Entries by RonZ

It’s Bangabandhu, not Zia HC rules Sheikh Mujib declared independence

In a watershed judgment, the High Court yesterday ruled that Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, not Ziaur Rahman, proclaimed the republic’s independence on March 26, 1971. The proclamation was relayed by Kalurghat Betar Kendra (radio centre) in Chittagong the following day, it added. Observers say the judgment will help end the long, bitter wrangle over a […]

Bangabandhu The generator of Bangalee nationalism

BANGABANDHU SHEIKH MUJIBUR RAHMAN DEDICATED his life to establishing a democratic, peaceful and exploitation-free society called “Sonar Bangla” – Golden Bengal. He sacrificed his life to liberate the Bangalee nation, which had been groaning under the colonial and imperialist yoke for nearly 1,000 years. He is the founding father of the Bangalee nation, generator of […]

A Brief

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib was born on March 17, 1920 and was assassinated by a group of junior army officers on August 15, 1975 – coincidentally on India’s Independence Day. Sheikh Mujib headed the Awami League, served as the first President of Bangladesh and later became its Prime Minister. His eldest daughter Sheikh Hasina Wajed is […]

Bangabandhu an architect of the nation

He  is  not  a  mere  individual. He in an institution. A movement. A revolution.  An  upsurge. He  is the architect of the nation. He is the essence of epic poetry and he is history. This   history   goes   back   a   thousand  years. Which  is  why contemporary  history  has  recognized him as the greatest Bengali of the past thousand […]

Quotes from Bangabandhu

DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE “This may be my last message, from today Bangladesh is independent. I call upon the people of Bangladesh, wherever you might be and whatever you have, to resist the army of occupation to the last. Your fight must go on until the last soldier of the Pakistan occupation army is expelled from […]