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Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was a Bangladeshi politician, revolutionary, statesman, activist, and diarist who was the founding president of Bangladesh. As the leader of Bangladesh, he led the country as its president and prime minister from 1972 until his assassination in a coup d'état in 1975.
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politics · Bangladeshi revolutionary and statesman (1920–1975) · politician · writer · also Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bangabandhu, Sheikh Mujib, Rahman
Born 17 March 1920 · Died 15 August 1975 · Q191375
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“the world powers arranged the Nuremberg trials against the war criminals of fascist Germany. I think they should come forward and there should be another trial or inquiry under the United Nations”
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“We have a large army but it is left to the British Marines to bury our dead”
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“East Pakistan must get full regional autonomy. It must be self-sufficient in all respects. It must get its due share and legitimate share in the central administration. The West Pakistani people support [East Pakistani demands]. Only the vested interests want to divide the people of East and West Pakistan”
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The Daily Star: Sheikh Mujib’s killing: What the newspapers told and what they omitted
Daily Observer: Lecturer suspended over facebook post about Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Social News XYZ: Bangladesh: Rights group decries ‘arbitrary’ arrest of 15 lawyers over Bangabandhu death anniversary gathering
daily-sun.com: Two women sent to jail for paying tribute to Sheikh Mujib at Dhanmondi 32 - daily-sun.com
New Age BD: Two JU JCD members removed over FB posts honouring Sheikh Mujib
Views Bangladesh: JU Chhatra Dal drops two members over posts honouring Sheikh Mujibur
The Daily Campus: Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s Assassination Marks 51 Years Today
The Business Standard: Man arrested, sent to jail for paying tribute to Sheikh Mujib at Dhanmondi 32
The Daily Star: Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Assassination August 15 1975 | The day before his assassination
Pressenza - International Press Agency: Strict Security Ensured Nationwide on Anniversary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib's Assassination - Pressenza
New Age BD: Sheikh Mujib killing day today
bdnews24.com: Awami League faces another Aug 15 under political shadow on 51st anniversary of Sheikh Mujib’s assassination
The Business Standard: Sheikh Mujib's 51st death anniversary today
daily-sun.com: 51st anniversary of Sheikh Mujib’s assassination today - daily-sun.com
The Daily Star: College lecturer suspended over Aug 15 Facebook post paying respect to Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
News18: Opinion | Bangabandhu Means Bangladesh: Why August 15 Cannot Be Erased From Its History
Bangladesh Awami League: The Unbroken Thread: Decades of Attempts to Erase Bangabandhu’s Family and the Secular Soul of Bangladesh
O Heraldo: When Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Asked Soldiers to Wait for His Pipe
AFP Fact Check rated the claim “Mamata Banerjee's recent tribute to Sheikh Mujibur Rahman” False.
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On 17 December 15th amendment was declared illegal by the Supreme Court of Bangladesh during the Interim government of Muhammad Yunus
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The Bangladeshi government reported that five fugitives are still on the run, including coup leader Rashid
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The Hasina government organised a year-long grand programme to mark the centenary of his birth
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"Tumi Banglar Drubotara" (You are the star of Bengal), a song composed by poet Kamal Chowdhury on the occasion of Mujib Year was released
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The Centre for Research and Information (CRI) department of Bangladesh Awami League published a four-part children's comic book named Mujib based on Sheikh Mujib's two autobiographies
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The Awami League-led parliament of Bangladesh passed the 15th amendment to the country's constitution which referred to Sheikh Mujib as the "Father of the Nation" in attached fifth, sixth, and seventh schedules covering
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The university withdrew its famously politically motivated expulsion order
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The term "Father of the nation" was removed by the BNP government led by Khaleda Zia, despite protests from the then opposition party Bangladesh Awami League, led by Sheikh Mujib's daughter Sheikh Hasina
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Listeners of BBC Bangla radio service ranked Mujib first among the 20 Greatest Bengalis, ahead of Asia's first Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore; Bangladesh's national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam; and other Bengali icons lik
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After his daughter Sheikh Hasina was elected as prime minister
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And recorded in 1991 named "Jodi Raat Pohale Shona Jeto" became popular during election
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While serving as the President of Bangladesh, Ziaur Rahman had a positive attitude towards bringing a proposal in the National Parliament to officially recognize Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as the "Father of the Nation", but b
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Died 1975-08-15.
