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Monday, January 7, 2008

[chottala.com] News analysis: Text Book Board also needs reform?By Mostafa Kamal Majumder,editor ,The New Nation

News analysis: Text Book Board also needs reform?

Mostafa Kamal Majumder

A controversy is now on regarding a series of changes that have been brought to the school text books published by the National Curriculum and Text Book Board. Allegations are there that some of the changes have gone even beyond the bipartisan types of changes to contents of books that the nation observed during the 15 years of two-party rule beginning in 1991.

If NCTB books create controversy even during the rule of the non-partisan caretaker government, then the relevant authorities may possibly have to consider also reform of the NCTB with a view to making it neutral. What, for instance, the NCTB has aimed to achieve by deleting the role of those great leaders who envisioned the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) and had taken it to a shape before its formal launch in 1985.

From where school students would know that the proposal to form the regional group, mooted by Bangladesh, was at the beginning viewed with suspicion by both India and Pakistan which have over time emerged as its very influential players. From where pupils would learn that it was former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi at who's instance the words 'Association for' were added to the first proposed name 'South Asian Regional Cooperation,' of the group, and that the move to form the group was from its very outset spontaneously greeted from two capitals - Kathmandu and Colombo.

The changes that have been made to the books for the 2008 academic year relate not only to the contributions of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman which were highlighted more during the five years of the Awami League and those of Shaheed Ziaur Rahman whose contributions were in greater focus during the two terms of the BNP government. They even include interpretation of political movements and elections in a partisan manner, it has been alleged.

The chairman of the NCTB has been quoted as saying that the changes have been made by a committee which, if need be, can be modified. Question, however, arises as to whether NCTB authorities thought they would make their marks only if they change the emphasis that had been given in some chapters of different books. Could not they have done changes by avoiding the creation of fresh controversies?

When SAARC was formally launched in this historic city of Dhaka 23 years ago, only the host head of state and another head of government refrained from making reference to its founder - the late Ziaur Rahman. Five other heads of state or government had paid glowing tributes to him in their inaugural addresses that for some technical reasons were not broadcast live from its venue - the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban.

Supplements sponsored by the then government and published in Dhaka dailies did also avoid making mention of Zia's name although news reports and analyses did not commit this omission. That's now history. Has the NCTB taken on itself the task of rewriting it, that too under a non-partisan government? Responsible quarters probably need to consider bringing the NCTB also under the process of institutional reforms - as has been done in respect of the Election Commissioin, the Anti-Corruption Commission and the Public Service Commission - so that text book lessons do not change with the change of government in future.

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[chottala.com] Empty vassels sound much:Mr Inu, can u say,who killed Kazi Aref? why his wife quit JSD immidiatly after the killing?

Dear all,

there are many political parties in our country.The conspirators against our country impose much importance on some so called political parties having no base in peoples of this country.Even they are invited in conspirators function to say about peoples right and national policy.

Mr Hasanul Hoque Inu in president of JSD.This part had no Representative in last parliament.

Some times we see that Mr inu or this type people is given more importance than leaders popular parties.

When Inu was Secretary of this party president Kazi Aref was killed along with 4 others in Kustia.Mr Inu is also from Kustia, But he was not present in the Meeting .After the killing Aref's wife quited THE JSD.Relatives of others killed in the incident suspect Mr Inu for the mastermind behind that.

So my question is Mr Inu, can u say,who killed Kazi Aref? why his wife quit JSD immediately after the killing?

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[chottala.com] Bangladesh is building 2000 new cyclone shelters - build them using floating tec

Bangladesh is building 2000 new cyclone shelters - build them using floating technique

If we do not start this today, few years from now, someone else will be effected. Netherland and EU can help us in providing new technology.

All new government initiated projects in the areas where rising sea level is expected to adversely hit, should adopt this new technology. Without going into details, we are providing two news item from two countries. Our policymakers, designers, architects and engineers should read these two news item together and they should seriously consider whether the two information should be combined together to make Bangladesh better prepared.

If Netherland can plan to upgrade or build all the regular houses, we can at least start that process with the cyclone centers. Don't you think so?

If you thought some of the ideas are worth of your reading time, please forward it to others. If you have an ear to the columinsts in regular traditional media, please forward it to them. If you have an ear to the journalists and news editors of the electronic media, discuss it with them. Hope they would look at the suggestions and give due diligence.

Thanks for your time,
Innovation Line

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Note: This is a freelance column, published mainly in different internet based forums. This column is open for contribution by the members of new generation, sometimes referred to as Gen 71. If you identify yourself as someone from that age-group and want to contribute to this column, please feel free to contact. Thanks to the group moderator for publishing the article.
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Netherlands floats new housing idea

August 21, 2007

Source: http://sgpropertypress.wordpress.com/2007/08/21/netherlands-floats-new-housing-idea/

Many towns plan to accommodate floating homes in face of climate fears

(AMSTERDAM) The Dutch answer to fears over climate change and lack of space is a modern three-storey luxury villa with a roof terrace, large living room, three bedrooms and, crucially … a water-proof hull.

Dozens of Dutch municipalities are planning new districts with room for floating homes and, as more and more socalled water lots become available, the market is experiencing a boom.

`There is this idea that it's reassuring that these houses will stay afloat even if the Netherlands is flooded,' Yvonne de Korte of the Amsterdam architecture centre Arcam told AFP.

In the Netherlands, a densely populated country where one third of the land is below sea level, the threat of rising sea levels is a constant one.

`We are no longer only worrying about global warming, we are now actively looking for solutions for the consequences of climate change,' climatologist Rik Leemans of the Wageningen University said.

`There has been a real change in the Dutch mentality … Before we were hiding behind our dykes. Now we are finding ways to create space for rising water levels and looking upon it as a chance to develop new ideas,' he added.

The Dutch government is not only keeping up the maintenance on its impressive system of dykes and flood dams, but has also launched plans to divert rivers and create designated delta areas that can be flooded in case of a sudden rise in water levels.

The luxury floating villa by ABC Arkenbouw on show in Amsterdam together with the exhibition `Living on Water' is a prototype aimed at people who buy so-called water lots in IJburg.

IJburg is a new housing development built on an artificial island in the east of Amsterdam and is expected to house 45,000 people between now and 2020.

The water lots in the new neighbourhood are on sale for between 110,000 and 140,000 euros (S$228,000 and S $290,000) and allow people to moor a floating house on a special landing.

`It is a great new market, we are building 40 floating homes this year and plan 60 next year,' said Marian Spenkeler of ABC Arkenbouw.

