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 Kirtimaan - Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was born on 17 March 1920 in the village Tungipara under the gopalganj Sub-division (currently district) in the district of Faridpur
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's father, Sheikh Lutfar Rahman, was a serestadar in the civil court of Gopalganj.
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman passed his matriculation from Gopalganj Missionary School in 1942, IA (Twelfth Grade) from Islamia College, Calcutta in 1944 and BA from the same College in 1947.
www.kirtimaan.info /docs/sheikh_mujibur_rahman.php   (731 words)

  
 .: Joy Bangla :. A Tribute to The Father of The Nation
Sheikh Hasina was born on 28th September, 1947 in Tungipara, a remote village under Gopalganj district, which is also the birth- place of the Father of the Nation, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
Sheikh Hasina was forced to live in exile because of the restrictions put on her by General Ziaur Rahman, the President of Bangladesh at the time.
Sheikh Hasina was sworn in as the Prime Minister of the People's Republic of Bangladesh, the nation her father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had founded 25 years ago.
www.joybangla.net /sh/pp5.html   (1042 words)

  
 Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Summary
Sheik Mujibur Rahman (1920-1975) was a charismatic leader who organized dissent and rebellion against the British in India, led the Bengalis of East Pakistan in their resistance to the unjust actions of the post-colonial Pakistani government, and finally helped found the independent nation of Bangladesh in 1972.
Sheik Mujibur Rahman (Mujib) was born on March 17, 1920, in Tongipara village in the Gopalganj subdivision of the Faridpur district in the eastern part of the province of Bengal in British India.
Rahman led the Muslim Students League in organising strikes and protests, and was arrested along with his colleagues by police on March 11.
www.bookrags.com /Sheikh_Mujibur_Rahman   (6619 words)

  
 Virtual Bangladesh : Biography: Sheikh Hasina
Sheikh Hasina was born on September 28, 1947 at Tungipara, a remote village under Gopalgonj district which is also birth place of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
Sheikh Hasina actively participated in the mass upsurge of 1969 and at the time of the Liberation War of 1971, she was imprisoned by Pakistani occupation army along with her husband, mother, sister and brother.
Sheikh Hasina was unanimously elected the president of the Awami League in 1981 while she was still in exile.
www.virtualbangladesh.com /biography/hasina.html   (577 words)

  
 Mujibur Rahman Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (also Sheikh Mujib; March 17, 1920 - August 15, 1975) was a Bengali nationalist leader in East Pakistan and first Prime Minister and President of independent Bangladesh.
Sheikh Mujib was arrested, but many of his supporters managed to escape to India, where they declared a provisional government for an independent in East Pakistan.
In 1996, Sheikh Mujib's daughter, Hasina Wazed, was elected prime minister of Bangladesh.
www.biographybase.com /biography/Rahman_Mujibur.html   (436 words)

  
 96-068 (Sheikh Hasina)
Sheikh Hasina is the daughter of Bangladesh's slain independence leader, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who was killed in a military coup in 1975.
Sheikh Hasina was sworn in as the 10th prime minister of Bangladesh on June 23, 1996, 21 years after her party - the Awami League - was ousted by a military coup.
Sheikh Hasina's father and leader of the Awami League, Bangabandhu (Friend of Bangladesh) Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, was assassinated during that coup Aug. 15, 1975.
www.brown.edu /Administration/News_Bureau/1996-97/96-068.html   (681 words)

  
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Mujibur Rahman was brutally murdered along with 26 others, including his wife, three sons (one of them was just 10 years old), two daughters-in-law, brother, close relatives, political associates and security men in a pre-dawn attack on August 15, 1975.
Mujibur Rahman was assassinated three and a half years after he led East Pakistan to independence from West Pakistan through a bloody war of liberation, which was in effect a firm rejection of the "Two-Nation Theory" of Mohammad Ali Jinnah (this theory led to the Partition of India in 1947).
Speaking to newspersons, Sheikh Hasina said: "The day the verdict is executed, the people of Bangladesh will be free from the curse." In a voice choked with emotion she expressed her gratitude to all those who protested against the injustice and those who sacrificed their lives demanding a trial.
www.hinduonnet.com /fline/fl1524/15240040.htm   (2498 words)

  
 Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS) - About Bangladesh
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and other nationalist leaders put up stiff resistance against it and were detained for years together.
Sheikh Mujib emerged stronger than before and in the elections of 1970 his party had a landslide victory capturing 167 out of 169 parliamentary seats in the fray.
Responding to the wishes and aspirations of his people, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman took the charge of the new-born country and directed all his energies towards the reconstruction and rebuilding of the war-ravaged impoverished country.
www.bssnews.net /sheikh_mujibur_rahman.php   (686 words)

