What BNP ardently seeks to hide about the murderous legacy set by party founder General ZiaurRahman ? — General Ziaur I’d the first military dictator in Bangladesh — BNP founder General Zia was a psychopath in his capability to use violence, betray others: famous American journalist Lawrence Lifschultz — First army offic...
From staging election fraud to killing Sheikh Mujib and his family to holding the most glaring referendum and killing of over 1000 war heroes turned freedom frights General Zia went all out to reign in power but the U.S. will fully ignored all such abuses and stood by Zia.
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...
Prime Minister’s ICT Affairs Adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy has said General Ziaur Rahman's yes/no referendum is the shameful chapter of killing democracy in Bangladesh. "General Zia, after the tragic murder of Bangabandhu's family, illegally seized state power through a ‘yes or no’ vote without any prior meetings, processions, or...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said that democracy in Bangladesh is practised only by her party, the Awami League, which has a history of holding free elections. “The Awami League practises a democratic system, and fair democratic practices prevail during the Awami League's rule,” she said. The prime minister, now on a fo...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said her government must hold the trials of the mass killings of military officials during the regime of military dictator Ziaur Rahman and the arson terrorism sponsored by the BNP-Jamaat clique from 2013 to 2015. "I have no word to console you. I am one of you as I heard one day that I have nothing (after ass...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's ICT Advisor Sajeeb Wazed Joy has said Bangladesh's first military ruler Gen Ziaur Rahman had executed thousands of members of Bangladesh's armed forces through so-called "military tribunals". In a Facebook post shared from his verified account, Joy said Zia had done this in order to prolong his unconstitutional an...
At the heart of Bangladesh's long culture of impunity lies an infamous decree, introduced by turncoat Khondaker Mostaque Ahmed and later institutionalised by successive military governments which helped safeguard the killers of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most of his family members, researchers say. Within a span of forty days into that gru...
The facts Zayadul Ahsan presents are set off in an eerie pattern from the moment Zia loyalists, Mir Shawkat Ali for instance, move resolutely against the mutineers. Over the next twenty days or so, it would be an operation of relentless cruelty as the Zia regime, guided by vindictiveness and palpably oblivious to all norms of civilized behavior,...
Syed Badrul Ahsan: In a season of murder and mayhem, it was one more day for the country to go through infamy. On 7 November 1975 it was an ugly continuation of the cycle of assassinations, of the breakdown of rule of law Bangladesh was compelled to suffer through. Bangabandhu and his family had been silenced in August. In early November, his c...
A chaotic situation erupted in the Dhaka cantonment on November 7, 1975, just after midnight. The members of Colonel Taher's revolutionary military men became active in response to the call of the then army chief Ziaur Rahman, also a patron behind Bangabandhu’s assassination. The soldiers, who returned from Pakistan, started killing and ca...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today urged lawmakers to find out how many people were killed in each jail across the country during Ziaur Rahman's regime. “You (MPs) should move forward to find out how many people were killed in jails, especially in Dhaka, Bogura, Rajshahi, Khulna, and Cumilla. Hundreds of people were hanged to death in eac...
Shakhawat Liton: After three and a half years of the brutal assassination of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most of his family members, the second parliament dominated by BNP--a newly formed political party led by then military ruler General Ziaur Rahman, who was the biggest beneficiary of the heinous crime, passed a strange condolence m...
Bangladesh has executed six murderers for killing the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his family on August 15, 1975. Some are also on run. But those who were behind the barbaric massacre have misled the ordinary people by claiming themselves as pro-liberation forces. However, their role has become clearer after diploma...
After the end of the War of Independence, the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman started introducing democracy for the exploited people aiming to improve the destiny of 80 per cent of poor people of the country. He was also able to send the Indian troops back to their country within just three months, On March 26, 1972, he ...
Bangladesh is celebrating its Golden Jubilee of Independence in 2021. The government and non-government organizations, institutions and political parties have chalked out different programmes over the year. But why has BNP been the talking point by observing the 50 years of historic 7th March speech? BNP drew appreciation from people when it an...
Sharif Shahab Uddin: A tree is known by its fruit, and a man by his acts and deeds. And General Zia is no exception. He is also known for his acts and deeds. It has been a fact that Major Zia, as a loyal officer of the Pakistan Army, was going to help unloading arms that had arrived at the Chittagong Port from West Pakistan just before the star...
Those who rose to power following the 1975 assassination of Bangabandhu and misguided the nation and prolonged their tenure by murdering freedom fighters and armed forces personnel must be unmasked, said speakers, demanding that a justice commission be formed in this regard. They also urged conducting research on the murder of four national lea...
Terming BNP as a “party of killers”, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said the party was born through murders and conspiracies. “The founder of BNP was a killer and he floated the party with those who were involved in murders … there is nothing to defend it,” she said. Sheikh Hasina, also the Awami League (AL) presid...
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