Moulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani welcomed the change-over. Only months earlier, in March 1975, he had welcomed Bangabandhu to his home at Santosh, Tangail, and told him he was on the right path.
Moshtaque, who would go to prison in Zia’s times, died a few months before Sheikh Hasina led the Awami League back to power in 1996. Before his death, in a rambling interview with a weekly journal, he said he had had no hand in Bangabandhu’s killing and that he treated Sheikh Hasina and Sheikh Rehana as his own daughters.
Chashi died in mysterious circumstances in the deserts of Saudi Arabia.
Thakur went to prison over the jail killings of November 1975, was freed, and died sometime later in disgrace.
Osmany would contest the presidential election in June 1978 as a joint opposition candidate, lose to Zia and then form his Janata Party. He died in the early 1980s, in the Ershad period.
The stories could go on and on.
Thus have the chronicles of a dark era, tainted with blood and painted in the lurid colours of shame, come down to the country.
News Source: thedailystar.net
