Mourning August. In this month, on 15 August 1975, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the greatest Bengali of the millennium, the architect of independence, the father of the nation, was brutally murdered by some crippled, uncivilized and coward military people of the nation. Opponents of independence were in direct support of this.
On that night of '75, the assassinators not only killed Bangabandhu, but also Bangabandhu's wife Bangamata Begum Fazilatunnesa Mujib, Bangabandhu's children Sheikh Kamal, Sheikh Jamal, minor Sheikh Russell and daughter-in-law Sultana Kamal and Rosie Jamal.
Bangabandhu's brother Sheikh Nasser, brother-in-law Abdur Rob Serniabat, nephew youth leader and journalist Sheikh Fazlul Haque Moni, his wife Arju Moni and 17 family members and relatives including Colonel Jamil could not escape from this heinous murder.
Today's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Sheikh Rehana, the daughter of Bangabandhu, survived that day.
But the killers did not back down. In the same vein, on 21 August 2004, an attempt was made to assassinate Awami League President and current Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, the daughter of the Father of the Nation. Fortunately, she survived the day, but the former president Zillur Rahman's wife and Awami League women's affairs secretary Ivy Rahman were among 24 people killed and more than 500 leaders and activists injured.
But sadly, the path to justice for this murder was blocked. All subsequent rulers maintained it. After Sheikh Hasina, the daughter of the father of the nation, came to power in 1996, she repealed the infamous Immunity Bill.
The nation has been freed from stigma by implementing the verdict of Bangabandhu's murderers. In the same way, the slander of the suicidal character of Bengalis has also come to an end.
In mourning August, the Awami League and its allies, various social, cultural and political organizations will observe the National Mourning Day through various programmes in an atmosphere of due dignity, respect, love and solemnity.
As always, the Awami League has united with the mourning Bengali nation and has taken various programmes centrally on the occasion of observing the National Mourning Day on 15 August with due dignity. The party has called upon the leaders and activists of the Awami League at all levels and all its allies, social, cultural and political organizations to carry out a detailed programmes.