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Career landmark: President of Bangladesh (1975–1975).
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Launched the Second Revolution, under which he installed a one party regime and abolished all kinds of civil liberties and democratic institutions, by which he "institutionalized autocracy" and made himself the "unimp
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“My greatest strength is the love for my people, my greatest weakness is that I love them too much.”
The government sought to invite international oil companies to explore the Bay of Bengal for oil and natural gas
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Major General Ziaur Rahman, the sector commander during the liberation war and the then Deputy Chief of Army Staff, referred to Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as the "Father of the Nation"
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Mujib remarked that "In spite of the acceleration of the process of abolishing colonialism, it hasn't reached its ultimate goal
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Mujib said "injustice is still rampant in many parts of the world
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“In spite of the acceleration of the process of abolishing colonialism, it hasn”
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“injustice is still rampant in many parts of the world. Our Arab brothers are still fighting for the complete eviction of the invaders from their land. The equitable national rights of the Palestinian people have not yet been achieved”
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The Third International Criminal Law Conference was held at the Bangladesh Institute of Law and International Affairs; the meeting supported calls for the creation of an international penal court
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Focused state investments into agriculture and cottage industries
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The government introduced the International Crimes (Tribunal) Act to prosecute 195 Pakistani PoWs under Indian custody
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Thousands of Bengalis arrived from Pakistan while many non-Bengali industrialists and capitalists emigrated; poorer non-Bengalis were stranded in refugee camps
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Mujib told David Frost that he was a strong man but he had tears in his eyes when he saw pictures of the 1971 Bangladesh genocide
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Career landmark: Prime Minister of Bangladesh (1972–1975).
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The four policies became the four fundamental state policies of Bangladesh
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When its newly adopted constitution included the word "secularism" for the first time in the region
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David Frost Program in Bangladesh, a documentary based on interviews with Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was released
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But withdrew its veto in 1974 which allowed Bangladesh to join the UN
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Is recognized by UNESCO for its historic value, and was listed in the Memory of the World Register
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Organisation of food supply, health services and other necessities
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Career landmark: President of Bangladesh (1971–1972).
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Were arrested and eventually executed on 3 November 1975
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Where he vaguely called out for the independence movement
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And restoring the Bengali sovereignty after over two centuries following the Battle of Plassey in 1757, for which he is honoured as Bangabandhu (lit
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Mujib led the Awami League to win Pakistan's first general election
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Campaign: 1970 election.
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President Ayub Khan convened a Round Table Conference with opposition parties to find a way out of the prevailing political impasse
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Mujib put forward a 6-point plan at a national conference of opposition parties in Lahore
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Mujib was elected President of the Awami League
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Pakistan banned the works of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore in state media
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And 1965 he was in prison for 665 days in different terms
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Mujib became General Secretary of the All Pakistan Awami League with Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan as its titular president
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Toured the United States as part of the State Department's International Visitor Leadership Program
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Mujib visited the People's Republic of China
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Mujib was expelled from Dhaka University on charges of inciting employees against the university
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Became part of a liberal, secular and left-wing faction which later became the Awami League
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Was greeted by a rally of the State Language Struggle Committee
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Sheikh Mujib also joined the "United Bengal Movement" which was organized under the leadership of Suhrawardy, Abul Hashim, Sarat Chandra Bose and others to form an undivided independent Bengal outside the jurisdiction of
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At the height of the Pakistan movement, Mujib was elected as General Secretary of the Islamia College Students Union in Calcutta
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Was elected as secretary of the Faridpur District Association, a Calcutta-based association of residents from Faridpur
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Was elected as a councillor of the Muslim League
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Sheikh Mujibur Rahman went to the house of Gopalganj Hindu Mahasabha president Suren Banerjee when his classmate friend Abdul Malek was beaten up
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Entered the third grade of Gopalganj Public School
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As a residential university modelled on Oxford and Cambridge where students would be affiliated with colleges; but its residential character was dramatically changed after partition and students became affiliated with de
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Born 1920-03-17.
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East Pakistan must get full regional autonomy. It must be self-sufficient in all respects. It must get its due share and legitimate share in the central administration. The West Pakistani people support [East Pakistani demands]. Only the vested interests want to divide the people of East and West Pakistan
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