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Thanks, Nazir Bhai. Below is an old piece from Obaid Chowdhury on August 15. Author will gladly welcome any challenge to the facts mentioned. 


August 15: Know the Facts, Not Fiction
    
 
After 21 years in the political wilderness, the Bangladesh Awami League returned to power in 1996, thanks to the conniving hand of former dictator General H M Ershad. The first thing Sheikh Hasina Wazed, the new Prime Minister, did was to arrest the coup leaders of August 15, 1975, and put them on trial.
     Interestingly, the trial issue was never an AL election manifesto--- not even in 1996. The party knew well that the trial of the August 15 coup leaders was neither a public demand nor in national interest.
     Nonetheless, the trial turned out to be Sheikh Hasina’s top priority. According to at least two prominent personalities, Serajur Rahman of BBC, and a Colonel of the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence, Sheikh Hasina had no interest in politics. But she wanted to be in the seat of power at least for a day to fulfill her two agendas: 1) To try the ‘killers’ of her father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and, 2) to rehabilitate his image. She did exactly those two things in her first term as Prime Minister.  
     To justify the so-called Mujib Murder Trial, all kinds of falsehood and misinformation were fed to the public, to the media and to the foreigners about the August 15, 1975 coup. According to most independent observers, the drama orchestrated in the name of the trial was a sham. The Awami-inspired judges dished out the death penalty to a few army officers picked up as scapegoats. Within minutes of the final okay by the Supreme Court and the president's seal of approval, the national heroes had to walk to the gallows in unprecedented haste on the fateful night of January 27/28, 2010.   
     During the trial, few people looked to the circumstances that led to the pre-dawn military action against the repressive and dictatorial regime of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
 
     Bangabandhu turns Banga-Shatru?
            On January 10, 1972, the people of newly liberated Bangladesh showered all their love and affection on Sheikh Mujibur Rahman upon his arrival in Dhaka from Pakistani custody. Few leaders in history enjoyed such adulation, such popularity. Regrettably, things changed in just three and a half years.
     Well-known Indian journalist and writer Kuswant Singh wrote in the Illustrated Weekly of India about Sheikh Mujib, "Within a couple of years, he had lost much of his charisma and lived in a cocoon of self-spun esteem. He came to regard honest critics as traitors and sycophants as loyal friends. It was a classic case of folio de grandeur. He was blissfully unaware that the very people who called him Bangabandhu to his face behind his back called him Banga-Shatru."
     On January 2, 1973, Mujahidul Islam Selim, Vice President of Dhaka University Central Students Union (DUCSU), at a Paltan rally in Dhaka, withdrew the “Bangabandhu” title given to Sheikh Mujibur Rahmna and cancelled his life-long membership in the DUCSU, tearing off the page from the register in public. It was the same student leader-who had granted him the DUCSU membership a year ago. Selim had further asked all offices to remove the pictures of Mujib. Among other slogans at the rally, “Sheikh Mujib, Traitor of Bangladesh (Banglar Mir Jaffor Sheikh Mujib) was the loudest. Motia Chowdhury, a fiery Chatra Union leader, desired to make a dug-dugi, hand-held drum, with the skin of Mujib. Around that time, AL’s Chatra League activists stripped the sari off Motia Chowdhury in public. The incidents were in the wake of the killing of some activists of the Student Union at Mujib’s order while they were demonstrating anti-American slogans for the Vietnam War.
     On August 29, 1975, the Workers Party of Rashed Khan Menon  stated, “For the past three and a half years, the people suffered under the detested and anti-people regime of Sheikh Mujib and prayed every moment for its fall. August 15 had accomplished it.”
     Ironically, all these leaders are happily doing Awami politics today, or sympathetic to it.
 