  
 Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS) - About Bangladesh
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman along with the members of his family was killed on the night of 15 August 1975.
Sheikh Hasina and her younger sister Sheikh Rehana were the only survivors as they were in West Germany at that time.
Sheikh Hasina was conferred on Doctor of Law by the Boston University of the USA on 6 February 1997 and the Waseda University of Japan on 4 July 1997, Desikottama (Doctor of Liberature, honoris causa) by Visva-Bharati University of West Bengal, India on 28 January 1999.
www.bssnews.net /sheikh_hasina.php   (478 words)

  
 Mujibur_Rahman - Thagodz Wiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (Bangla: শেখ মুজিবর রহমান Shekh Mujibur Rôhman) (March 17, 1920August 15, 1975) was a Bengali political leader in East Pakistan and the founding leader of Bangladesh.
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in his whole speech gave a clear cut description of the prevailed political situation and attitudes of the West Pakistani regime as well as he also reshuffled the movement and awakened our own destiny.
Sheikh Mujib in the initial stage of his speech informed the people many events under which he was prompted to take over the power in a peaceful and systematic manner.
www.thagodz.com /search/wiki/?title=Mujibur_Rahman   (5719 words)

  
 Throughout her college and university years Sheikh Hasina actively participated in political movements   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
It was Sheikh Hasina's unbounded courage and inner strength of personality that sustained her during the traumatic period that followed her return to Bangladesh in 1981.
In the manner of her illustrious father Sheikh Hasina's deep love for the people of Bangladesh was combined with the conviction that the voice of the people would ultimately be heard.
Sheikh Hasina suffered imprisonment several times, fought two national elections and led a massive popular movement through which she ousted an autocratic military dictator from power.
www.sheikhhasina.ws /home/common/profile/political1.htm   (813 words)

  
 Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was born in a respectable Muslim Family on 17 March, 1920, in Tungipara village under the then Gopalganj subdivision (at present district) of Faridpur district.
He was the third child among four daughters and two sons of Sheikh Lutfar Rahman and Sheikh Shahara Khatun.
Sheikh Mujib immediately plunged in hectic activities to build a strong movement against the muslim League's premeditated, heinous design to make Urdu the only state language of Pakistan.
www.bangabandhu.org /profile.html   (1261 words)

  
 :: Munshigonj District | BangaBondhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman ::
Bongobondhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was born in a respectable Muslim family on 17 March 1920, in Tungipara village under the then Gopalganj subdivision (at present district) of Faridpur district.
Sheikh Mujib was named accused number one in the case that charged the arrested persons with conspiring to bring about the secession of East Pakistan from the rest of Pakistan.
In the pre-dawn hours of 15 August, the noblest and the greatest of Bengalees in a thousand years, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the architect of Bangladesh and the Father of the Nation, was assassinated by a handful of ambitious and treacherous military officers.
www.munshigonj.com /BangladeshSection/BangaBandu.htm   (4629 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was born in Tungipara, a village in Gopalganj District in the province of Bengal, to Sheikh Lutfar Rahman, a serestadar, or an officer responsible for record-keeping at the Gopalganj civil court.
Ziaur Rahman and Hossain Mohammad Ershad reversed the state's commitment to secularism and socialism, and most of Mujibur Rahman's signature policies.
Sheikh Hasina lost power in the 2001 elections, but remained the opposition leader and one of the most important politicians in Bangladesh.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Sheikh_Mujibur_Rahman   (4581 words)

  
 Bongobondhu’s unfulfilled dream is still anathema to pro-Pakistani element in Bangladesh   Shabbir Ahmed
At that time, Bongobondhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman organized the secular and non-communal intellectuals and other social forces of our motherland to stand against the military and their allied fundamentalist “Muslim Leaguers” of Pakistan.
It was possible for a towering and charismatic leader like Bongobondhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman to unite our people against the communal ruling classes of Pakistan, who were using Islam at all levels to keep our motherland under their Ummatic system.
Rahman elaborately mentioned about the programs (under BKSAL) taken by then government a bit early to eradicate poverty and hunger through massive cooperative programs in the agro-based areas in the villages throughout Bangladesh.
www.mukto-mona.com /Articles/shabbir/bangabandhu2005.htm   (1290 words)

