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Title
PARTITION: Tape 70
Writer
255MODEM
Mod Date & Time
255MODEM May 01 07:02
TAPE 70
Side A
Bacruddin UMAR - a Marxist-Leninist intellectual leading a small
grcuplet in B'desh; the son of Abul Hashim, the populist and
leftists general sect of Muslim League in Bengal province in 47;
an uncle of Nazes; came to Dhaka in 1950; aged 14 in 1946, and
present with father at Direct Action day rally; living in Burdwan
at time, but had house in Calcutta's Rippon St; - int'd at flat in
Dhaka - 22 April 1997
337 - [Dir Act day rally] 'we went to the Maidan by car, but
then the car cd not move further cos of the crowd ...
I nevr saw such a huge crowd, never in my life'
353 - 'before the mtg started there was a gt lot of agitation
and people were shouting all around that riots had
broken out in Raja Bazaar, in this area, and that area,
and ms are being slaughtered, and you're not doing
anything, they were shouting at the leaders, and others
were trying to elm them'
363 - 'Nazamuddin, he made quite a communal speech, he sd we
have to fight against the Hs, etc; but then on the
rostrum also, there was opposition against what he was
saying, so S'dy took over the mike and sd that our
struggle is against the british and not against the Hs,
and pointing to Fort Wm he sd, we have to fight against
that and not against the Hs'
371 - 'my father also spoke, and he also sd things like that,
but the sitn was such that the mtg cd not be continued
for long, and people were going up the ladder with guns
and all that, they sd we have seized these guns from
that area, we have seized this guns from that area, and
people are being killed by guns and knives, so some of
them started to shout that you stop this mtg and go to yr
offices and get the govt to do something about these
people who are killing Ms'
UNTIL HERE, VERY LOW LEVEL COS MIKE NOT PROPERLY IN
380 - 'the atmos was v charged.; there were people, but there
no was not very large, shouting that ... v loud shouts
were coming from some of the corwds that action must be
taken immediately'
385 - 'the marchers [to the Maidan] were no attacked; these
disturbances broke out locally, in various places, and
the Hs cd not be blamed for his, cos it happ'd on both |
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