DHAKA (BANGLADESH): On the eve of her four-day consult with to India, Bangladesh top minister Sheikh Hasina published that she was once as soon as a secret resident of Delhi’s posh Pandara Roadthe place she lived along with her kids underneath an assumed identification seeking to break out consideration of those that assassinated her father Sheikh Mujibur Rehman.
Nearly 5 many years later, Hasina, in an emotional tv interview with ANI, unfolded in regards to the piercing traumas that haunted her for many years.
Eyes wet, Hasina vividly recounted the fast moving occasions of 1975 when she left Bangladesh to sign up for her nuclear scientist husband in Germany. It was once July 30, 1975 and members of the family had come to the airport to peer Hasina and her sister off. It was once a cheerful farewell and Hasina had no inkling that it might become her ultimate assembly along with her folks.
“Because my husband was abroad, so I used to live in the same house (with parents). So that day everybody was there: my father, mother, my three brothers, two newly-wedded sisters-in-law, everybody was there . So all the siblings and their spouses. They came to the airport to see us off. And we met father, mother. That was the last day, you know,” recounted Hasina on one of the crucial darkest chapters in Bangladesh’s historical past.
A fortnight later, at the morning of August 15, Hasina won information that she discovered exhausting to consider. Her father, the mythical statesman Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rehman, were killed. The horrors did not forestall at studying about her father’s dying, however were given additional compounded when she won information of the abstract execution of extra contributors of her circle of relatives.
“It was really unbelievable. Unbelievable, that any Bengali could do it. And still we didn’t know how, what really happened. Only there was a coup, and then we heard that my father was assassinated. But we didn’t know that all the family members were, you know, they were assassinated,” Hasina mentioned, preventing again tears.
India was once one of the crucial first nations to increase assist, Hasina recalled.
“Mrs Indira Gandhi immediately sent information that she wanted to give us, I mean, security and shelter. So we received, especially from Marshal Tito from Yugoslavia, and Mrs Gandhi. We decided to come back here (Delhi) because we had in our mind that if we go to Delhi, from Delhi we’ll be able to go back to our country. And then we’ll be able to know how many members of family are still alive,” the Bangladesh top minister mentioned.
Five many years have handed, however the ache nonetheless displays in Hasina’s voice. “It’s very difficult time,” she mentioned. The then Bangladesh ambassador to Germany Humayun Rashid Chaudhary was once the primary individual to offer an account of her circle of relatives’s bloodbath.
“For few moments I didn’t know where I was. But I thought about my sister, she is, actually she’s 10 years younger than me. So, I thought how she will take it. It is so difficult for her. Then when we returned to Delhi, at first they put us in a house with all security, because they were also worried about us,” recounted Hasina.
Asked if she felt that she too was once a conceivable goal, Hasina mentioned the miscreants who had attacked her father had additionally performed assaults on the properties of different family and killed a few of her kinfolk. “Almost 18 members and some, mostly my relatives and then some maid servants and their children and then some guests, my uncle,” had been amongst the ones killed, she mentioned.
The conspirators had a transparent intention that no person from Bangabandhu’s circle of relatives will have to ever come again to energy.
“My younger brother was only 10 years old, so they did not spare him too. So when we returned to Delhi, it was perhaps 24th August, then I met Prime Minister Mrs Gandhi. She called us and we… so there we came to know that nobody is alive. Then she made all the arrangements for us, a job for my husband and this Pandara Road house. We stayed there. So first 2-3 years actually it was so difficult to accept this, my children, my son was only 4-years-old. My daughter, she’s younger, both of them used to cry. Come (let’s) go to my mother, my father and they still remembered my younger brother mostly,” Hasina recounted.
So a lot were misplaced, but, Hasina additionally discovered someplace that she needed to suppose forward. “So… but then gradually, we have and well… as because I have children. My sister is there, so this sorrow, pain, just very difficult but still we have, well … We have to think what to do…We should do something…we should, we cannot live like this,” she mentioned.
The ache, then again, would now not cross away. “This crime, not only killed my father, also they changed the ideology of our liberation war. Everything just, just one night, everything just changed. And those killers…they were actually still haunting us. That they’re trying to find out where we are, so when we lived in Pandara road; even we did… we couldn’t, our name was changed,” mentioned the Awami League chief.