The company is specialised in building houseboats, the classic barge type that you see in the canals of Amsterdam, and is now turning more and more to constructing boathouses that look like floating villas.

`It attracts all kinds of buyers from young families with kids to pensioners,' Mr Sprenkeler said.

The floating villas cost around 250,000 euros. Taken with the price of the lot, this is a little lower than the prices for comparable family homes on IJburg.

The boathouse is built with the latest technology with all modern conveniences and floats on a concrete pontoon that doubles as a partly submerged basement with bedrooms.

For most of the 20th-century houseboat dwellers were, according to architecture expert De Korte, considered `a fringe group, poor people who did not have enough money to buy a real house on firm ground'.

In the 1970s houseboats become a popular choice for hippies as the ultimate sign of rejecting the bourgeois lifestyle.

In the last 10 years, that has changed as living on water has become increasingly fashionable and a number of housing projects started including water houses in their development plans.

To give an idea of the different forms of living on water Arcam has organised an exhibit in Amsterdam with models and real houseboats, including one over 80 years old.

Source: Business Times 14 Aug 07

2,000 new cyclone shelters to be built this year in Bangladesh
Tuesday, 01.08.2008, 03:03am (GMT+6)

Source: http://www.bangladeshjournal.com/article/Bangladesh/157/

DHAKA, Bangladesh, Jan 7 (BSS): Secretary of the Bangladesh Ministry of Food and Disaster Management Dr Mohammad Ayub Miah today said 2,000 new cyclone shelters will be built in the coastal areas of the country's 15 districts as part of the government's disaster preparedness.

A sub-committee for setting up the cyclone centres has been formed which will submit a report within this month on how the cyclone centers could be make sustainable, he said this while inaugurating a workshop on 'Cyclone Sidr 2007: Early Recovery' at BIAM auditorium here this morning.

United Nations development Programme (UNDP) and the Disaster Management Bureau (DMB) jointly organised the workshop in cooperation with Comprehensive Disaster Management Programme
(CDMP).

With director general of DMB KH Masud Siddiqui in the chair, the function was addressed, among others by UNDP country director Manoj Basnyat, chief of programme division of the Ministry of Planning Dr Idris Ali Dewan, director of DMB Mohammad Abu Sadeque, high officials of different ministries and development partners.

Dr Mohammad Ayub Miah said Bangladesh is a disaster-prone country and the recent cyclone Sidr had caused massive damage to lives and properties particularly in agriculture sector.

The government, he said, is taking a comprehensive and 12- month loss recovery programme aimed at reducing the loss of cyclone survivors in the southwestern coastlines of the country.

KH Masud Siddiqui underscored the need for carrying out more research on disaster preparation with a view to strengthening the country's disaster preparedness.

Manoj Basnyat appreciated the government's ongoing coordinated efforts aiming at reducing the sufferings of the Sidr- hit people.

"We are ready to provide necessary assistance to Bangladesh for early recovery of the economic loss suffered the country due to the cyclone Sidr," he added.

@ The Bangladesh Journal

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[chottala.com] Re: [khabor.com] Taj Uddin Ahmad - The man who liberated Bangladesh

Thanks to Dr. Taj Hashmi and Mr. Waheed Asghar for correcton and

additions.

Corretions:
Tajuddin Ahmed was born in 1925 at village Dardaria in Kapasia thana of Gazipur District. He obtained Matriculation in 1942, I.A in 1948, and B.A (Hons) in Economics from Dhaka University in 1953. He obtained Law degree in 1964 [He took the exam while in Jail]

Mr. Ashgar, can you request Mr. Tanveer Mokammel to put a

video version of the documentary in the internet, if possible?

Here is another good book on Mr. Tajuddin Ahmed:

TAJUDDIN AHMED : NETA O MANUSH

Published

January, 2003

On 1/7/08, Waheed Asghar <asghar.w@gmail.com> wrote:

Mr.Aslam

I think you have missed a very important work on Mr. Tajuddin Ahmed by Tanveer Mokammel in docu-film titled Tajuddin Ahmed-Nishshongo Sharothi which is a must see for any one interested in the history of Bangladesh starting from 1947.One may also read Badruddin Omer,s Vasha Andoloner Itihash where role of Tajuddin Ahmed is documented from his diary.Also read is his daughter,s recollection in Amar Baba.I am not using any reference now & writing from recollrction &there may be slight error in the name of books,but will be

in the ballpark.Thanks,

Waheed A

On 1/7/08, Syed Aslam <Syed.Aslam3@gmail.com > wrote:

Taj Uddin Ahmad

The man who liberated Bangladesh in the Independence War of 1971

1925 Kapasia, Dhaka

" I can envision a horrific future awaiting those of us leading the liberation war. If we lose the war, we'll be shot in the firing squad. If we win, the counter revolutionaries will kill us in independent Bangladesh."

Tajuddin in 71 while directing the Liberation War

Muldhara 71 : history of the critical days of liberation war as recorded in Taj Uddin's diary and published by his personal secretary Muyeedul Hasan: Chapter 1, Chapter II, Chapter III, Chapter IV

Taj Uddin Ahmad: A Profile

Date Event

23 July 1925 Born of Maulabhi Mohd Yasin Khan and Meher-un-Nesa Khan in the village Daradia of Kapasia PS in Gazipur district.

Education

Kapasia Minor English School, St Nicholas English school, Kaliganj, Muslim Boys' school, Dhaka and St Gregory's high.

1934 Secured 12^{th position in the combined merit list in SSC exam.}

1938 ^{Secured 4th position in the combined merit list in HSC exam.}

¹⁹⁴² ^{Civil Defense training}

1943 ^{BA (Honors) in Economics from Dhaka University}

¹⁹⁴⁶ ^{Sat for and obtained LLB degree from the prison as a political prisoner}

^{Political life}

1943 ^{Active supporter of the progressive faction (Abdul Hashim group) of Muslim League}

1944 ^{Elected the councilor of the Muslim League of the Eastern wing of Pakistan}

^{6-7 September, 1947} ^{One of the founding organizers (others being Sheikh Mujib, Mohd Toyaha, Shamsul Huq, Tasadduk Ahmed) of the secular youth forum-Democratic Youth League.}

^{4 January 1948} ^{Founding organizers of East Pakistan Students' League (now BCL)}

¹⁹⁴⁹ ^{One of the founding organizers of East Pakistan Awami (meaning people) Muslim League (AL)}

^1953-57 ^{General Secretary, Dhaka Zilla Awami Muslim League and Awami League}

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¹⁹⁵⁴ ^{1954: Elected MLA as a candidate of United Front by defeating the general secretary of Muslim League.}

