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17 Mar, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Some facts on Sheikh Mujibur Rehman post 1971. Ramana Kalibari used to be a five century old temple in Dhaka.During 1971 Pakistani army committed mass atrocities in the temple, which included destruction of the temple, burning to death 50 cows in its cowshed, forcible conversion+
+ abduction of women & murder of men who took shelter in the temple + m. After Mujibur Rehman got power courtesy Indian army, he returned the land of the temple not to the original owners but to Bangladesh public works which removed the last vestiges of the temple from the land+
Hindus have now been granted permission to build the temple, not at the original site, but some distance away. Accounts here

tfipost.com/2017/09/durga-…

sanskritimagazine.com/history/destru…

swarajyamag.com/news-brief/whe…
This is quite apart from Muzibur Rehman’s role in the great Calcutta killings and Direct Action Day of 1946.

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