Mujib killing day today
Today is 15 August. On this day in 1975, the nation's independence leader and first president, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, was assassinated along with most of his family members by a group of military men at his house in Dhaka's Dhanmondi-32.
Eighteen members of Mujib's family, including his wife Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib, three sons Captain Sheikh Kamal, Lieutenant Sheikh Jamal and 10-year-old Sheikh Russel, two daughters-in-law Sultana Kamal and Rosy Jamal, brother Sheikh Naser, brother-in-law Abdur Rab Serniabat, and niece Sheikh Fazlul Haque Moni and his wife Arzu Moni, were killed on the day.
His two daughters – Sheikh Hasina, now the ousted prime minister, and Sheikh Rehana – survived the massacre as they were abroad at that time.
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After assuming power in 1996, then prime minister Sheikh Hasina, the eldest daughter of Sheikh Mujib, made 15 August National Mourning Day.
When the BNP came to power in 2001, it reversed the decision. In 2008, the then-interim government reintroduced the holiday.
The interim government of Muhammad Yunus cancelled the holiday soon after assuming power in August 2024 as a result of a mass uprising that ousted the Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League government.
In May this year, the Yunus government decided to ban all activities of the Awami League.
Earlier in February, in protest against an announcement that ousted PM Hasina would deliver a speech online, a group of protesters swooped in and demolished Mujib's residence at Dhanmondi.
