Bangladesh
Sad August Today is the first day of sad August
Dhaka, August 1: Today is the first day of sad August. In this month of 1975, the nation lost Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the father of the nation, the best Bengali for a thousand years. In the same month, on August 21, 2004, an attempt was made to kill Sheikh Hasina, daughter of the Father of the Nation, current Prime Minister and Awami League President by throwing a grenade. Fortunately, she survived that day, but in this incident, 24 people, including Ivy Rahman, the wife of former president Md. Zillur Rahman, Awami League's women's affairs editor at that time, were killed and more than 500 leaders and workers were injured.
On the night of August 15, 1975, the assassins not only killed Bangabandhu, Bangabandhu's consort Bangmata Begum Fazilatunnesa Mujib, Bangabandhu's children Sheikh Kamal, Sheikh Jamal, Sheikh Russell and daughter-in-law Sultana Kamal and Rozi Jamal died one by one. Bangabandhu's brother Sheikh Nasser, sister-in-law Abdur Rob Serniabat, nephew Sheikh Fazlul Haque Moni, his wife Arju Moni and Colonel Jamil, including 16 family members and relatives could not escape from this most despicable murder in the world.
After a number of dangerous members of the army killed the father of the nation Bangabandhu and his family, the entire world fell into a shadow of intense grief and spread the venom of hatred.
West German leader Willy Branditt, who won the Nobel Prize after Bangabandhu's murder, said that Bengalis can no longer be trusted after Mujib's murder. A Bengali who can kill Sheikh Mujib can do any heinous act. Indian-born British citizen and prominent writer Nirad Shri Chowdhury described the Bengalis as 'traitors' and said that by killing the dreamer of the Bengali nation, Sheikh Mujib, they have shown their suicidal character to the people of the world.
The 16th August 1975 issue of The Times of London stated - 'Despite everything, Bangabandhu will always be remembered. Because, without him, there is no real existence of Bangladesh. The Daily Telegraph published from London on the same day said, "Millions of people in Bangladesh will consider Sheikh Mujib's heinous murder as an irreparable loss."
As every time, this time too, the month-long programme of Awami League and allied and fraternal organizations is starting from the first day of August. Various socio-political and cultural organizations have also initiated various programmes.