¹⁹⁵⁵ ^{1955: Elected the cultural and welfare secretary of Awami League.}^{Staunch supporter of Mujib in his initiative to secularize Awami League by removing "Muslim" from the party's name}

¹⁹⁶² ^{Played an active role in anti martial law campaign against Pakistani military dictator Ayub Khan}

¹⁹⁶⁴ ^{Supported Mujib to revive Awami League severely repressed by Pakistani military dictators. Elected the Organizational Secretary of Awami League}

¹⁹⁶⁶ ^{Key figure in drawing up and launching the historic Six Point Movement. Elected the General Secretary of Bangladesh Awami League. Accompanied Mujib to the Round Table Conference in Lahore. Organized and launched the Six Point Movement through out Bangladesh and due to his activism was arrested by the Pakistani rulers on 8 May 1966.}

¹⁹⁶⁸ ^{Elected the GS of Awami League while being in the prison.}

¹⁹⁶⁹ ^{Released from the prison following the Mass Movement of 1969}

¹⁹⁷⁰ ^{Elected the GS of Awami League for the third term. Elected a member of the Pakistan Legislative Assembly}

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^{1 March} ^{Sheikh Mujib called for a non-cooperation movement throughout Bangladesh as a protest against Yahyah Khan's annulment order of the Pakistan Legislative Assembly. Awami League virtually took over the governance of east Bangla and Tajuddin as the chief administrator, designated by of Sheikh Mujib, efficiently ran all the public sectors of East Bangla.}

^{25-26 March} ^{Massacre of Bangalees by Pakistan occupation army. Escaped the Pakistani SS forces and went underground}

^{27-29 March} ^{Headed for Indian border on foot, by motorbike and boat}

^{30 March} ^{Reached Meherpur near Indian border. Contacted the Indian officials}

^{1 April} ^{Reached Delhi on special arrangement by Indian government to initiate a talk with the Indian prime minister to obtain Indian support for the independence of Bangladesh}

^{4 April} ^{Formal meeting with Indira Gandhi, the prime minister of India and negotiated unconditional Indian support for the Independence of Bangladesh.}

^{6 April} ^G^{ave the prime ministerial speech in support of the independence of Bangladesh from Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendro}

^{10 April} ^{Formed the provisional government and took the office of the prime minister.}

^{11 April} ^{Addressed the nation via the radio as the prime minister of independent Bangladesh}

^{17 April} ^{Formal oath as the prime minister at Mujib Nagar}

^{17 April-16 Dec} ^{Led the war of independence against the Pakistani occupation army and achieved victory on 16 December 1971}

^{24 December} ^{Returned to Dhaka from Mujib Nagar with the members of his ministry}

^{12 January 1972} ^{Voluntarily quit (the first ever in the history of Bangladesh) the prime ministerial post. ^{Took oath as the Finance and Planning minister}}

^{30 June 1972} ^{Gave the first national budget}

^{24 Sept 1972} ^{Gave speech in the Commonwealth conference of the finance ministers}

^{26 April 1973} ^{Represented Bangladesh in the ADB conference held in Manila}

^{14 April 1974} ^{Second National budget}

^{21 Nov 1973} ^{Five Year Fiscal Plan}

^{28 July 1973} ^{Attended the IMF committee meeting}

^{26 September 1973} ^{Represented Bangladesh in the annual conference of International Monitory Fund and the World Bank held at Nairobi}

^{16 January 1974} ^{Ministerial speech at the IMF conference in Rome}

^{20 January 1974} ^{Resigned from the post of the General Secretary of Awami League}

^{24 April 1974} ^{Ministerial speech at the ADB conference in Kuala Lumpur}

^{8 June 1974} ^{Ministerial speech at the IMF conference in Washington}

^{August 1974} ^{Saudi Arab, Kuwait and Iraq visit}

^{September 1974} ^{USSR visit}

^{26 October 1974} ^{Quit the ministry on Mujib's call (thanks to Mostak gang's ascendancy over Mujib)}

^{15 August 1975} ^{Assassination of Mujib and Tajuddin house arrested by the coup leaders (Cols Faruk / Rashid) and Mostak}

^{23 August 1975} ^{Taken to the Dhaka central jail on Mostak's order}

^{3 November 1975} ^{Bayoneted to death in Dhaka central jail by the troops led by Risalder Moslem and sent by the coup leaders (Cols Faruk / Rashid) on express order from Mostak, the president.}

Tajuddin's Appeal to the International Community in support of Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971

TO THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD
A statement issued by the Prime Minister of Bangla Desh
Tajuddin Ahmad, on 17.04.1971

Bangla Desh is at war. It has been given no choice but to secure its right of self-determination through a national liberation struggle against the colonial oppression of West Pakistan.

In the face of positive attempts by the Government to distort the facts in a desperate attempt to cover up their war of genocide in Bangla Desh, the world must be told the circumstances under which the peace-loving people of Bangla Desh were driven to substitute armed struggle for parliamentary politics to realize the just aspirations of the people of Bangla Desh.

The Six Point Program for autonomy for Bangla Desh within Pakistan had been put forward in all sincerity by the Awami League as the last possible solution to preserve the integrity of Pakistan. Fighting the elections to the National Assembly on the issue of Six Points, the Awami League won 167 out of 169 seats from Bangla Desh out of a house of 313. Its electoral victory was so decisive that it won 80% of the popular votes cast. The decisive nature of its victory placed it in a clear majority within the National Assembly.

The post election period was a time of hope, for never had a people spoken so decisively in the history of parliamentary democracy. It was widely believed in both wings that a viable constitution based on six points could be worked out. The Pakistan Peoples party which emerged as the leading party in Sind and Punjab had avoided raising the issue of Six Points in their election campaign and had no obligation whatsoever to its electorate to resist it. In Baluchistan the dominant party, National Awami Party, was fully committed to Six Points. In NWFP, the NAP dominant in the Provincial Assembly, was also a believer in maximum autonomy. The course of the elections, which marked the defeat of the reactionary parties, therefore, gave every reason to be optimistic about the future of democracy in Pakistan. Preparatory to the convening of the National Assembly talks were expected between the main parties in the political areas. However, whilst the Awami League was always willing, preparatory to going to the Assembly, to explain its constitutional position and to discuss alternative proposals from other parties, it is believed that the spirit of true democracy demanded that the constitution be debated and finalized in the National Assembly rather tan in secret sessions. To this end, it insisted on an early summoning of the National Assembly. In anticipation of this session, the Awami League worked day and night to prepare a draft constitution based on Six Points and fully examined all the implications of formulating and implementing such a constitution.

