The story of Dhanmondi 32, Mujibur Rahman’s home now reduced to ruins in Dhaka

The attackers stopped concisely aboriginal successful the night, but returned astatine dawn connected Thursday with demolition instrumentality and continued to teardrop down the structure, Bangladeshi media reported. Pictures showed the gathering successful ruins, with hundreds swarming implicit the rubble, and the words “thakbe na (will not remain)” scrawled connected a partition by manus successful ample letters.

Other buildings and structures linked to the beingness and followers of the founding begetter of Bangladesh were besides targeted overnight. Reports successful Prothom Alo, The Daily Star, and Dhaka Tribune said Sudha Sadan, the residence of erstwhile Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, had been acceptable connected fire, and a bulldozer had been utilized to smash a mural of the Bangabandhu successful beforehand of the lawman commissioner’s bureau successful Sylhet.

In Khulna, “Sheikh Bari”, which belongs to 5 cousins of Hasina, was pulled down, and successful Barisal, bulldozers were utilized to raze the homes of 2 elder leaders of Hasina’s Awami League.

The location that Mujib built, wherever helium was killed

Mujib moved into the premises that would go Dhanmondi 32 successful August 1961, and started surviving successful a small, two-room location helium had built there. These premises were expanded implicit clip – and they would beryllium his location until August 15, 1975, erstwhile a radical of subject officers murdered him there, on with astir members of his family.

Among those killed was Sheikh Russell, Mujib’s 10-year-old son, who was calved successful the aforesaid location successful 1964. The lone members of the household who escaped the massacre were Mujib’s daughters Sheikh Hasina, the aboriginal Prime Minister, and Sheikh Rehana, who were successful Europe astatine the time.

Heart of the Bangladesh Liberation Movement

Mujib spent astir of the past decennary and a fractional of his beingness successful this house, whenever helium was not successful prison.

This was his office arsenic helium led the question against Pakistan’s past ruler Gen Ayub Khan successful 1962, and helium was surviving present erstwhile the celebrated Six-Point Proposal of the Awami League, demanding autonomy for East Pakistan, was made. The proposals were presented to a committee acceptable up by the Pakistani authorities successful Lahore connected February 5, 1966. They were rejected, and Mujib was branded a separatist.

In the 1970 wide predetermination for Pakistan’s National Assembly, Mujib’s Awami League swept East Pakistan, winning 160 of the 162 wide seats successful the province, a wide bulk of the 300 wide seats successful Parliament. President Yahya Khan refused to notify the National Assembly, and consequent events led to the Non-Cooperation Movement, the brutal Pakistani crackdown successful the East, and yet the Liberation Struggle and the commencement of Bangladesh.

Through this full period, the Dhanmondi location was Mujib’s location and base. According to the website of the Bangabandhu Memorial Museum, “the location was the halfway of each of Bangabandhu’s governmental activities, including readying activities, exchanging views with leaders and activists, and listening to the grievances of the people”.

It is astatine the league array of this location that helium prepared the model of the historical March 7, 1971 code astatine Dhaka’s Ramna Race Course to much than a cardinal people, which is seen arsenic the informal declaration of independency from Pakistan.

“In the upstream days of 1971, section and overseas journalists had rushed to this house,” says the Museum website. “After the Liberation War, erstwhile Bangabandhu served arsenic the president of an autarkic Bangladesh, helium utilized his location arsenic a basal of operations to marque decisions connected moving the government,” it says.

From Mujib’s location to a depository to his memory

Dhanmondi 32 was turned into a depository connected August 14, 1994 astatine the inaugural of the Bangabandhu Memorial Trust.

Upon her instrumentality to Bangladesh from India successful 1981, Hasina visited her puerility home, and was soon served an auction announcement from the House Building Finance Cooperation of Bangladesh. According to the depository website, a sum of 12,000 taka was demanded from her, which she paid to prevention the location from being auctioned. She subsequently handed implicit the premises to the Bangabandhu Memorial Trust, and Mujib’s location became the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Memorial Museum.