Khaleda Zia's birthday
It appears from the media reports that Begum Zia had mentioned 5th Sept. and then 19th August as her birthday in her school and in her bio-data during elections in 1991 respectively. Obviously, none of these dates can be confused with the 15th August!
Sometimes people use to change their birthday in order to facilitate their entry into government service for which there is a fixed age limit, but in Begum Zia's case no such compulsion was there.
Now the valid question is what made a sensible person like her to change the birth date to 15th Aug. Is it to belittle the tragic day on which the father of the nation Sheikh Mujib and his family were most brutally killed? We cannot find any rational explanation of this quite irrational behaviour.
This appears to be a kind of endorsement of the heinous crimes committed on that very day! What a pity!
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