Bangabandhu's Struggle
BNP-led govt destroyed BTV footages, says DG
The previous BNP-Jamaat alliance government had destroyed Bangladesh Television's (BTV) rare video footages on Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's long democratic struggle against the Pakistani dictatorial rulers.
“The footages contained some rare visual documentations of the 23-year struggle of Bangalees led by Bangabandhu that culminated in the war of liberation in 1971,” Director General of BTV Quazi Abu Zafar Siddiqui told the news agency in an interview.
He said after coming to power in 2001, the then government destroyed the documentaries.
The then BTV had recorded new footages on those tapes that preserves invaluable video footages of Bangabandhu, showing lame excuses of scarcity of tapes.
The video documentaries included the rare footage of six-point demand movement, upsurge of 1969, non-cooperation movement, Bangabandhu's 19-mininute 7th March historic speech, live footage of Bangabandhu's home coming event, election of 1970 and Bangabandhu's interview taken by journalist KG Mustafa in 1972.
The BTV chief, however, said the BNP-Jamaat alliance was not able to destroy 67 cassettes on Bangabandhu as those were preserved in a safer place.
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