The first major talks over Pakistan's political future took place between General yahya and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in Mid-January. In this session General proved the extent of the Awami League's commitment to its program and was assured that they were fully aware of its implications. But contrary to expectation did not fully spell out his own ideas about the constitution. General gave the impression of not finding anything seriously objectionable in Six Points but emphasized the need for coming to an understanding with the PPP in Western Pakistan.

The next round of talks took place between the PPP and the Awami League from 27th January, 1971 in Dacca where Mr. Bhutto and his team held a number of sessions with the Awami League to discuss the constitution.

As in the case with, Mr. Bhutto did not bring any concrete proposals of his own about the nature of the constitution. He and is advisors were mainly interested in discussing the implications of Six Points. Since their responses were essentially negative and they had no prepared brief of their own it was not possible for the talks to develop into serious negotiations where attempts could be made to bridge the gap between the two parties. It was evident that as yet Mr. Bhutto had no formal position of his own from which to negotiate.

It must be made clear that when the PPP left Dacca there was no indication from their part that a deadlock had been reached with the Awami League. Rather they confirmed that all doors were open and that following a round of talks with the West Pakistani leaders the PPP would either have a second and more substantive round of talks with the Awami League or would meet in the National Assembly whose committees provided ample opportunity for detailed discussion on the constitution.

Mr. Bhutto's announcement to boycott the National Assembly, therefore, came as a complete surprise. The boycott decision was surprising because Mr. Bhutto had already been accommodated once by the President when he refused Sheikh Mujib's plea for an early session of the Assembly on the 15th of February and fixed it, in line with Mr. Bhutto's preference, for 3rd March.

Following his decision to boycott the Assembly, Mr. Bhutto Launched a campaign of intimidation against all other parties in West Pakistan to prevent them from attending the session. In this task there is evidence that Lt. General Umer, Chairman of the National Security Council and close associate of, with a view to strengthening Mr. Bhutto's hand, personally pressured various West Wing leaders not to attend the Assembly. In spite of this display of pressure tactics by Mr. Bhutto and Lt. Gen Umer, all members of the National Assembly from West Pakistan, except the PPP and the Qayyum Muslim League, had booked their seats to East Pakistan, for the session on 3rd March.

Within the QML itself, half their members had booked their seats and there were signs of revolt within the PPP where many members were wanting to come to Dacca. Faced with the breakdown of this joint front against Bangla Desh, General obliged Mr. Bhutto on 1st March by postponing the Assembly, not for any definite period, but sine die. Moreover he dismissed the Governor of East Pakistan, Admiral S. M. Ahsan, who was believed to be one of the moderates in his administration. The Cabinet with its component of Bengalis was also dismissed so that all power was concentrated in the hands of the West Wing military junta.

In these circumstances Yahya's gesture could not be seen as anything but an attempt to frustrate the popular will by colluding with Mr. Bhutto. The National Assembly was the only forum where Bangla Desh could assert its voice and political strength, and to frustrate this was a clear indication that Parliament was not to be the real source of power in Pakistan.

The reaction to the postponement in Bangla Desh was inevitable and spontaneous and throughout the land people took to the streets to record their protest at this arbitrary act. People now felt sure that they (Pakistani authority) never really intended to transfer power, and was making a mockery of parliamentary politics. The popular mood felt that the rights of Bangla Desh could never be realized within the framework of Pakistan, where could so blatantly frustrate the summoning of an assembly proclaimed by his own writ and urged that Sheikh Mujibur Rahman must go for full independence.

Sheikh Mujib however continued to seek a political settlement. In calling for a program of non-cooperation on 3rd March he chose the weapon of peaceful confrontation against the army of occupation as an attempt to bring them to their senses. This was in itself a major gesture in the face of the cold blooded firing on unarmed demonstrators on the 2nd and 3rd March which had already led to over a thousand casualties.

The course of the non-cooperation movement is now a part of history. Never in the course of any liberation struggle has non-cooperation been carried to the limits attained within Bangla Desh between first and 25th March. Non-cooperation was total. No judge of the High Court could be found to administer the oath of office to the new Governor Lt. General Tikka Khan. The entire civilian administration including he police and the Civil Service of Pakistan, refused to attend office. The people stopped supply of food to the army. Even the civilian employees of the Defense establishment joined the boycott.

Non-cooperation did not stop at abstention from work. The civilian administration and the police positively pledged their support to Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and put themselves under his orders.

In this situation the Awami League without being a formally constituted Government, was forced to take on the responsibility of keeping the economy and administration running whilst non-cooperation lasted. In this task they had the unqualified support not only of the people but the administration and the business community. The latter two subordinated themselves to the directives of the Awami League and accepted them as the sole authority to solve their various problems.

In these unique circumstances the economy and administration were kept going in spite of the formidable problems arising out of the power vacuum which has suddenly emerged in Bangla Desh. In spite of the lack of any formal authority, Awami League volunteers, in cooperation with the police, maintained a level of law and order which was a considerable improvement on normal times.

Faced with this demonstration of total support to the Awami League and this historic non-cooperation movement, General appears to have modified his tactics. On the 6th March, he still seemed determined to provoke a confrontation when he made his highly provocative speech putting the full blame on the crisis, on the Awami League and not even referring to the architect of the crisis, Mr. Bhutto. It seems that he expected a declaration of independence on 7th March. The Army in Dacca was put on full alert to crush the move and Lt. Gen. Tikka Khan was flown in to replace Lt. Gen. Yakub to signify the hardening of attitudes within the Junta.

Sheikh Mujib, however, once again opted for the path of political settlement in spite of massive public sentiment for independence. In presenting his 4-point proposal for attending the National Assembly he not only had to contain the public mood but to leave a way open for to explore this last chance of a peaceful settlement.

It is now clear that Pakistani Generals never had the slightest intention of solving Pakistan's political crisis peacefully but were only interested in buying time to permit the reinforcement of their military machine within Bangla Desh. Yahya's visit to Dacca was a mere cover for his plan of genocide. It now becomes clear that contingency plans for such a crisis had already begun well in advance of the crisis. Shortly before 1st March tanks which had been sent north to Rangpur to defend the borders were brought back to Dacca. From the 1st March the families of Army personnel were being sent off to West Pakistan on a priority basis as were the families of West Pakistani businessmen.

