BANGLADESH

Month of mourning begins today

The month of mourning began today for the nation to recall once again the most brutal assassination in its history and renew the pledge to safeguard perpetually the country’s independence and sovereignty.

The self-confessed killers of August 15 did not assassinate Bangabandhu alone, but also killed 16 other members of his family, friends and relatives.

They included Bangamata Begum Fazilatunnesa Mujib, sons Sheikh Kamal, Sheikh Jamal and Sheikh Russell, daughters-in-law Sultana Kamal and Rosy Jamal, Bangabandhu’s brother Sheikh Naser, brother-in-law Abdur Rab Serniabat, nephew and eminent journalist Sheikh Fazlul Huq Moni, his pregnant wife Arzoo Moni and military secretary Colonel Jamil.

Bangabandhu’s two daughters — Sheikh Hasina and Sheikh Rehana — were visiting Germany at the time.

The killing of Bangabandhu led to a pall of gloom and spread a sense of deep sadness among the people in the country and across the globe. The world protested and condemned the killing, terming it an irreparable loss to millions of people of Bangladesh.

The month of August is also black marked with another conspiracy of assassination. The nation cannot ever forget the heinous attempt to kill Hasina through grenade attacks.

A vested quarter tried to destroy Awami League (AL) by killing its president Hasina with grenades during an anti-terrorism rally at Bangabandhu Avenue in Dhaka on August 21, 2004.

Hasina narrowly escaped the attack suffering splinter injuries when 24 of her party men, including Awami League’s women’s affairs secretary Ivy Rahman, were killed and 500 others injured.

Like in the previous years, different political and socio-cultural organisations, including ruling Awami League and its associate bodies, have chalked out month-long programmes to observe the month of mourning that will begin from today.

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