July revolution lives on as anti-July forces are out to pounce: Alam

Chief Adviser’s Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam said that the July movement is still alive, as forces opposing it are regrouping and preparing to strike, reports BSS.

“The forces that opposed July haven’t disappeared. They are waiting, watching and preparing to pounce,” the press secretary said in a statement posted on his verified Facebook account on Sunday (May 4).

"Over the past nine months, I’ve realised that July was not the end. The revolution it symbolises isn't confined to a single moment—it's an ongoing battle that must be fought every day," he said.

He stated that the country now faces a clash between two competing visions for Bangladesh. One aspires to a democratic, free, and progressive nation, while the other is a kleptocratic, dynastic, Chetonazi regime clinging to the ghosts of its corrupt past, Alam said.

“And make no mistake: the moment you relax, the moment you think the fight is over, they reappear—with violence, with propaganda, with venom,” he added.

“Because if you don’t, your opponents will gladly replace it with their fiction. Just look at the fate of the Biharis. Yes, some were collaborators during the Liberation War. But the vast majority were caught in the crossfire—massacred, marginalised, and silenced,” he said.

He also said generations born in the Geneva camps now grow up in shame, denied the right even to tell their own stories.“That cannot be our fate.”

He said the fight for a New Bangladesh is not just political but it is personal too. “Wherever life takes me from here, one thing is certain: I won’t leave the streets. I won’t stop speaking about the massacres of July.