the Martyred Intellectuals Memorial in Mirpur, marking a series of Liberation War monument removals under the interim government.
• Officials plan to erect a new memorial at the site to commemorate July demonstrations but have not released a timetable or design details.