The military build-up was accelerated after 1st March and continued throughout the talks up to 25th March. Members of the armed forces dressed in civilian clothes were flown in PIA commercial flights via Ceylon. C 130s carrying arms and provisions for the garrisons flew in to Dacca. It is estimated that up to one division, with complementary support, was brought into Bangla Desh between 1st and 25th March. To ensure security, the airport was put under strict air force control and heavily guarded with artillery and machine gun nets whilst movement of passengers was strictly supervised. As SSG commando group especially trained in operations in sabotage and assassinations was distributed in key centers of Bangla Desh and were probably responsible for the attacks on Bengalis in Dacca and Saidpur in the two days before 25th march to provoke clashes between locals and non-locals so as to provide a cover for military intervention.

As part of this strategy of deception adopted the most conciliatory posture in his talks with Mujib. In the talks beginning on the 16th of march, he expressed regrets for what had happened and his sincere desire for a political settlement. In a crucial meeting with Sheikh Mujib he was asked to positively state the Juntas position on the Awami Leagues 4-point proposal. He indicated that there was no serious objection and that an interim constitution could be worked out by the respective advisors embodying the four points.

The basic points on which agreement was reached were:

1.Lifting of Martial Law and transfer of power to a Civilian Government by a Presidential Proclamation. 2. Transfer of power in the provinces to the majority parties 3. To remain as President and in control of the Central Government 4. Separate sittings of the National Assembly members from East an West Pakistan preparatory to a joint session of the house to finalize the constitution.

Contrary to the distortions now put out by both Yahya and Bhutto the proposal for separate sittings of the Assembly was suggested by to accommodate Mr. Bhutto. Hi cite the practical advantage that whilst 6-points provided a viable blueprint to regulate relations between Bangla Desh and the Center its application would raise serious difficulties in the West Wing. For this reason West Wing MNAs must be permitted to get together to work out a new pattern of relationships in the context of the Six-point constitution and the dissolution of One Unit.

Once this agreement in principle had been reached between Sheikh Mujib and there was only the question of defining the powers of Bangla Desh vis-a-vis the Center during the interim phase. Here it was again jointly agreed that the distribution of power should as far as possible approximate to the final constitution approved by the National Assembly which, it was expected, would be based on Six Points.

For working out this part of the interim settlement Mr. M. M. Ahmed, the Economic Advisor to the President was specially flown in. In his talks with the Awami League advisors he made it clear that provided the political agreement had been reached there were no insuperable problem to working out some version of Six Points even in the interim period. The final list of three amendments to the Awami League draft which he presented as suggestions, indicated that the gap between the Government and Awami League position was no longer one of principle but remained merely over the precise phrasing of the proposals. The Awami league in its sitting of 24th March had accepted the amendments with certain minor changes of language and there was nothing to prevent the holding of a final drafting session between the advisors of the President and Mujib when the interim constitution would be finalized.

It must be made clear that at no stage was there any breakdown of talks or any indication by General or his team that they had a final position which could not be abandoned.

The question of legal cover for the transfer of power is merely another belated fabrication by to cover his genocide. He and his team had agreed that, in line with the precedence of the Indian Independence Act of 1947, power could be transferred by Presidential Proclamation. The notion that there would be no legal cover to the agreement raised subsequently by Mr. Bhutto and endorsed by General (Yahya) was never a bone of contention between Sheikh Mujib and Pakistani authorities. There is not the slightest doubt that had indicated that a meeting of the National Assembly was essential to transfer power, the Awami League would not have broken the talks on such a minor legal technicality. After all as the majority party it had nothing to fear from such a meeting and its acceptance of the decision for a separate sitting was designed to accommodate Mr. Bhutto rather than a fundamental stand from the party.

Evidence that agreement in principle between contending parties had been reached is provided by Mr. Bhutto's own Press Conference on 25th March. It is not certain what passed in the separate session between General and Mr. Bhuttto but there is evidence that deliberate falsehoods about the course of the talk with the Awami League were fed to the PPP who were told that Sheikh Mujib was determined to have a showdown and was daily escalating his demands. Needless to say not the slightest indication of these misgivings have been raised in the meetings between the Awami League team and General Yahyas advisors where amicability and optimism prevailed to the end.

Whilst hope for a settlement was being raised more ominous signs of the intentions of the army were provided by their sudden decision to unload the munitions ship MV Swat berthed at Chittagong Port. Preparatory to this decision, Brigadier Mazumdar, a Bengali officer commanding the garrison in Chittagong had been suddenly removed from his command and replaced by a West Pakistani. On 24th night he was flown to Dacca under armed escort and has probably been executed. Under the new command notice was given to local authorities of the decision to unload the ship in spite of the fact that the army had abstained from doing so for the last 17 days in the face of non-cooperation from the port workers. The decision to unload was a calculated provocation which immediately brought 100,000 people on the streets of Chittagong and led to massive firing by the Army to break their way out. The issue was raised by the Awami League with General Peerzada as to why this escalation was being permitted whilst talks were still going on. He gave no answer beyond a promise to pass it on to General.

Following the final meeting between General Yahya's and Awami League's advisors on 24th March where Mr. M.M. Ahmed passed on his amendments, a call was awaited from General Peerzada for a final session where the draft could be finalized. No such call materialized and instead it was learnt that Mr. M. M. Ahmed, who was central to the negotiations, had suddenly left for Karachi on the 25th morning without and warning to the Awami League team.

By 11P.M. of the 25th all preparations were ready and the troops began to take up their positions in the city. In an act of treachery unparalleled in contemporary history a program of calculated genocide was unleashed on the peaceful and unsuspecting population of Dacca by midnight of 25th March. No ultimatum was given to the Awami League, no curfew order was even issued when the machine guns, artillery and canon on the tanks unleashed their reign of death and destruction. By the time the first Martial Law proclamations issued by Lt. General Tikka Kahn were broadcast the next morning some 50,000 people, most of them without offering any resistance, and many women and children, had been butchered. Dacca had been turned into an inferno with fires raging in most corners of the city. Sleeping inhabitants who have been drawn from their homes by the fires started by the military, were machine gunned as they ran to escape the flames.

Whilst the police, EPR, and armed volunteers put up a heroic resistance, the main victims remained the weak, the innocent and the unsuspecting who were killed at random in their thousands. We are compiling a first hand account of the details of genocide committed by the Pakistani Army on the orders of the President of Pakistan which we will publish shortly. The scale and brutality of the action exceeds anything perpetrated in the civilized world.