Having misplaced her folks, Hasina was once pressured to cover her identification. “Different name. And it is so painful that you cannot use your own name, own identity… Because of the security purpose they didn’t allow us,” mentioned Hasina as she attempted to muster the energy to recount the harrowing time.
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rehman and contributors of his circle of relatives had been killed in chilly blood on August fifteenth, 1975 through senior military officials, which plunged Bangladesh into political chaos and ended in an army regime operating the rustic for various years, thereby postponing the democratic procedure .
For the following six years, until 1981, Hasina lived in Delhi underneath a distinct title, underneath an assumed identification. However, many of us again in Bangladesh sought after her to steer the Awami League birthday party identical to her father did.
“Definitely I wanted to come back to my country. But taking responsibility of such a big party, I never thought about it,” she mentioned. However, Hasina traveled to other nations all the way through this time or even addressed a public assembly in London’s York Hall on sixteenth August 1980 challenging punishment for her father’s killers.
“To bring them to justice or bring them to book, so that the trial should take place, because there was immunity granted to them. There was an ordinance, they shoot, so you cannot demand or file any case against the killers. Killers got The killer… and they killed… and it is in open and they claimed that yes, they committed this crime and they were very vocal. powerful,” mentioned Hasina.
She persevered with the marketing campaign roping in lots of eminent other folks. “On one hand we lost everybody, and the other hand I cannot ask for justice. Justice was denied. So that was the situation that time. Then again I returned to Delhi, end of 80 or 81,” she mentioned.
However, through this time there was once some other necessary building in Bangladesh. “Awami League had a conference, at that time they, in my absence, they declared me as the president of the party,” mentioned Hasina, who sooner or later moved to Bangladesh and once more reached the highest place within the nation’s political enviornment.
“They tried to kill me, several times, yeah, but I survived. Even though in the broad daylight there was a grenade attack. I don’t know how I survived. Our party leaders, workers they just covered me, made human shields so they received all the splinters but I… I was totally safe. Then there was open fire in my meeting, I survived. They placed a huge bomb in my meeting place. Somehow it was discovered by just a simple man. So I survived. I don’t know its… you can ask God, Allah. Allah is helping me perhaps, maybe Allah has given me some job to do,” she mentioned.
Nearly 5 many years later, Hasina, in an emotional tv interview with ANI, unfolded in regards to the piercing traumas that haunted her for many years.
Eyes wet, Hasina vividly recounted the fast moving occasions of 1975 when she left Bangladesh to sign up for her nuclear scientist husband in Germany. It was once July 30, 1975 and members of the family had come to the airport to peer Hasina and her sister off. It was once a cheerful farewell and Hasina had no inkling that it might become her ultimate assembly along with her folks.
“Because my husband was abroad, so I used to live in the same house (with parents). So that day everybody was there: my father, mother, my three brothers, two newly-wedded sisters-in-law, everybody was there . So all the siblings and their spouses. They came to the airport to see us off. And we met father, mother. That was the last day, you know,” recounted Hasina on one of the crucial darkest chapters in Bangladesh’s historical past.
A fortnight later, at the morning of August 15, Hasina won information that she discovered exhausting to consider. Her father, the mythical statesman Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rehman, were killed. The horrors did not forestall at studying about her father’s dying, however were given additional compounded when she won information of the abstract execution of extra contributors of her circle of relatives.
“It was really unbelievable. Unbelievable, that any Bengali could do it. And still we didn’t know how, what really happened. Only there was a coup, and then we heard that my father was assassinated. But we didn’t know that all the family members were, you know, they were assassinated,” Hasina mentioned, preventing again tears.
India was once one of the crucial first nations to increase assist, Hasina recalled.
“Mrs Indira Gandhi immediately sent information that she wanted to give us, I mean, security and shelter. So we received, especially from Marshal Tito from Yugoslavia, and Mrs Gandhi. We decided to come back here (Delhi) because we had in our mind that if we go to Delhi, from Delhi we’ll be able to go back to our country. And then we’ll be able to know how many members of family are still alive,” the Bangladesh top minister mentioned.
