News from Dhaka just in this week: OPENQUOTE Bangladeshi authorities have stepped up security in the capital ahead of a court verdict expected this week over the murder of the country's founding president more than three decades ago. CLOSEQUOTE
Some of our generation would recall the tragic events that lead to the creation of Bangladesh, and the assassination of Mujib. Interesting, a Goan-origin person, the then Pakistan-based journalist Anthony Mascarenhas, was considered as the hero of reporting on Bangladesh. For instance, http://www.naderlibrary.com/lit.trialhenrykiss.4.htm describes Mascarenhas as "the journalistic hero of the Bangladesh war". It also points out that the Bangladesh genocide of 1971 was first broken by Mascarenhas: "Other reports, since amply vindicated, were supplied to the London Times and Sunday Times by the courageous reporter Anthony Mascarhenas, and flashed around a horrified world." While travelling through Dhaka in the past, I ran into one of Mascarenhas' books and picked it up eagerly. His was a gripping account of what happpened on those very streets a generation ago. But while I didn't put the book down till reaching back home, what was hard to believe was that half a dozen Majors would undertake the job of assassinating their president on their own. I guess it could remain a "Who killed JFK" kind of controversy for our part of the globe, viz. South Asia. Interested in hearing other points of view on this. FN -- Frederick Noronha :: +91-832-2409490 ANOTHER GOA: http://openlibrary.org/b/OL23851672M/Another_Goa
