Torching Bangabandhu Museum 'dark chapter' in Bangladesh’s history

The arson attack on Bangabandhu Memorial Museum at Road No. 32 in Dhanmondi will remain a dark chapter in the history of Bangladesh, and those perpetrators will be punished some day, said Bangabir Kader Siddique, reports bdnews24.com.

After Sheikh Hasina resigned as prime minister and left the country, attackers destroyed some statues of the nation's founding father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and then attacked the museum. They looted it and set it on fire.

Every room in the house where the independence architect lived was burnt.

The mural of Bangabandhu at the front of the museum where people used to pay their tribute was also torched.

Kader, a veteran freedom fighter and politician, visited the museum on Wednesday, two days after it was attacked.

"This has been a revolution in the country. I congratulate the students on their successful movement. Bangabandhu and Sheikh Hasina are never the same. Bangabandhu is the Father of the Nation. He is the greatest hero of our independence," he told the media.

"I should have died before watching the way they destroyed and burned the house at Road 32. Of course, the Awami League did many wrongs. But Sheikh Mujib didn't do anything.