Staff Reporter :
As the 228-year-old Dhaka Central Jail-now turned into museum has been opened for all for five days, people from all walks of life on Thursday thronged there by paying Tk 100 as entry fee.
The authorities opened the jail premises for commoners’ visit on Wednesday (November 2) for 5 days. It has been decorated with rare photographs of Bangabandhu, the four national leaders and some other political leaders for visitors.
It was an exceptional feeling to the visitors as they were able to move freely in and around the jail.
People usually land in the jail on charge of various crimes but this time they are visiting it without any tension.
People were seen passing busy times with taking photographs as well as making many of themselves as artificial inmates at different cells of the abandoned rooms of the jail.
The children and teen-aged people yesterday astonished to see the ‘gallows stages’
and the construction shapes during the British regime.
Some of the inmates, who had been languished in the jail, described the visitors about the lifestyle of prisoners.
A former dweller of Meghan-5, said, “I am also exited as I’m moving inside the jail premises without tension.”
Opening day’s exhibition titled ‘Songramy Jeebon Grangtha’ has been decorated with 75 photos of Bangabandhu and the four national leaders, collected by an organization named ‘Journey’.
The Bangabandhu Jail Memorial Museum was established encompassing the Dewani Cell where Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had been detained during the Pakistani regime.
The jail is historically significant as the four Liberation War heroes were brutally killed by some army officers inside it on November 3, 1975 after the assassination of Bangabandhu along with most of his family members on August 15 the same year. It is also where some of the top war criminals were imprisoned and hanged.
The Four National Leaders Memorial Museum – built in the memory of Syed Nazrul Islam, Tajuddin Ahmed, M Mansur Ali and AHM Qamruzzaman, all were assassinated on November 3, 1975 inside the jail – was built in a separate structure named ‘Mrityunjoy.’
Before shifting to Keranigonj, it had about 8,000 inmates, though it was built to accommodate just 2,600. Inmates lived in cramped, unsanitary conditions.
Deputy Jailer Ferdous Ahmed said people, who didn’t see inside the jail, are very curious to know about inside of that. Now they have got the chance to know where common prisoners stayed, which place was for VIP and where was gallows.
As the 228-year-old Dhaka Central Jail-now turned into museum has been opened for all for five days, people from all walks of life on Thursday thronged there by paying Tk 100 as entry fee.
The authorities opened the jail premises for commoners’ visit on Wednesday (November 2) for 5 days. It has been decorated with rare photographs of Bangabandhu, the four national leaders and some other political leaders for visitors.
It was an exceptional feeling to the visitors as they were able to move freely in and around the jail.
People usually land in the jail on charge of various crimes but this time they are visiting it without any tension.
People were seen passing busy times with taking photographs as well as making many of themselves as artificial inmates at different cells of the abandoned rooms of the jail.
The children and teen-aged people yesterday astonished to see the ‘gallows stages’
and the construction shapes during the British regime.
Some of the inmates, who had been languished in the jail, described the visitors about the lifestyle of prisoners.
A former dweller of Meghan-5, said, “I am also exited as I’m moving inside the jail premises without tension.”
Opening day’s exhibition titled ‘Songramy Jeebon Grangtha’ has been decorated with 75 photos of Bangabandhu and the four national leaders, collected by an organization named ‘Journey’.
The Bangabandhu Jail Memorial Museum was established encompassing the Dewani Cell where Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had been detained during the Pakistani regime.
The jail is historically significant as the four Liberation War heroes were brutally killed by some army officers inside it on November 3, 1975 after the assassination of Bangabandhu along with most of his family members on August 15 the same year. It is also where some of the top war criminals were imprisoned and hanged.
The Four National Leaders Memorial Museum – built in the memory of Syed Nazrul Islam, Tajuddin Ahmed, M Mansur Ali and AHM Qamruzzaman, all were assassinated on November 3, 1975 inside the jail – was built in a separate structure named ‘Mrityunjoy.’
Before shifting to Keranigonj, it had about 8,000 inmates, though it was built to accommodate just 2,600. Inmates lived in cramped, unsanitary conditions.
Deputy Jailer Ferdous Ahmed said people, who didn’t see inside the jail, are very curious to know about inside of that. Now they have got the chance to know where common prisoners stayed, which place was for VIP and where was gallows.
