How can a military dictator usurping power after a carnage involving the nation's first family be the beacon of freedom, liberty, good governance and freedom of the press? Researchers feel that the letter blacks out the circumstances of the BNP’s formation and how the founder, General Zia offered an olive branch to ardent fundamentalist forces, like Jamaat-e-Islami, and even helped …
On 15 August 1975, the country’s founding father Bangandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman along with most of his family members were assassinated and the Awami League government was ousted from power. From the brutal assassination of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1975 to the rise of the country’s first military dictator, Gen Zia, in 1977, the die was cast. On 9 …
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