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Lies, damn lies, and Zia-bashing
Nineteenth century British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli is meant to have quipped ‘There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics’. It seems to me that in Bangladesh we have three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and Zia-bashing. Sometimes these lies about Ziaur Rahman get out of hand. For example, when Quamrul Islam, the…
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Ziaur Rahman and the ‘Force’
The force was never with late president Ziaur Rahman. DUCSU was then under BNP’s student wing Chhatra Dal (JCD) control, so was majority of the dorms of DU. JCD was overwhelmingly single largest students’ party at DU campus. At that time, when two new dorms were built at DU, they were named Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib…
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The Birth of Our Nation — Ziaur Rahman
Earlier we posted articles by Shafiullah and Khaled Mosharraf. Over the fold is the article by Ziaur Rahman. This first appeared on the Dainik Bangla 26 March 1972, and was reprinted in Bichitra on 26 March 1974. Regardless of their actions in 1975 and afterwards, and our political views based on today’s vantage points, Zia-Khaled-Shafiullah…
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Zia- the freedom fighter, visionary leader and a failed lagacy
In the pages of Bangladesh interest blogs, where you will be labeled BNP supporter if you dare disagree with even a single policy of Sheikh Hasina and where neutrality is a hated concept, one needs a lot of courage to write a tribute to Late President Ziaur Rahman. And I decide to take the unwise…
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Colonel Taher: A Hero or A Villain?
This was written for Uttorshuri in two installments on Taher Day during July 2006. I am re-posting this on the eve of November 7. This post is not intended to demonize veteran Freedom fighter and ambitious patriotic leader Colonel Abu Taher. No one argues that Col Taher was a patriot and he wanted to prosper…
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জিয়াউর রহমানকে মনে করা এবং ঐতিহ্য
আতাউস সামাদ আজ প্রেসিডেন্ট জিয়াউর রহমানের ত্রিশতম মৃত্যুবার্ষিকী। তিনি বীর মুক্তিযোদ্ধা, সেনাশাসক, হৃত গণতন্ত্র পুনঃপ্রতিষ্ঠাকারী, নির্বাচিত রাষ্ট্রপতি ও সরকারপ্রধান, সংস্কারক, উন্নয়নকর্মী ও কূটনীতিবিদ এসব পরিচয়ে বিভিন্ন সময়ে পরিচিত হয়েছেন এবং প্রতিটি চরিত্রেই তাঁর পক্ষে ও বিপক্ষে আজও প্রায়ই তর্কের ঝড় ওঠে। ২০০৮ সালের ডিসেম্বরে দুই বছর অযাচিত বিরতি দিয়ে অনুষ্ঠিত জাতীয় সংসদ নির্বাচনের মাধ্যমে ক্ষমতায়…
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