Five many years have handed, however the ache nonetheless displays in Hasina’s voice. “It’s very difficult time,” she mentioned. The then Bangladesh ambassador to Germany Humayun Rashid Chaudhary was once the primary individual to offer an account of her circle of relatives’s bloodbath.
“For few moments I didn’t know where I was. But I thought about my sister, she is, actually she’s 10 years younger than me. So, I thought how she will take it. It is so difficult for her. Then when we returned to Delhi, at first they put us in a house with all security, because they were also worried about us,” recounted Hasina.
Asked if she felt that she too was once a conceivable goal, Hasina mentioned the miscreants who had attacked her father had additionally performed assaults on the properties of different family and killed a few of her kinfolk. “Almost 18 members and some, mostly my relatives and then some maid servants and their children and then some guests, my uncle,” had been amongst the ones killed, she mentioned.
The conspirators had a transparent intention that no person from Bangabandhu’s circle of relatives will have to ever come again to energy.
“My younger brother was only 10 years old, so they did not spare him too. So when we returned to Delhi, it was perhaps 24th August, then I met Prime Minister Mrs Gandhi. She called us and we… so there we came to know that nobody is alive. Then she made all the arrangements for us, a job for my husband and this Pandara Road house. We stayed there. So first 2-3 years actually it was so difficult to accept this, my children, my son was only 4-years-old. My daughter, she’s younger, both of them used to cry. Come (let’s) go to my mother, my father and they still remembered my younger brother mostly,” Hasina recounted.
So a lot were misplaced, but, Hasina additionally discovered someplace that she needed to suppose forward. “So… but then gradually, we have and well… as because I have children. My sister is there, so this sorrow, pain, just very difficult but still we have, well … We have to think what to do…We should do something…we should, we cannot live like this,” she mentioned.
The ache, then again, would now not cross away. “This crime, not only killed my father, also they changed the ideology of our liberation war. Everything just, just one night, everything just changed. And those killers…they were actually still haunting us. That they’re trying to find out where we are, so when we lived in Pandara road; even we did… we couldn’t, our name was changed,” mentioned the Awami League chief.
Having misplaced her folks, Hasina was once pressured to cover her identification. “Different name. And it is so painful that you cannot use your own name, own identity… Because of the security purpose they didn’t allow us,” mentioned Hasina as she attempted to muster the energy to recount the harrowing time.
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rehman and contributors of his circle of relatives had been killed in chilly blood on August fifteenth, 1975 through senior military officials, which plunged Bangladesh into political chaos and ended in an army regime operating the rustic for various years, thereby postponing the democratic procedure .
For the following six years, until 1981, Hasina lived in Delhi underneath a distinct title, underneath an assumed identification. However, many of us again in Bangladesh sought after her to steer the Awami League birthday party identical to her father did.
“Definitely I wanted to come back to my country. But taking responsibility of such a big party, I never thought about it,” she mentioned. However, Hasina traveled to other nations all the way through this time or even addressed a public assembly in London’s York Hall on sixteenth August 1980 challenging punishment for her father’s killers.
“To bring them to justice or bring them to book, so that the trial should take place, because there was immunity granted to them. There was an ordinance, they shoot, so you cannot demand or file any case against the killers. Killers got The killer… and they killed… and it is in open and they claimed that yes, they committed this crime and they were very vocal. powerful,” mentioned Hasina.
She persevered with the marketing campaign roping in lots of eminent other folks. “On one hand we lost everybody, and the other hand I cannot ask for justice. Justice was denied. So that was the situation that time. Then again I returned to Delhi, end of 80 or 81,” she mentioned.
However, through this time there was once some other necessary building in Bangladesh. “Awami League had a conference, at that time they, in my absence, they declared me as the president of the party,” mentioned Hasina, who sooner or later moved to Bangladesh and once more reached the highest place within the nation’s political enviornment.
“They tried to kill me, several times, yeah, but I survived. Even though in the broad daylight there was a grenade attack. I don’t know how I survived. Our party leaders, workers they just covered me, made human shields so they received all the splinters but I… I was totally safe. Then there was open fire in my meeting, I survived. They placed a huge bomb in my meeting place. Somehow it was discovered by just a simple man. So I survived. I don’t know its… you can ask God, Allah. Allah is helping me perhaps, maybe Allah has given me some job to do,” she mentioned.