The President (Yahya) himself left Dacca on the night of 25th March after having unleashed the Pakistan Army, with an open license to commit genocide on all Bengalis. His own justification for this act of barbarism was not forthcoming till 8 P.M. the next day when the world was given its first explanation for the unleashing of this holocaust. This statement was self-contradictory and laced with positive lies. His branding of a party as traitors and outlaws, with whom he had only 48 hours ago been negotiating for a peaceful transfer of power, bore no relationship to the situation in Bangla Desh or the course of the negotiations. His promise to hand over power to the elected representatives of the people after banning the Awami League which was the sole representative of Bangla Desh and held a majority of seats in the National Assembly was a mockery of the freely recorded voice of 75 million Bengalis. The crudity of the statement was clear evidence that he was no longer interested in taking shelter behind either logic or morality and had reverted to the law of the jungle in his bid to crush the people of Bangla Desh.

Pakistan is now dead and buried under a mountain of corpses. The hundreds and thousands of people murdered by the (Pak) army in Bangla Desh will act as an impenetrable barrier between West Pakistan and the people of Bangla Desh. By resorting to pre-planned genocide must have known that he was himself digging Pakistans grave. The subsequent massacres perpetrated on his orders by his licensed killers on the people were not designed to preserve the unity of a nation. They were acts of racial hatred and sadism devoid of even the elements of humanity. professional Soldiers, on orders, violated their code of military honor and were seen as beasts of prey who indulged in an orgy of murder, rape, loot, arson and destruction unequaled in the annals of civilization. These acts indicate that the concept of two countries is already deeply rooted in the minds of his associates who would not otherwise dare commit such atrocities on their own countrymen.

Yahya's genocide is thus without political purpose. It serves only as the last act in the tragic history of Pakistan which has chosen to write with the blood of the people of Bangla Desh. The objective is genocide and scorched-earth before his troops are either driven out or perish. In this time he hopes to liquidate our political leadership, intelligence and administration, to destroy our industries and public amenities and as a final act he intends to raze our cities to the ground. Already his occupation army has made substantial progress towards this objective. Bangla Desh will be set back 50 years as West Pakistans parting gift to a people they have exploited for 23 years for their own benefit.

This is a point of major significance to those great powers who choose to ignore this largest single act of genocide since the days of Belsen and Auschwitz. If they think they are preserving the unity of Pakistan they can forget it because the president (Yahya) himself has no illusions about the future of Pakistan. They must realize that Pakistan is dead and murdered by - and that independent Bangla Desh is a reality sustained by the indestructible will and courage of 75 million Bengalis who are daily nurturing the roots of this new nationhood with their blood. No power on earth can unmake this new nation and sooner or later both big and small powers will have to accept it into the world fraternity.

It is therefore, in the interest of politics as much as humanity for the big powers to put their full pressure on to cage his killers and bring them back to West Pakistan. We will be eternally grateful to the people of USSR and India and the freedom loving people of all countries for their full support they have already given us in this struggle. We would welcome similar support from the Peoples Republic of China, USA, France, Great Britain and all Afro Asian countries who have freed themselves from colonial rule and from all freedom loving countries. Each in their own way should exercise considerable leverage on West Pakistan; and were they to exercise this influence, could not sustain his war of aggression against Bangla Desh for a single day longer.

Bangla Desh will be the eighth most populous country in the world. Its only goal will be to rebuild the nation from the ashes and carnage left behind by Yahya's occupation army. It will be a stupendous task because of destruction of economy by Yahya's army in our already underdeveloped and overpopulated region. But we now have a cause and a people who have been hardened in the resistance, who have shed their blood for their nation and won their freedom in an epic struggle which pitted unarmed people against a modern army. Such a nation cannot fail in its task of securing the foundations of its nationhood.

In our struggle for survival we seek the friendship of all people, the big powers and the small. We do not aspire to join any bloc or pact but will seek assistance from those who give it in a spirit of goodwill free from any desire to control our destinies. We have struggled far too long for our self determination to permit ourselves to become anyone's satellite.

We now appeal to the nations of the world for recognition and assistance both material and moral in our struggle for nationhood. Every day this is delayed a thousand lives are lost and more of Bangla Deshs vital assets are destroyed. In the name of Humanity act now and earn our undying friendship.

This we now present to the world as the CASE of the people of Bangla Desh. Bangla Desh has earned her right to recognition at great cost, as the people of Bangla Desh made sacrifices of unequal magnitude and fought hard in order to establish the rightful place for Bangla Desh in the community of Nations.

Mujib and Taj: The liberators of Bangladesh

"Lilie, said Tajuddin I never made a wrong decision in my whole life. But the deadliest mistake of my life was not leaving home in the fatal night of 15 August."

Tajuddin to his wife

"
....... I had to bury a huge pain in the hearts of my heart. Mujib bhai who was embedded in my mind forever, Mujib bhai who over the years became part of my being, that Mujib bhai never asked me, even for a day, Tajuddin what did you do in 71 when I was away. Never asked Tajuddin, you tell me, I'd like to hear about 71....."
My Childhood in 1971 and my dad Tajuddin Ahmad: Shimeen Hussain Rimi

Books on Tajuddin Ahmad
1. Muldhara 71: Muyeedul Hasan. UPL
2. Tajuddin Ahmad's Diary (Vol I & II), Pratibhas, Dhaka, 1999
3. Tajuddin Ahmad: Endless Stream of Light: Simeedn Hossaiin Rimi, Pratibhas, Dhaka 2006

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[chottala.com] Re: [notun_bangladesh] Rice Crisis - Just blame the Indians !

When the rice price is high, and the crooks are wielding guns,
Call upon your Advisors to bash the Indians.

Again do what Jamaatis do:

Just blame the Indians ......

When everyone around you is complaining of the news,
And some condemn the Americans while others blast the Jews,

Stiffen up your lips and never be on the run--
Just be a "True Patriot", and blame the Indians.........

In the mean time Enjoy the videos:

Laal GoRu SaaDaa GoRu PuThiii Paath Part I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZ4M4lRE0r8

Laal GoRu SaaDaa GoRu PuThiii Paath Part II

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=463CZJpRjTc&feature=related

Ittadi Bangla Parody song, comedy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VbxW7iSmOA&feature=related

Note: "Patriotism, sir, is the last resort of scoundrels,"

said Dr. Johnson.

On 1/7/08, [notun_bangladesh] a.risc < a.risc@yahoo.com> wrote:

Can anyone tell me the reason for the current rice crisis?

Thanks in advance.