     A Reflection on August 15
     At the dawn of August 15, 1975, the people of Dhaka woke up to the blasts of a few artillery shots, followed by small arms fire coming from the posh Dhanmondi area where Sheikh Mujib lived.  By intuition, they immediately switched their radios on. Rumors of a possible coup were in the air for some time. Suddently, they heard an announcement that the government of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had been overthrown in a military coup.
     The first announcement came from one Major Rashed. It was followed by an agitated speech by Captain Mustafa, condemning the fallen regime. It was before 6 AM and the main transmitter had not been activated yet. So, most people missed parts of those announcements.
     After half an hour, another person, identifying himself as Major Dalim, made the detailed announcement, including the news of the unfortunate death of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in the short military action, and that his close associate Khandakar Mushtaque Ahmed had taken over as the new president. His recorded announcement continued for some time.
            It was Friday, and the curfew was relaxed for two hours at noontime to facilitate the Jummah prayer. Wow! The Dhaka city turned to another Victory Day celebration. People paraded in the streets singing slogans, expressing their happiness and solidarity with the political change. Veteran politician and former East Pakistan Chief Minister Ataur Rahman Khan termed August 15 as “The Day of Deliverance.”  
            Under the Awami administration, the day is observed as a Mourning Day for the loss of its leader. In the month of August, the party and its supporting agencies kept showering praise on Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. To them, he was Bangabandhu, he was Jatir Pita and he was Shorbokaler Sorbosreshto Bangali. Outside their circle, not many people agree with those titles. 
            The younger generations may go through the media reports and pages of newspapers of the time--it is not difficult in today's technology-- and find the facts for themselves to learn the truth. One should not be swayed by myths, and untrue and unsubstantiated information.
            I once came across an article by M M Azizul Haq published in the Daily Inqilab on November 1, 1991. It was titled "Indemnity Rohit: Kar Sarthey? (Repeal of Indemnity: In Whose  Interest?). It was written in the backdrop of then opposition party Awami League's pressure for the repeal of the Indemnity Act. There could be more such write-ups elsewhere.
            The new president (Khandakar Mushtaque Ahmed) promulgated an indemnity ordinance to immunize those who were involved in the military action on August 15, 1975. The ordinance became part of the constitution as the Indemnity Act in 1979 under the Fifth Amendment. 
     Mr. Azizul Haq detailed the reasons why August 15 took place, and what might have been the scenario in Bangladesh had there not been this coup. The picture he painted was scary. According to most analysts, August 15 was inevitable. It was the call of the time, the call of the majority of Bangladeshis who were groaning under the dark and heavy hands of Mujb's autocratic and repressive machinery. They thought the military alone could salvage the nation.
            While observing the Mourning Day, the AL and its supporters start and end with the AL leader’s heavily edited version of the March 7, 1971 speech. They rarely talk about the achievements of his administration. Younger generations--those in their forties and below--need to visualize the Bangladesh of 1972-1975, the supposed “Golden Period” of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Those who lived in the period need to walk back in time for reorientation. Few may disagree that whatever little benefit of independence, freedom, democracy and development people of Bangladesh enjoy today is largely attributed to the August 15 political change.
            The New York Times, the Washington Post, the Guardian of London, the Far Eastern Economic Review and many other international media houses highlighted Mujib's corruptible administration, under which a few hundred thousand people perished in the man-made famine of 1974-75. Men and animals struggling for eatables in the city wastes were common sights. Poor women could not come out of their houses, as they did not have clothes. Dead bodies had to be buried with banana leaves.
     But there was no dearth of relief goods that remained hoarded in the warehouses of the ruling coterie, to be dispensed for political expediency or sold in the black market. The corruption was so extensive that former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger termed Bangladesh a “Bottomless Basket.”
            While people were dying in the streets and in the countryside, the marriages of Sheikh Kamal and Sheikh Jamal, sons of Sheikh Mujib, were celebrated in royal style at the Gonobhaban, Mujib's official residence. So was Mujib's birthday in 1975.  
            Mujib's personal force of Rakkhi Bahini, created at the instance of India ostensibly to counter the army, killed over 30,000 political opponents. The late Enayetullah Khan of the Holiday put the figure to 38,000. A S M Abdur Rob of Jatiyo Samajtantrik Dal once claimed that over 40,000 of his cadre were killed/disappeared during that period. Mujib himself admitted in the Parliament killing of Siraj Sikder, a top leftist leader. Can one imagine how many additional lives would have lost had there not been August 15?
 At the end of 1974, Emergency was clamped in the country. All but four government-controlled newspapers were cancelled publication. Political activities were banned. Anyone not toeing the official line was either in jail or not seen again. The political openness and the media freedom we see in Bangladesh today are a gift of August 15.
            In January 1975, Sheikh Mujib took over the presidency, showing the exit door to poor Muhammad Ullah, the former president. Reportedly, there was a plan, through the Chatra League route, to make Mujib the lifelong president. August 15 stopped that dream of a lifelong repressive autocracy in Bangladesh.
            The last nail in the coffin of an ailing nation came in the form of Mujib's supposed “greatest achievement,” the formation of the Bangladesh Krishak Sramik Awami League (BAKSAL), the Soviet-style one-party government. All other political parties were banned. The military and the bureaucracy were politicized by forcing them to join the BAKSAL. The country was divided into 61 political districts, each to be administered jointly by a BAKSAL governor and a BAKSAL Secretary, chosen personally by the leader. The system was to take effect on September 1, 1975. 
Noted historian and author K Ali said  regarding Sheikh Mujib, “He was out and out a despotic ruler and snatched away fundamental rights of the people by introducing absolute dictatorship under a one-party system----there was hardly any doubt that the measure (one-party rule) was taken only to establish his permanent rule in the country without any opposition.” August 15 stopped that dangerous path. 
            According to the politico-partisan trial, August 15 was said to be an isolated act committed by a “handful of disgruntled army officers.” Far from the truth. Available information suggested that the coup was executed by two units--2 Field Artillery and 1 Lancer--and led mostly by their officers. One infantry unit (16 Bengal) from Joydevpur failed to join the group at the last moment. How wide-ranging was the support for the coup might be verified from the following examples:

