MNA National Desk: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday hoped that someone in the future will surely find out the real conspirators behind the killings of August 15 and November 3 in 1975. “We may not be able to try these conspirators… we’ll try to do that… history cannot be erased… in the future someone will surely catch these conspirators (of the killings of August 15 and November 3) that [day] will come…this must be done,” she said. The Prime Minister said this while addressing a discussion organised by Awami League at the city’s Krishibid Institution marking the Jail Killing ...
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Nation paying homage to four national leaders
MNA Feature Desk: The nation is observing the Jail Killing Day today (Sunday) with due solemnity, marking the brutal killing of four national leaders inside the jail. On November 3, 1975, four national leaders and heroes of the country’s Liberation War — Syed Nazrul Islam, Tajuddin Ahmad, Captain Mansur Ali and AHM Quamruzzaman — were assassinated inside the Dhaka Central Jail. The four leaders played a key role in forming the Mujibnagar government in exile that led the Liberation War in 1971 with Syed Nazrul Islam as the acting president, Tajuddin Ahmad as the prime minister, Mansur Ali as the ...
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MNA Fetaure Desk: The nation is observing the Jail Killing Day today (Saturday) with due solemnity. On November 3, 1975, four national leaders and heroes of the country’s Liberation War — Syed Nazrul Islam, Tajuddin Ahmad, Captain Mansur Ali and AHM Quamruzzaman — were assassinated inside the Dhaka Central Jail. The four leaders played a key role in forming the Mujibnagar government in exile that led the Liberation War of 1971 with Syed Nazrul Islam as the acting president, Tajuddin Ahmad as the prime minister, Mansur Ali as the finance minister and AHM Qamruzzaman as the home, relief and rehabilitation ...
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MNA Feature Desk: Remarking the Jail Killing Day nation has paid homage to its four national leaders brutally killed 42 years ago in a high-security prison – a tragedy unheard of anywhere in the world. On 3 November 1975, four leaders of the wartime national government—acting president Syed Nazrul Islam, prime minister Tajuddin Ahmad and Cabinet ministers M Mansur Ali and AHM Qamruzzaman—were killed inside Dhaka Central Jail. Ruling party Awami League leaders laid wreaths at Bangabadhu’s portrait on Dhanmondi and at the graves of three national leaders— Tajuddin Ahmed, Syed Nazrul Islam, Capt Monsur Ali—at Banani graveyard in the city ...
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MNA Editorial Desk: The Jail Killing Day, considered as a chapter of brutality of the nation’s history, commemorating the assassinations of four national leaders is being observed mournfully across the country today. On this day the four Liberation War heroes of Bangladesh – Syed Nazrul Islam, Tajuddin Ahmed, M Mansur Ali and AHM Qamaruzzaman were killed in captivity by some Army officers. They were assassinated inside the Dhaka Central Jail on November 3, 1975 — 79 days after Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most of his family members were killed on August 15, 1975. In separate messages, President Abdul Hamid ...
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