BSS, Dhaka

Speaker of the parliament Hafiz Uddin Ahmad yesterday said the July Museum will inspire future generations by preserving the history of resistance against autocracy.

“The history of people’s resistance will remain preserved as long as this museum exists,” he told reporters after visiting the July Mass Uprising Memorial Museum alongside Deputy Speaker Barrister Kayser Kamal and Cultural Affairs Minister Nitai Roy Chowdhury in the capital.

The speaker said the museum portrays repression, violence and killings during the 16-year rule of former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, which he described as an “autocratic mafia regime” sustained through “staged and controversial elections”.

Referring to incidents of enforced disappearances under the previous government, Hafiz Uddin said Sheikh Hasina’s expressions of sympathy toward victims’ families had become “a stain in history”.

He added that the sacrifices made by ordinary people in democratic and anti-autocracy movements between 1971 and 2024 were unparalleled in the struggle to establish democracy in the country, according to a press release.

At the briefing, the cultural affairs minister said the museum will open to the public by late July or early August.