As the army went on an orgy of killing, even as March 25 gave way to March 26, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman gave out the call for independence. He then waited for the soldiers to come for him. At around 1:00am he was placed under arrest by an elite unit of the Pakistan army and taken to the under-construction National Assembly building (today’s Jatiya Sangsad bhaban) at Sher-e-Banglanagar. The commanding officer of the soldiers then called the cantonment, to report: ‘Big bird in cage. Little birds have flown.’ Did General Tikka Khan wish to have Sheikh Mujibur Rahman brought before him? The general’s crude reply: ‘I don’t want to see his face.’ Bangabandhu was then taken to Adamjee College in the cantonment, where he would be lodged for the next few days before being flown to West Pakistan. [Read More]

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Source: The Daily Star