March 25, 1971 - The darkest night in Bangladeshs History The (Pakistani) army moved to remove all foreign journalists from the Intercontinental (hotel) and put them on flights out of the province (the then East Pakistan). And then began the long night of killing -- of academics, students, Bangalee police personnel as well as members of the East Pakistan Rifles, rickshaw pullers and citizens in general.The Shaheed Minar, long the symbol of Bangalee nationalism, was reduced to rubble. The Kali Mandir suffered a similar fate. At Jagannath Hall and other halls of Dhaka University, soldiers stormed into the rooms and murdered hundreds of students. They killed Prof Gobinda Chandra Dev of the department of philosophy and Prof Rafiqul Islam of mathematics. They grievously wounded Prof Jyotirmoy Guhathakurta of the department of English. Guhathakurta was to die of his wounds a few days later. Hundreds of students were murdered and buried in mass graves on the Dhaka University campus. In the midst of Pakistani Army unleashing an absolute reign of terror on the unarmed civilians, Bangladesh declared its independence on the wee hours of March 26, 1971. A fierce guerrilla war fare ensued against the well equipped but morally bankrupt occupying army. With the sacrifice of some 3 million lives, Bangladesh earned its liberation on December 1971.
Posted on: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 05:33:36 +0000
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