Motiur Rahman Nizami: what Wikipedia removed
Motiur Rahman Nizami led Bangladesh’s Jamaat-e-Islami and was later convicted by the International Crimes Tribunal of masterminding the Demra massacre. Through the October 6, 2023 snapshot the opening said he was “noted for leading the terror squad Al-Badr during the Bangladesh Liberation War.” Today’s opening says only that he was “accused of leading Al-Badr,” and terror appears nowhere in the article. A reader arriving now learns he was accused of leading Al-Badr and not that Wikipedia’s own opening once called it a terror squad.
The word “terror” appeared 1 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 6 October 2023. Today it appears nowhere in the article at all, references included. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.
The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot
Section titled “The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot”| word | 2010 | 2015 | 2020 | 6 October 2023 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| terror | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| islamist | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| massacre | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| genocide | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Counts are of the opening paragraph only, the part most readers, search engines and AI training sets ever quote.
What was taken out
Section titled “What was taken out”- A pronunciation notation was reworded without changing the underlying fact.
- The description of Al-Badr as a terror squad he led is gone, replaced with the softer statement that he was accused of leading Al-Badr.
- The description of his parliamentary constituency was reworded without changing the underlying fact.
- A citation quoting a call to unite against anti-Islam conspiracies is gone from the opening.
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2010 (revision 371273595):
Motiur Rahman Nizami (Bengali: মতিউর রহমান নিজামী), (born 31 March 1943) is the current chief ( Ameer ) of the Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh , which is the largest Islamic political party in Bangladesh .
2025 (revision 1296034429):
Bangladeshi politician For other people named Matiur Rahman, see Matiur Rahman (disambiguation) . ( Learn how and when to remove this message ) Motiur Rahman Nizami (Bengali: মতিউর রহমান নিজামী ; 31 March 1943 – 11 May 2016) was a politician, former Minister of Bangladesh , Islamic scholar, writer and a former Ameer of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami . He was accused of leading Al-Badr during the Bangladesh War of Independence . On 29 October 2014, he was convicted of masterminding the Demra massacre by the International Crimes Tribunal . Nizami was the Member of Parliament from Pabna-1 constituency from 1991 to 1996 and again from 2001 to 2006. He also served as the Bangladeshi Minister of Agric…
Related
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- The case file for this article, with every snapshot and every marked removal
- Who made the cuts: removals grouped by the account that made them
- The live article on Wikipedia
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