Entries by RonZ

Images of the Father…

Sometime in the later part of the 1950s, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, then a young, rising politician, threw a question at a rather drowsy Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy. Was it not possible, he asked Pakistan’s prime minister, for East Pakistan to become independent someday? The question startled Suhrawardy wide awake. In a state of disbelief, the […]

National Mourning Day today

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina placed wreaths at the portrait of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at the Bangabandhu Memorial Museum at Dhanmondi in the city this (Wednesday) morning. The Armed Forces gave her a guard of honour on the occasion. Sheikh Hasina also offered prayer during her visit to the museum at about 6:15am. Chiefs of […]

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HISTORY’S MACABRE TRAGEDY

Allah-hu—Akbar Hya alal salah Hya alal falah Come for prayers’ Come for salvation  As the call of the muezzin to prayer floated across the city that pre-dawn fateful 15 August, a group of murderers, ignoring that call, were proceeding with their tanks and armory towards fulfilling their evil intent. With their murderous weapons they went […]

War tapes disappeared after killing of Bangabandhu

Officials of the state-run Bangladesh Betar have said that a number of politically crucial tapes, many containing evidence of crimes against humanity during the War of Liberation, were destroyed or disappeared after the August 15, 1975 carnage. “Many of the wartime documents containing the statements of top collaborators and leading perpetrators of crimes against humanity […]