AR

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[chottala.com] Bleak Future in Bangladesh

"Shamim ." <lionhrt79@hotmail.com> wrote:

What makes you even think that the condition in Bangladesh is miserable? Are you trying to say that the two most corrupted leaders, Khaleda and Hasina, ran the country in a much better way? In a way I guess you are right. Back in the days those shameless uneducated leaders and their party leaders had their ways to suck people's blood and steal money, but now they can't. It hurts, doesn't it? Bangladesh will never go forward as long it has blind supporters like you who supports corruption only. Reminds me of a joke that goes like "in hell God kept the people different countries in different drums. All the lids were closed except for Bangladeshi drum. When angel asked God why not that lid is closed, why give them a chance to escape, God said don't worry, these are Bangladeshis, if one person tries to escape for good, others will pull him/her down and won't let go." I know you guys hate the CTG and you know very well that CTG doesn't care what you think. They will be in power until the election is done. Help them out, get them out of your way, and then you will have your corruption back. Thank you.

Shamim H.

From: wouldbemahathirofbd@yahoo.com

Mr. Choudhury you are really doomed,once you supported Dr. Yunus. after you supported this CTG. but you could not know them at the begining.hence you are frustrated now.

but if you want to make some one pass in any subject, he/she must have internal quality to pass in that subject and your suggesstion may help him/her to pass.

But this so called helper army run has no internal quality to pass that was clear to many . but support from some doom like you had made them over confident .

However, Bangladesh is now heading towards anaccident like helper run bus as frequently happen in Bangladesh.

You people are not less responsible for this miserable condition of bangladesh for your overwhelming support to this nonsense( as sensed by the letter of UN ) CTG.

"M. M. Chowdhury (Mithu)" <cgmpservices@yahoo.com> wrote:

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[chottala.com] Why Amenesty's Irene Khan urges Govt: Initiate trial process & It is also the part of duty of Miss. Khan of AI for establishing right of human of the middle & lower class people.of '71 war criminals after 36 years !!! Eto din por ghum vanglo ? k vanngalo?

The duty of the Government is to provide secured welfare life to the citizen & to keep uphold the human right for all. It is also the moral duty of the Government to form an enquiry & tribunal board for investigating to do trial against all persons/teachers/ in education section & other related persons whether army or political leaders who are responsible for violeting human right by

1) Creating bad situation in the education area & creating Season jots

2) Not taken regular classes to provide correct education to the students

3) Not taken examination & not given result in due time

4) Not honored by the University at abroad the certificates of the students getting from Bangladesh University after obtaining degree/graduation.

5) The graduate students from Bangladesh University are treated in abroad as below standard educated persons in comparison with the graduate students of University in abroad.

For establishing Justice of quality education to provide throughout the country for all & for establishing Justice of Humanity & Human right of the students & their parents is the part of human right.

It is also the part of duty of Miss. Khan of AI for establishing right of human of the middle & lower class people.

Salahuddin Ayubi <ayubi_s786@yahoo.com> wrote:

Dear Ms. Khan,
These questiion should not be directed to
Miss. Khan of AI rather the answers to these questions
lie in the university ordinance of 1973 that were
suppose to make the universities autonomous but made
them hot bed of teacher's politics. Students politics
coupled with teachers politics made a dangerous
cockitail of destroying the edcational system of the
country. Rich are not affected as their children do
not study here but abroad. It is the middle and lower
middle class that has to foot the bills for the
abnormally long extended stay of students in the
universities.
Salahuddin Ayubi
--- dina khan wrote:

> Dear Irene Khan
> Please ask the Government for establishing Justice
> of quality education & Justice of Humanity & Human
> (students & their parents) Right to form an enquiry
> & tribunal board for investigating to do trial
> against all persons/teachers/other related persons
> whether army or political leaders in all University
> & Education Section
> 1) Why are suffering the students in season
> jots?
> 2) Why are not taken regular classes?
> 3) Why are not taken examination & not given
> result in due time?
> 4) Why are not honored by the University in
> abroad the certificates of the students getting from
> Bangladesh University after obtained
> degree/graduation??
> 5) Why are they treated in abroad as below
> standard educated persons in comparison with foreign
> University Graduates??
>
>
>
>
>
> "Md. Aminul Islam"
> wrote: Dear all,
> People of Bangladesh want the trial of all
> criminals in due time.But why Amenesty want trial of
> 71 war criminals after so long period? What is the
> motive behind it?Why they were in deep sleep ?Do
> they hatch any conspiracy against our mother land.?
> It is noted that I saw picture where this Irene is
> talking to Isrel people 'tortured 'by Palestine
> people.! ! !
> Irene Khan urges Govt: Initiate trial process of
> '71 war criminals
> Staff Reporter
>
> The visiting Amnesty International's Secretary
> General Irene Khan yesterday urged the caretaker
> government to initiate the process for holding trial
> of 1971 war criminals.
> "An initiation by the present government will help
> the next elected government take the issue forward,"
> she said while briefing reporters after a seminar on
> 'Campaign for Human Dignity' at LGED Extension
> Building at Agargaon in the city.
> Irene Khan said the Amnesty International (AI), a
> UK-based human right watchdog, was ready to help the
> government with its experience on war criminals
> trial in different countries
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[chottala.com] Court dismisses sedition charges against Mujahid

Court dismisses sedition charges against Mujahid

Mon, Jan 7th, 2008 5:52 pm BdST
Dhaka, Jan 7 (bdnews24.com) – A Dhaka court Monday
dismissed sedition charges a freedom fighter had
pressed against Jamaat-e-Islami secretary general Ali
Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid and two others.

Chief metropolitan magistrate for Dhaka Md Emran
Hossain Chowdhury dismissed the case, which also
involves Jamaat's assistant secretary general Abdul
Kader Molla and former Islami Bank chairman Shah
Mohammad Abdul Hannan.

Fazlur Rahman, a freedom fighter from Keraniganj,
filed the case on Dec 5 against them for making
disparaging statements about the nation's War of
Independence and freedom fighters.

The same court had accepted the case and asked Tejgaon
Police Station to record the case. Police later
returned the case to the court, saying they did not
get approval from the government to do so.

On Dec 11, the magistrate set Dec 18 for a decision
about the fate of the case. But the court did not do
so and set Dec 22 for the decision. Again, it reset
the date for Jan 7.

The complainant and his lawyers rejected the court
decision Monday and said they would move the High
Court to challenge the order.

According to case details, Mujahid on Oct 25 said in
an interview aired on different TV channels that there
were no anti-liberation forces or war criminals in the
country.

On Oct 26, Hannan cited the liberation war as a 'civil
war' in an interview with a TV channel.

Kader Molla at a discussion on Oct 31 said the freedom
fighters joined the war to protect the interest of
India.

