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45 years since Zia's assassination: The blood-stained dawn at Circuit House and an unfinished history

Forty-five years ago, at dawn on 30 May 1981, the silence of the Chattogram Circuit House was shattered by bursts of machine-gun fire. President and BNP founder Ziaur Rahman was staying there at the time. He had arrived in Chattogram the previous day to help resolve internal disputes within his party. Before daybreak, that visit had turned into one of the bloodiest chapters in Bangladesh's political history. At the time, the Deputy Commissioner (DC) of Chattogram was Ziauddin M Chowdhury. His...

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45 years since Zia's assassination: The blood-stained dawn at Circuit House and an unfinished history Forty-five years ago, at dawn on 30 May 1981, the silence of the Chattogram Circuit House was shattered by bursts of machine-gun fire. President and BNP founder Ziaur Rahman was staying there at the time. He had arrived in Chattogram the previous day to help resolve internal disputes within his party. Before daybreak, that visit had turned into one of the bloodiest chapters in Bangladesh's political history. At the time, the Deputy Commissioner (DC) of Chattogram was Ziauddin M Chowdhury. His re Source: Prothom Alo English https://en.prothomalo.com/bangladesh/politics/d1d78cvh0f

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