           
Military Support
     When under attack, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman called then Army Chief General Safiullah for help. The General could not help him. Safiullah later acknowledged to the Daily Star that he was helpless, as he found that the whole army was supportive of the coup.
     The moment Brigadier Khaled Mosharraf, then Army Chief of the General Staff, learnt that the main guns of the tanks that were out for the coup had no ammunition; he immediately ordered shells for the guns.
     Immediately after the coup, the chiefs of Army, Navy, Air Force, Bangladesh Rifles, Police, Rakkhi Bahini and Ansar rushed to the Dhaka Radio Station to announce their complete support for the coup and loyalty to the new president. It would be ludicrous to think that “a handful of officers” forced them to do it.  
     If the whole military did not support the coup, what prevented it from immediately crushing those handful of men?  
 
     Public support  
     Hardly any Innalillah….was heard upon the news of Sheikh Mujib’s death. In fact, people said to have heaved a sigh of relief with an Alhamdulillah. They thanked Allah, they had been saved! It was declared a Day of Deliverance by Ataur Rahman Khan, a latter-day Prime Minister. Abdul Malik Ukil said in London immediately after the coup that the country was saved from a Zalim Feraun (Mujib). Malik Ukil was the Awami League Speaker of the Parliament and later became the president of Awami League. Another former Awami League Speaker, Humayun Rasheed Choudhury, said in the mid 1980s that Mujib’s sins could not be cleansed even if he was hanged a hundred times.
     There was not an iota of resistance or protest from any quarter following the coup or “killing” of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. One may check the newspapers in the archives for facts. Again, the 100 million people of Bangladesh were not at gunpoint from the “handful of officers.”
     People swarmed the Dhaka streets in the thousands, in jubilation and celebration of the success of the coup. Similar celebrations were reported from the rest of the country. The scenario may be compared to the victory day celebrations of December 16, 1971.  
     People offered special prayers and distributed sweets on the day. Such celebrations were also reported form Bangladeshi communities abroad.
 
     Political Support  
     The post-coup administration was formed entirely by (Mujib’s) Awami League members of the parliament. The only exception was former president Justice Abu Sayeed Chowdhury, who became the foreign minister. No coup leader was seen within miles of the new administration, an unprecedented example in the history of successful coups/revolutions. To those patriots and dedicated souls, termed as “Surja Santans” (Divine children), August 15 was to save the nation, not to run it. 
     Veteran Awami Leaguer Abdul Malek Ukil termed Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as Zalim Feroun and hailed his fall.  
      Following the August 15 coup, newspapers and TV channels were filled with greetings from various political, educational and cultural groups from all over the country. Again, one may visit the media archives--national and international--to find the facts.
 
     Diplomatic Acknowledgment  
     The new government formed after the August 15 coup was immediately welcomed and recognized by the international community, including India, the US, the USSR and the UK. China and Saudi Arabia accorded recognition to Bangladesh for the first time.
     It is, however, regrettable that Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and some of his close relatives died during the coup. I am not aware if his death was intended or if it could have been averted. I may quote a top bureaucrat of that time, "Under the circumstances, one could not think of a change of government keeping Mujib alive." Colonel Abdur Rashid, one of the coup leaders, said more or less the same think to Anthony Mascarenhas in London in 1976.
     My intention is not to glorify a death event. But August 15 cannot be called a mere death event. It was a successful military coup for the greater national interest. The event should be seen from a larger perspective. It reintroduced multiparty democracy, it brought political freedom, it relieved the gagged press, and it opened public accountability, among others.  
     To understand August 15, one needs to walk back in time to the early period of Bangladesh and judge the day in that perspective. Sheikh Mujib is dead. So are hundreds of thousands of others who perished under his heavy hands. The greatest achievement of August 15, I think, was that it succeeded in stopping those unaccountable killings.
  
