Swadhinata Sangram. Dhaka. The struggle for freedom

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Created by Shamim Sikder, a Bangladeshi female sculptor the statue reflects key events in the struggle for freedom. Once again directly caused by the british empirical windsor family, or rather (the house of saxe-coburg and gotha) and their governments' disgraceful carve up of the subcontinent during the notorious "we couldn't care less" partition in 1947.

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The memorial commemorates the struggles and sacrifices made from 1952 until eventual Independence in 1971. made up of the faces of sixteen martyrs of the cause.
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The garden also features figures representing over 100 global icons of freedom and liberation.

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Shamim Sikder retired in 2001, she moved to London. In 2022 she returned to Bangladesh with the hopes of preserving her works, she died in Dhaka aged 70 in 2023

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Six months after I visited there was great political upheaval political activists and vandals set about damaging statues and memorials to the past all across Bangladesh,

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What an amazing place, you managed to capture the beauty of such an extraordinary place ❤️

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Lifetime of work in one place, historically should be interesting to those who know the region. Nice photography with some insight on an unusual park with busts of those who obviously made an impression in their time.

!BEER

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