At 2:15 am on March 26 in 1971, Shaheed President Ziaur Rahman revolted against Pakistani military junta, mobilising Bengali troops under his command at the port city of Chattogram.
March 26, 1971 is the Bangladesh’s Independence Day, while in a reflective article Zia later described the day that “etched in the Bangalee’s heart in blood letters”.
Ziaur Rahman, a major in Pakistan army, revolted against Pakistani military junta at that very hour from the battalion of 8 East Bengal Regiment where he was posted as the second in command.
Coinciding with the first anniversary of the country’s independence on March 26, 1972 he got an article titled “Birth of a Nation” published in now defunct the Dainik Bangla, when he was the deputy army chief having the elevated rank of major general as a senior 1971 veteran.
Weekly Bicitra, a sister concern of the same newspaper, reprinted the piece on the same day in 1974.