  
 BNP Forum Bangladesh   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Ziaur Rahman (January 19, 1936 - May 30, 1981) was an military officer in Pakistan Army at that time who declared the independence of Bangladesh on March 26th, 1971, on behalf of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and served as the 6th President of Bangladesh from 1977 to his assassination in 1981.
Following the assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1975, Rahman declared himself as Chief Martial Law Administrator in 1975 and later again in 1976, and assumed the presidency in 1977.
Bangladesh's former president Ziaur Rahman, the brain behind the SAARC grouping, was honoured posthumously with the grouping's award during the Dhaka summit in 2005.
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 FORGOTTEN HEROES
From that day onwards, Sheikh Mujib's charisma and authority ascended with the public activity of students whose vision of independence was not the same as his, but gave his strength, as his gave theirs hope and legitimacy.
Events on March 7, 1971 dramatised Sheikh Mujib's political predicament, for he was, at that specific moment, both the personification of a Bengali nation in the midst of a popular rebellion against Pakistan, and also the elected majority leader of Parliament, poised to become Pakistan's Prime Minister.
Sheikh Mujib continued to follow the constitutional path, in the midst of a popular revolution led by loyal followers who rallied behind him but also pursued a vision of national sovereignty that swept the nation along another path.
www.sas.upenn.edu /~dludden/LuddenFrontlineHeroes.htm   (4685 words)

  
 :: Munshigonj District | Sheikh Hasina ::
Sheikh Hasina was born on 28th September 1947 in Tungipara, a remote village under Gopalganj district, which is also the birthplace of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
Governments have come and gone since the cowardly assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1975, but the toiling masses that form the bulk of the population of Bangladesh were always kept at bay in exercise of the power of the state.
Sheikh Hasina had to cover a long way in her struggle to establish democracy in Bangladesh with the sole objective of giving rise to a free and just society.
www.munshigonj.com /BangladeshSection/OppLeader.htm   (2203 words)

  
 h5p4
In the report it was stated that the accused maintained close contacts with Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his associates and trusted officials and used to hold secret meetings.
Describing the arrest and murder of Shiraj Shikdar in the rapport it was said that at one stage late Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the accused took a decision to infiltrate government agents in the party to kill Shiraj Shikdar and destroy the party.
On 2nd January evening he was taken to Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Banga Bhaban by the police and the special squad of JRB in a hand cuffed position.
www.majordalim.com /h5p4.htm   (942 words)

  
 Welcome to Bangladesh Awami League
The 31st death anniversary of Bongobondhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the supreme leader of Bangladesh's arduous struggle for independence, is being observed throughout the country, as well as in other parts of the world, today in a befitting manner.
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was born on March 17, 1920, in Tungipara of Gopalganj district.
In her message on the occasion, Awami League President and daughter of Bongobondhu, Sheikh Hasina remembered the great leader's heroic role in the independence of the country and urged all to be on the side of righteousness in the battle against untruth and injustice.
www.albd.org /news/2006/08/15/15.htm   (1786 words)

  
 Inretrospect   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was arrested by the Pakistani army on the night of 25-26 March.
Sheikh Mujib was put in the middle troop carrying vehicle and they proceeded towards the Cantonment.
Sheikh Mujib was taken to the National Assembly building and then up the stairs and made him sit on the landing.
www.weeklyholiday.net /140602/inret.html   (3865 words)

  
 [Genocide/1971] The Events in East Pakistan: Events March 1-25   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's reaction was to call a five-day general strike (hartal) throughout East Pakistan.
Sheikh Mujibur replied by putting forward four demands which had to be accepted before the Awami League would consider attending the National Assembly.
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman took the salute at an armed march past from his residence, from which the new Bangladesh flag was unfurled.
www.globalwebpost.com /genocide1971/docs/jurists/3_events_march.htm   (3626 words)

  
 Bangabandhu
Sheikh Mujib was elected a member of the Constituent Assembly.
Sheikh Hasina, Sheikh Kamal, Sheikh Zamal, Sheikh Rehana, Sheikh Russell
As Sheikh Mujib saw their strike legitimate, he refused to pay the fine and consequently was withdrawn from the university.
www.muktadhara.net /page23.html   (1412 words)

  
 .: Joy Bangla :. A Tribute to The Father of The Nation
Its purpose was to enquire why the processes of law andjustice had not taken their course regarding the murder ofSheikh Mujibur Rahman and his family and others on 15 August1975 and of four national leaders while under detention in DaccaCentral Jail on 3 November 1975.
The initiative to constitute this Commission was taken by SirThomas WiUiams, Q.C., M.P., in response to an appeal made bySheikh Hasina and Sheikh Rehana, surviving daughters of lateBangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, and by Mr.
Sheikh Fazlul Huq Moni, a nephew of Bangabandhu and one of the Secretaries of the ruling party.
www.joybangla.net /justice/report.html   (1492 words)

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