Tag: Bangabandhu
A couple of months into the inception of his “second revolution,” prior to his assassination on August 15, 1975, President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was working tirelessly to implement his philosophy for combating corruption, bureaucratic ineptitude,…
In the first couple of years of a newly independent Bangladesh, the Father of the Nation was very optimistic about rebuilding the country with the help of the pro-independence people in his party and others,…
In her latest impassioned address from exile—delivered as Bangladesh grapples with the aftermath of the February 12 parliamentary elections—former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has unleashed a scathing indictment of the current political order. Speaking with…
Bangabandhu’s 7th March speech, considered to be his unofficial proclamation of independence, came as a response to President Yahya Khan’s announcement on March 6 of a new date of the national assembly. Awami League supremo…
Starting from mid-February till January 10, 1972, this brief timeline mentions every important event of the Bangalee’s struggle for independence and efforts to thwart it through genocide by Pakistan, its allies, and local collaborators, like…
After the assassination of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on August 15, 1975, then chief of army Ziaur Rahman sought military support from the US through its embassy in Dhaka to what he said thwart India-backed…
The nation will recall the “Black Night of March 25” today in commemoration of the cowardly attack on the unarmed Bangalees by the barbarous Pakistani occupation forces in 1971. In the dreadful operation dubbed as…
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