By Farzana Tamannur

The month of August is the month of grief. On 15 August 1975, on the Independence Day of Pakistan and India, the greatest Pakistani-Bengali of all times, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman along with a maximum of his family members, was inhumanly killed by some disgruntled Army officers of newly independent Bangladesh. The confessed assassins even did not spare Sheikh Russul of 10 years child of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

In line with the continued 24-year struggles and movements against the oppressing Pakistani leaders and marginalization of poor, especially Bengalis, he did in his great speech on 7 March 1971, at Sohrawardi Udyan is a memorable one. At that day he called for 7 days Hartal to make Army back to barracks and allow people representatives to exercise their right. He said that martial should be withdrawn and Assembly should be restored only then he will decide whether to sit in the Assembly or not. In fact, West Pakistan’s Army did great injustice and killed or injured innocent Bengalis. He was great leader so he asked people of Bangladesh to fight injustices by closing everything for 7 days followed by further action from 28 March 1971. He made it clear that if salaries are not made by 28 March and even a single Bengali is killed there would struggle for liberty and independence from the tyrant rulers on the basis of which Pakistan was created.

After the most authoritarian genocide occurred on the night of 25 March 1971, the country again heard his announcement of independence on the voice of Major Zia ur Rahman. On that night, the Pakistani military arrested Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from his home at Dhanmondi. He was confined for the entire nine months of the war for freedom in the jails of Pakistan. But the fight ran underneath based on his ideology. While confined, he was under the pressures of execution but never gave up on the demand to end injustices, as he is the most outstanding leader. After the war of liberty ended, Pakistan leaders as planned had no other option to release him back to Bangladesh. Sheikh Mujib Ur Rehman returned on 10 January 1972, with a heroic welcome toward his anticipated liberated Bangladesh as new sovereign country.

After coming back toward a war-torn country, he started working on re-establishing the nation from the wrecks of the war. In his battle towards the nation's reconstruction, he had a firm faith that the people of the government would never forget his devotion and contribution to the country. Never might consider of them as ingrates. As the president of the recently formed Bangladesh, he kept living in his non-glamorous house at Dhanmondi 32, in place of any state-provided home.

The conspiracies of the beaten evil powers never stopped and a campaign against continued in Pakistan and India but also in Bangladesh. To avenge not getting the desired results, they constantly kept laying tricks with conspiracies. Those plotters used those aspirant mist tormented army members on that 15th August murder to place such a conspiracy into reality. And they confronted the house at Dhanmondi 32, also recognized as the refinement place for independence. They killed Sheikh Mujib Ur Rehman and all of his family members. With that monstrous, the cruelest killing ever in the history of the world plus human civilization, they not only murdered Sheikh Mujib but tried to kill the morals the thousand years anticipated and achieved ideals of liberation along with him.

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, after he returned to his country as a hero, started the gigantic task of reconstruction of the war distressed country. Because he failed in understanding the gravity of the conspiracy devised against him, he fell to the bullets of the murderers and became a martyr. History would remember him as an individual who loved his country as well as its people - maybe too much. Long live his memorial. Heroes live forever. Conspirators have murdered Sheikh Mujib Ur Rehman but they could not get rid of his ideology and the purpose for which he sacrificed his life. Hus name would always be written in golden words for ever.