Missing wartime Betar documents remains mystery
Thursday, 12 January 2012
The mystery over disappearance of three trunks of documents of Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra could not yet be resolved, reports BSS.
No probe body was formed to unearth how and to whom those documents did go, people concerned said.
The trunks were found in the storeroom of Transcription Service at Shahbagh in the city in 1991, 20 years after the country's independence.
It was decided that the documents would be given to the National Museum after conducting a probe by a committee. But the documents could not be found later.
The trunks containing liberation war documents were brought from the Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra. A report by Monajat Uddin on these trunks was published in daily Sangbad on December 14 in 1991.
One of the founders of Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra, poet Belal Mohammad said that he had supervised the loading of the documents in trunks in Mujibnagar. He was accompanied by his colleague Sazzad at that time.
The document-loaded trunks reached Narayanganj via Hugli by SS Sandra Streamer. Then those were taken to Shahbagh radio station.
There were files, papers, documents, duty rosters and scripts of Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra in the trunks.
Maloy Gangulee said one of the trunks was opened in 1991, but the documents were again kept in the trunk and was sealed.
A committee was formed with the then Transcription Service Director Hassan Jamal as its chief to hand over the trunks to the National Museum.
The former director said that he was transferred to Agargaon radio station and therefore, did not know anything about the fate of the trunks.
Hassan Jamal claimed that the trunks were handed over to the National Museum. But he could not say when and under whose supervision those were given to the museum.
No probe body was formed to unearth how and to whom those documents did go, people concerned said.
The trunks were found in the storeroom of Transcription Service at Shahbagh in the city in 1991, 20 years after the country's independence.
It was decided that the documents would be given to the National Museum after conducting a probe by a committee. But the documents could not be found later.
The trunks containing liberation war documents were brought from the Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra. A report by Monajat Uddin on these trunks was published in daily Sangbad on December 14 in 1991.
One of the founders of Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra, poet Belal Mohammad said that he had supervised the loading of the documents in trunks in Mujibnagar. He was accompanied by his colleague Sazzad at that time.
The document-loaded trunks reached Narayanganj via Hugli by SS Sandra Streamer. Then those were taken to Shahbagh radio station.
There were files, papers, documents, duty rosters and scripts of Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra in the trunks.
Maloy Gangulee said one of the trunks was opened in 1991, but the documents were again kept in the trunk and was sealed.
A committee was formed with the then Transcription Service Director Hassan Jamal as its chief to hand over the trunks to the National Museum.
The former director said that he was transferred to Agargaon radio station and therefore, did not know anything about the fate of the trunks.
Hassan Jamal claimed that the trunks were handed over to the National Museum. But he could not say when and under whose supervision those were given to the museum.