Events
A night before the historical incident of February 21, Jabbar came to Dhaka to get his mother-in-law, a cancer patient, admitted into the Dhaka Medical College. On February 21, the huge procession and agitation of the students for the language movement made Jabbar interested to join them. Thus he participated in one of the rallies in which police opened fire. Abdul Jabbar was severely hurt by a bullet and was later admitted into Dhaka Medical College. He fought with death for a day and died in the following night.
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“Most events recorded in history are more remarkable than important, like eclipses of the sun and moon, by which all are attracted, but whose effects no one takes the trouble to calculate.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“By many a legendary tale of violence and wrong, as well as by events which have passed before their eyes, these people have been taught to look upon white men with abhorrence.... I can sympathize with the spirit which prompts the Typee warrior to guard all the passes to his valley with the point of his levelled spear, and, standing upon the beach, with his back turned upon his green home, to hold at bay the intruding European.”
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