Ankita had a Doomsday experience when she was in high school. On August 21, 2004, she was studying for examination round the corner. A series of deafening explosions rocked her house and sent the family in a tizzy.
As they switched on the television, Ankita’s family were shell-shocked with what they saw — dozens dead and hundreds injured writhing in pain, blood all over, police vans and ambulances frantically rushing lifeless bodies to hospitals.
The grenades had exploded barely 400 metres from Ankita’s house, the then Opposition Leader and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina had miraculously escaped a 1975 style elimination plot but many of her unlucky party loyalists lay dead or bleeding.
History’s merciless repeat in Bangladesh had shaken the party that led the country’s Liberation War but left its top leader intact.বিস্তারিত