Metropolis Desk –
On Thursday, a number of events will take place all around Bangladesh to remember Jail Killing Day, the day that the nation’s top national leaders were murdered.
Syed Nazrul Islam, Tajuddin Ahmad, Captain M Mansur Ali, and AHM Quamruzzaman, four national figures and heroes of the country’s Liberation War, were assassinated on November 3, 1975, while detained by the government within Dhaka Central Jail.
Following the violent murder of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the majority of his family on August 15, 1975, the nation was undergoing significant political transformation at the time.
The Mujibnagar government, which oversaw the Liberation War effort in 1971 with Nazrul Islam serving as acting president, Tajuddin as prime minister, Mansur Ali as the finance minister, and Qamruzzaman as the minister of housing, relief, and rehabilitation, was significantly influenced by the four leaders.
Jail Killing Day will be observed by several political parties, including the ruling Awami League, in remembrance of this tragic period in Bangladeshi history.
The national flag and the party flag will be flown at half-mast by the Awami League and its affiliated organizations. Additionally, they will don black badges of grief.
The leaders and members of the Awami League will visit the Banani cemetery to pay their respects to Nazrul Islam, Tajuddin, and Mansur Ali, who are interred there. Additionally, tribute will be offered at Quamruzzaman’s grave in Rajshahi.
Additionally, a cultural program will be held by the Centre for Tajuddin Ahmad Research and Activism to commemorate the day.
In the meantime, the four national leaders received individual tributes from the president Abdul Hamid and the prime minister Sheikh Hasina.
“The killers’ purpose was to wipe the spirit of the Liberation War from the minds of the young people,” the president added. “Apart from fostering an undemocratic dictatorial government that failed.”
The four national leaders’ achievements will be remembered by the country with reverence forever.
Sheikh Hasina, the prime minister, said: “The assassination of the four national leaders was a continuation of the murder of the nation’s founder and the majority of his family. Through it, the defeated forces and anti-state groups made a despicable effort to ruin the spirit of the Liberation War and eliminate the Bengali national leader by removing the Awami League’s name.”
