Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman" in English language version.
এ সম্পর্কে আমি আরও কিছু বলব। ১৯৭৫ সালে এক মুক্তিযোদ্ধা আমার সঙ্গে দেখা করতে এসেছিলেন। কথায় কথায় ওই মুক্তিযোদ্ধা আমাকে বললেন, স্যার, বঙ্গবন্ধু বলতেন, টাকা খরচ করো না, ফুলের মালা দিয়ে বিয়ে করো। অথচ তিনি নিজে তার ছেলেদের বিয়ে দিচ্ছেন সোনার মুকুট পরিয়ে এবং সেটা টিভিতে দেখানো হচ্ছে। এই যে দুই রকমের মান ও কথার অসংগতি--এটা তো মানুষ গ্রহণ করবে না।' তারপর আমার এক বন্ধু, তার নাম বলব না, যিনি শেখ সাহেবের বেশ ঘনিষ্ঠ ছিলেন, তিনি যখন-তখন শেখ সাহেবের বাড়িতে যেতে পারতেন এবং তার সঙ্গে দেখা করতে পারতেন, তিনি তেল কোম্পানিতে কাজ করতেন, স্বাধীনতার পর শোনা গিয়েছিল শেখ কামাল ব্যাংক লুট করতে গিয়ে গুলি খেয়ে হাসপাতালে ছিলেন, ওই ভদ্রলোক বললেন, "আমি তারপর বঙ্গবন্ধুর বাড়িতে গেছি, তখন দুপুর, শেখ মুজিব ও তার পরিবারের অন্য সদস্যরা খাবারঘরে খাচ্ছেন। আমি যেতেই শুনলাম, শেখ সাহেব বলছেন, 'তোদের যখন লোক ধরে মারতে আরম্ভ রবে, তখন আমি যে কী করব! আমি জানি না'।" এ কথা থেকে সহজেই অনুমেয় নেতৃত্বের মধ্যেই গলদ ছিল।
One day during a combing operation in Tongi area north of Dhaka Major Nasser who was commanding another squadron of the Bengal Lancers, arrested three small-time thugs. In the course of the interrogation one of the men broke down and told the army officers a story about a particularly gruesome triple murder which had rocked Tongi the previous winter. It transpired that a newly married couple travelling to their home in a taxi had been waylaid on the outskirts of town. The bridegroom and the taxi driver were hacked to death and their bodies thrown in the river. The bride, who was carried off to an isolated cottage, was repeatedly raped by her abductors. Three days later her mutilated body was found on the road near a bridge.Confessing to his part in the crime, the thug told the army men the police investigation was called off when they found out that the ring-leader of the gang was his boss, Muzamil, chairman of the Tongi Awami League. According to Farook, the confession so infuriated the interrogating officer, a boyish lieutenant named Ishtiaque who had since resigned and left the country, that "he started kicking the chap so hard that he died of internal injuries". Muzamil himself was taken by Major Nasser to Dhaka for prosecution after he confirmed from police records that the thug had been telling the truth. According to Farook, Muzamil offered Nasser 300,000 Takkas for his release. "Don't make it a public affair", the Awami Leaguer advised him. "You will anyway have to let me go, either today or tomorrow. So why not take the money and forget about it?" Nasser, who was affronted by this blatant attempt to bribe him, swore he would bring Muzamil to trial and make him hang for his crime. He handed him over to the civil authorities. Farook said they were all astonished a few days later to find that Muzamil had been released on Shiekh Mujib's intervention. "I told you to take the money", Muzamil crowed. "You would have been the gainers. Now I have been released anyway and you get nothing."The incident shattered Farook and his colleagues. Tongi marked the turning point for them. "It seemed as if we were living in a society headed by a criminal organization. It was as if the Mafia had taken over Bangladesh. We were totally disillusioned. Here was the head of government abetting murder and other extreme things from which he was supposed to protect us. This was not acceptable. We decided he must go". "...when hope is extinguished, accountability denied and the people have nothing further to lose, they turn to violence to redress their wrongs".