He also made other controversial statements about the
freedom fighters.

bdnews24.com/pb/su/jr/bd/1711hours

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[chottala.com] Empty vassels sound much:Mr Inu, can u say,who killed Kazi Aref? why his wife quit JSD immidiatly after the killing?

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Taj Uddin Ahmad: A Profile

[chottala.com] Re: [notun_bangladesh] Rice Crisis - Just blame the Indians !

[chottala.com] Bleak Future in Bangladesh

[chottala.com] Why Amenesty's Irene Khan urges Govt: Initiate trial process & It is also the part of duty of Miss. Khan of AI for establishing right of human of the middle & lower class people.of '71 war criminals after 36 years !!! Eto din por ghum vanglo ? k vanngalo?

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Date	Event
23 July 1925	Born of Maulabhi Mohd Yasin Khan and Meher-un-Nesa Khan in the village Daradia of Kapasia PS in Gazipur district.
	Education
	Kapasia Minor English School, St Nicholas English school, Kaliganj, Muslim Boys' school, Dhaka and St Gregory's high.
1934	Secured 12^{th position in the combined merit list in SSC exam.}
1938	^{Secured 4th position in the combined merit list in HSC exam.}
¹⁹⁴²	^{Civil Defense training}
1943	^{BA (Honors) in Economics from Dhaka University}
¹⁹⁴⁶	^{Sat for and obtained LLB degree from the prison as a political prisoner}
	^{Political life}
1943	^{Active supporter of the progressive faction (Abdul Hashim group) of Muslim League}
1944	^{Elected the councilor of the Muslim League of the Eastern wing of Pakistan}
^{6-7 September, 1947}	^{One of the founding organizers (others being Sheikh Mujib, Mohd Toyaha, Shamsul Huq, Tasadduk Ahmed) of the secular youth forum-Democratic Youth League.}
^{4 January 1948}	^{Founding organizers of East Pakistan Students' League (now BCL)}
¹⁹⁴⁹	^{One of the founding organizers of East Pakistan Awami (meaning people) Muslim League (AL)}
^1953-57	^{General Secretary, Dhaka Zilla Awami Muslim League and Awami League}
¹⁹⁵⁵
¹⁹⁵⁴	^{1954: Elected MLA as a candidate of United Front by defeating the general secretary of Muslim League.}
¹⁹⁵⁵	^{1955: Elected the cultural and welfare secretary of Awami League.}^{Staunch supporter of Mujib in his initiative to secularize Awami League by removing "Muslim" from the party's name}
¹⁹⁶²	^{Played an active role in anti martial law campaign against Pakistani military dictator Ayub Khan}
¹⁹⁶⁴	^{Supported Mujib to revive Awami League severely repressed by Pakistani military dictators. Elected the Organizational Secretary of Awami League}
¹⁹⁶⁶	^{Key figure in drawing up and launching the historic Six Point Movement. Elected the General Secretary of Bangladesh Awami League. Accompanied Mujib to the Round Table Conference in Lahore. Organized and launched the Six Point Movement through out Bangladesh and due to his activism was arrested by the Pakistani rulers on 8 May 1966.}
¹⁹⁶⁸	^{Elected the GS of Awami League while being in the prison.}
¹⁹⁶⁹	^{Released from the prison following the Mass Movement of 1969}
¹⁹⁷⁰	^{Elected the GS of Awami League for the third term. Elected a member of the Pakistan Legislative Assembly}
	¹⁹⁷¹
^{1 March}	^{Sheikh Mujib called for a non-cooperation movement throughout Bangladesh as a protest against Yahyah Khan's annulment order of the Pakistan Legislative Assembly. Awami League virtually took over the governance of east Bangla and Tajuddin as the chief administrator, designated by of Sheikh Mujib, efficiently ran all the public sectors of East Bangla.}
^{25-26 March}	^{Massacre of Bangalees by Pakistan occupation army. Escaped the Pakistani SS forces and went underground}
^{27-29 March}	^{Headed for Indian border on foot, by motorbike and boat}
^{30 March}	^{Reached Meherpur near Indian border. Contacted the Indian officials}
^{1 April}	^{Reached Delhi on special arrangement by Indian government to initiate a talk with the Indian prime minister to obtain Indian support for the independence of Bangladesh}
^{4 April}	^{Formal meeting with Indira Gandhi, the prime minister of India and negotiated unconditional Indian support for the Independence of Bangladesh.}
^{6 April}	^G^{ave the prime ministerial speech in support of the independence of Bangladesh from Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendro}
^{10 April}	^{Formed the provisional government and took the office of the prime minister.}
^{11 April}	^{Addressed the nation via the radio as the prime minister of independent Bangladesh}
^{17 April}	^{Formal oath as the prime minister at Mujib Nagar}
^{17 April-16 Dec}	^{Led the war of independence against the Pakistani occupation army and achieved victory on 16 December 1971}
^{24 December}	^{Returned to Dhaka from Mujib Nagar with the members of his ministry}
^{12 January 1972}	^{Voluntarily quit (the first ever in the history of Bangladesh) the prime ministerial post. ^{Took oath as the Finance and Planning minister}}
^{30 June 1972}	^{Gave the first national budget}
^{24 Sept 1972}	^{Gave speech in the Commonwealth conference of the finance ministers}
^{26 April 1973}	^{Represented Bangladesh in the ADB conference held in Manila}
^{14 April 1974}	^{Second National budget}
^{21 Nov 1973}	^{Five Year Fiscal Plan}
^{28 July 1973}	^{Attended the IMF committee meeting}
^{26 September 1973}	^{Represented Bangladesh in the annual conference of International Monitory Fund and the World Bank held at Nairobi}
^{16 January 1974}	^{Ministerial speech at the IMF conference in Rome}
^{20 January 1974}	^{Resigned from the post of the General Secretary of Awami League}
^{24 April 1974}	^{Ministerial speech at the ADB conference in Kuala Lumpur}
^{8 June 1974}	^{Ministerial speech at the IMF conference in Washington}
^{August 1974}	^{Saudi Arab, Kuwait and Iraq visit}
^{September 1974}	^{USSR visit}
^{26 October 1974}	^{Quit the ministry on Mujib's call (thanks to Mostak gang's ascendancy over Mujib)}
^{15 August 1975}	^{Assassination of Mujib and Tajuddin house arrested by the coup leaders (Cols Faruk / Rashid) and Mostak}
^{23 August 1975}	^{Taken to the Dhaka central jail on Mostak's order}
^{3 November 1975}	^{Bayoneted to death in Dhaka central jail by the troops led by Risalder Moslem and sent by the coup leaders (Cols Faruk / Rashid) on express order from Mostak, the president.}