A fresh list of the Freedom Fighters will be published in January next year, says Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque.
"It will be released in January. The old list available on the [ministry's] website will be withheld and the government has decided to exclude names of people, who were not actually Freedom Fighters, after verification," he said on Saturday (Dec 28).
The minister's remarks came at the inauguration of memorial in Jashore for fallen Freedom Fighters and members of allied forces of the 1971 War Independence.
"Following verifications, Freedom Fighters will recieve ID cards on March 26, which will prevent from any kind of fraud," said Haque.
The minister asked Freedom Fighters to submit their photographs to their respective Upazila administration chief (UNO) by Jan 15.
The Liberation War affair minister's pledge of a fresh list of Freedom Fighters comes weeks after his ministry suspended a controversial and flawed list of 1971 collaborators (Razakars) three days after releasing it.
Many freedom fighters were utterly shocked to see their names on the list of Razakars ,who collaborated with the Pakistan occupation army in carrying out mass killings and atrocities against the Bangalees during the 1971 Liberation War.
At least 25 freedom fighters or organisers of the war on the list published a day before Victory Day, celebrated on Dec 16.