Geetali Chakrabarty, house tutor of Sheikh Russell, the youngest son of Bangabandhu, could not even imagine that August 14 night would be the last one to teach her loving 'Buchu', a nickname she gave to the little boy who was killed brutally along with most of his family members on the fateful night of August 15, 1975. "Before leaving the Dhanm...
Prime Minister’s ICT Affairs Advisor Sajeeb Wazed has said that by enacting the infamous Indemnity Act, BNP founder Ziaur Rahman introduced “a culture of impunity” that ensured no one could seek justice for Bangabandhu’s murder. “After Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's assassination, BNP founder and country&rsquo...
Sufi Faruq Ibne Abubakar: Named after one of the greatest thinkers of all time (Bertrand Russell), young Russel had an endearing personality that still inspires awe in his sisters, even after around five decades. Accompanying his father – Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman – at global events, Russel is seen, in archived videos, shaki...
Tonmoy Ahmed: “Those assassins did not even spare my ten-year-old brother Sheikh Russel” is how Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina recalls the brutal massacre of nearly her entire family – father, mother, brothers, including Russel, and sisters-in-law. Quite obviously, the killers had been tasked to wipe out the ...
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's grandson Sajeeb Wazed Joy today (August 15, 2022) said, "Conspiracies of the evil forces defeated in the Liberation War did not stop. To avenge the defeat, they have hatched one plot after another." "On August 15, 1975, some misguided members of the army were used by the conspirators to make one of the most h...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today questioned how Tarique Rahman can lead BNP when "he can't dare to return home". Tarique went abroad during the caretaker government's tenure, giving a bond that he would "not do politics anymore", the prime minister said while addressing a discussion – marking the 73rd founding anniversary of Bangladesh ...
The assassination of Bangabandhu on August 15, 1975, was carried out in an attempt to foil the country’s independence. The conspirators drew a blueprint to make Bangladesh a failed state since the defeat of international and local collaborators in 1971. They operated the killing mission of the founder of Bangladesh and the liberator of the...
Sharif Shahab Uddin: Bangladesh has been fighting a grim battle for its survival since the history’s barbaric brutality that took place on the 15th of August, 1975 when Bangabandhu was assassinated along with most of the members of his family by the forces defeated in the War of Liberation. Once in a century a man is born with great hero...
Speakers at the Awami League’s webinar today said Ziaur Rahman wanted to take back independent Bangladesh to Pakistani era after the heinous killing of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Terming the assassination of Bangabandhu on August 15, 1975 as most dreadful one in the history of Bangladesh, the speakers said Ban...
Professor Dr. Mamun Al Mahtab (Shwapnil): On one of the rare instances as I was sitting in the office of the Secretary to the Hon’ble President at Bangabhaban sometime last year, my attention was drawn to the honour list proudly displaying the names of the Principal Secretaries and Secretaries to the Hon’ble President of the country...
Dr Munaz Ahmed Noor: 15th August, the saddest day in national history. The assassination of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, in which not only Bangabandhu but most members of his family and close relatives including women and children were killed, is a singularly dark episode, very distinct from the uprisings and kill...
Victims of 15th August 1975 massacre
Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman started rebuilding the war-ravaged Bangladesh immediately after his return home from the Pakistan’s jail and successfully overcame the challenges that were deep-rooted into both economic and non-economic sectors of the newly independent country. According to some major publications an...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Bangabandhu’s daughter who survived the massacre of Aug 15, 1975, believes Zia was made president later because of his ‘direct involvement’ in the assassination of the nation’s founding father. “I don’t remember any month when Major Zia and his wife did not come to our house. Was...
Bangladesh is observing National Mourning Day commemorating the assassination of its independence architect Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on Wednesday. The Father of the Nation Sheikh Mujib, then President of the new republic, was killed along with most members of the family on Aug 15, 1975 by a group of disgruntled army officers at his Dha...
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