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President Ziaur Rahman did not allow me to enter our Dhanmondi-32 Residence: Sheikh Hasina

President Ziaur Rahman did not allow me to enter our Dhanmondi-32 Residence: Sheikh Hasina Tears rolled down her cheeks and emotion gripped the audience as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina narrated the massacre at Dhanmondi-32 and unkind behaviour of a government after the assassination of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on August 15, 1975. "When I came back in 1981 from exile, the then government of president Ziaur Rahman did not allow me to enter our Dhanmondi-32 residence where my father along with most of my family members were brutally killed," she said.  Speaking at a prize giving ceremony at Osmani Memorial Auditorium yesterday morning, she said even General Zia did not allow her to organise a milad mahfil seeking eternal peace of the martyrs of August 15 inside the residence. "It was Zia who forced us to hold milad on the road for my parents and others who were killed in the August 15 massacre," said Hasina. Sheikh Hasina, the eldest daughter of Bangabandhu, w...