Obaid Chowdhury
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December 24, 2012  


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Bangladesh was burning during the last few days. Shouldn't the people and parties of all shades and hues (except BAL) have gotten out to the streets in solidarity? If all the opposition leaders took a united stand on the streets, all together, demanding the resignation of the government, the situation would have been different. But, alas! they remained as isolated as "lone wolves" and were only confined to useless press conferences and private meetings in small circles--"a room of their own," after Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own or E M Forster's A Room with a View.

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There is a vicious Awami slandering against Shamsul Alam. They allege he told his Al Jazeera interviewer his support for  "Burning down everything in Bangladesh". Please watch and share the whole interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8E1C7H4EhE

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If you lived in Bangladesh on August 15, 1975 and the days after, I would like to hear your honest opinion how the general people took Mujib's fall. Let me give you a small personal experience. 


In March 1975, I was travelling in a rickshaw in Comilla town. From a loudspeaker attached to another rickshaw in front came laud announcements: "Agami chabbishe March Bangabondhur guruttopurno bhason. Apnara dole dole Dhakar Suhrawardi Uddane jog din....." Similar announcements were coming from all sides, from all media outlets, posters, festoons etc. (The guruttopurno bhason was for the creation Mujib's magnum opus, BAKSAL).


In jest, I asked the rickshaw driver if he would like to go to Dhaka. "Raikkha den sab," was his quick response. "Oi betar janaza hoile jaite pari." I was shocked! He was just a rickshaw puller in Mujib's Bangladesh.


Madam, be honest. Have a seen any tear on any eye, heard an Innalillha on any mouth, or a small protest by anybody on that day, or anytime in the next 5 years? I did not see any. Don't tell me 100 million Bangladeshis were at gunpoint by a "handful of majors" not to cry for Mujib. With great difficult only 18 persons could be gathered for Mujib's janaza at Tungipara.


On the other hand, around 10 AM on the day, I heard speeches from the chiefs of army, navy, air force, BDR, police, BDR, Ansar and even Rakkhi Bahini supporting the military coup and new president Mushtaque. By noontime, Awami leaders rushed to Bogabhabon either to take oath as ministers of Mushtaque, or to witness the ceremony. Check the archives. 





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Thanks, Razzak, for sharing your experience.  


To understand August 15, one needs to go back to August 15 and its preceding 3 and a half years of Mujib's (mis)rule. It is not to demean Mujib but to face facts and reality.



 

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Ranu Bhai,
       AWRB. We used to live in a rented house on road no.32, not far from Mujib’s house. Still I remember that night, we all waked up from the gunfire sound, initially thought robbery, because it was very common in Dhaka, two weeks of Mujib’s death, there was a robbery in road no.21 and 23. 

However, when Mujib’s chef’s crying sounds came from servants quarters, which cleared the scenarios. I still remember, Titas confectionery and Unique Mart was celebrating the whole by offering free food like Cakes, Patties, Cream Roles and drinks.

I didn’t see anyone was upset except by brother and bhabi, because they were being attached to him from their young age. However, that was a opportunity to learn about rise and fall of Mujib.

I was extremely happy because we could ride the bikes without blocked from Mujib’s family.

Wassaalam 


 Razzak A. Syed


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On 11 Aug 2018, at 15:19, RANU CHOWDHURY <ran...@hotmail.com> wrote:

If you lived in Bangladesh on August 15, 1975 and the days after, I would like to hear your honest opinion how the general people took Mujib's fall. Let me give you a small personal experience. 


In March 1975, I was travelling in a rickshaw in Comilla town. From a loudspeaker attached to another rickshaw in front came laud announcements: "Agami chabbishe March Bangabondhur guruttopurno bhason. Apnara dole dole Dhakar Suhrawardi Uddane jog din....." Similar announcements were coming from all sides, from all media outlets, posters, festoons etc. (The guruttopurno bhason was for the creation Mujib's magnum opus, BAKSAL).


In jest, I asked the rickshaw driver if he would like to go to Dhaka. "Raikkha den sab," was his quick response. "Oi betar janaza hoile jaite pari." I was shocked! He was just a rickshaw puller in Mujib's Bangladesh.


Madam, be honest. Have a seen any tear on any eye, heard an Innalillha on any mouth, or a small protest by anybody on that day, or anytime in the next 5 years? I did not see any. Don't tell me 100 million Bangladeshis were at gunpoint by a "handful of majors" not to cry for Mujib. With great difficult only 18 persons could be gathered for Mujib's janaza at Tungipara.


On the other hand, around 10 AM on the day, I heard speeches from the chiefs of army, navy, air force, BDR, police, BDR, Ansar and even Rakkhi Bahini supporting the military coup and new president Mushtaque. By noontime, Awami leaders rushed to Bogabhabon either to take oath as ministers of Mushtaque, or to witness the ceremony. Check the archives. 





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