Word: mujibur
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bengalis held in Pakistan: "They get newspapers, they get the radio, they get books, and they get allowances. But I am sorry to say that they have been segregated. I use the word sorry sincerely. I didn't like to do it, but [Bangladesh Prime Minister] Mujibur Rahman's chauvinistic policies drove me to this painful decision...
Last month India and Bangladesh proposed a new settlement calling for simultaneous repatriation of the P.O.W.s, the Biharis and the Bengalis. To sweeten the offer, Bangladesh's Prime Minister, Sheik Mujibur Rahman, dropped his insistence that Pakistan formally recognize his country prior to negotiations. Dacca also scaled down the number of Pakistani soldiers it wants to try for atrocities committed during the war from 2,500 to less than...
...undoubtedly clear that Bangladesh has established itself as a sovereign state free of any connections with the Pakistani government. The overwhelming victory that Prime Minister Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his Awami League party won in March at the polls has given them a clear mandate in the Bengali government and in negotiations concerning POW return...
...weeks ago, a special envoy from India arrived in Dacca, the capital of Bangladesh, to discuss the POW issue with Sheikh Mujibur. The New Delhi Statesman reported that the envoy was "seeking to end the stalemate in the POW issue," adding that he would have to go Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, after concluding his talks with Sheikh Mujibur...
Standing on a platform draped with white cloth to look like a boat-the campaign symbol of the Awami League -Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheik Mujibur Rahman delivered his last campaign speech at the little village of Dirai north of Dacca. The village is accessible only by boat or on foot (or, in the Prime Minister's case, by helicopter), but by the time Mujib arrived, 20,000 people had crowded in from as far as 25 miles away to hear the man they call Bangabandhu (Friend of Bengal...