46 years later, the news of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s assassination still feels shocking
In 1971, I had the privilege and responsibility of administering Oxfam’s relief program for about 600,000 of the 10 million refugees who had fled from Bangladesh to India and were staying in many of the over 900 refugee camps in the border area of India and Bangladesh.
After the return to Bangladesh of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on January 10 1972, I made plans to bring one of Oxfams’s Land Rovers, laden with urgently needed medical supplies, to Dhaka from Calcutta. On January 20, I set off from Calcutta. We travelled very slowly, as there were so many people walking back from West Bengal to their homes in Bangladesh.
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