Words on the remorseful day, THE INDEPENDENT

From: The Independent (Bangladesh) | Date: August 15, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

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One could not have escaped the name Dhanmondi even if one wanted to. From the sixties, it was everywhere. It was in books, in newspapers. Sometimes it seemed that everything that happened in Dhaka, happened in Dhanmondi. That was where ministers issued their statements, and unnamed but reliable diplomats confided in reporters. That was where Sheikh Mujibur Rahman lived and it was there that he died, one morning, when he stepped out to confront his assassins, unable to believe that they, clad in the uniforms he had given them, would turn their guns upon him, their Liberator. ...

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