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Kiran Bala Bora Born 1904 (1904) North Haiborgaon, Nagaon, Assam, India Died January 1993 (aged 88–89) Panigaon Choiali, Nagaon, Assam, India Occupation(s) Freedom Fighter, Social Activist Years active 1919–1947 Known for Social Reformer Spouse Sanat Ram Bora Children 6 Parents Kamal Chandra Pandit (father) Saroj Aidew (mother) Kiran Bala Bora (1904 - 8 January 1993) was a freedom fighter ...
A subset of Founding Fathers of Pakistan met in Lahore in 1940 to discuss the idea of Pakistan. The Founders and activists of the Pakistan Movement, also known as Founding Fathers of Pakistan (Urdu:بانیانِ پاکستان; Romanization lit.:bəŋɨaɪaɪ-e-Pəkɨstəŋ), were the political leaders and statespersons who participated in the success of the political movement, following the ...
The Indians referred to the Niomito Bahini as "Mukti Fauj", and the Gonnobahini were called "freedom fighters". [65] [11] M. A. G. Osmani, a Bengali veteran of the British Raj forces in World War II and the Pakistan army, established the Bangladesh Armed Forces on 4 April 1971.
Afghan mujahideen were considered freedom fighters by US president Ronald Reagan (1985 photo). A freedom fighter is a person engaged in a struggle to achieve political freedom, particularly against an established government. [1] [2] The term is typically reserved for those who are actively involved in armed or otherwise violent rebellion. [3]
Kamala Das Gupta (11 March 1907 – 19 July 2000) was an Indian freedom fighter from Bengal region. Early life. Das Gupta was born in 1907, ... [4] and was arrested ...
[4]: 6 The South African historian Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni noted that far from being the conforming to the popular stereotype of "freedom-fighters", the ZANLA was a rigidly hierarchical organization whose cadres were expected to unconditionally obey orders, and which regularly conducted purges to liquidate any cadres who differed even in the ...
Savimbi later drew the praise of U.S. President Ronald Reagan, who hailed him as a freedom fighter and spoke of Savimbi winning a victory that "electrifies the world" while others hinted at a much darker regime, dismissing Savimbi as a power-hungry propagandist.
And for his family and friends, he was much more: a husband, a father, a son, a brother, a confidant, a self-described freedom fighter. Shannen L. Hill [ 171 ] Woods held the view that Biko had filled the vacuum within the country's African nationalist movement that arose in the late 1960s following the imprisonment of Nelson Mandela and the ...