Vice-Chancellor of Dhaka University Professor Dr AAMS Arefin Siddique has expressed deep shock at the death Pulitzer Prize winner and internationally renowned journalist Sydney Schanberg.
In a condolence message on Monday, the DU VC said “Renowned US journalist Sydney Schanberg was a friend of Bangladesh. He presented the news of genocide by the Pakistani occupation forces in Bangladesh through his objective writings before the world.”
He was an eye-witness to the surrender of the Pakistani occupation forces at historical racecourse maidan in Dhaka on December 16 in 1971, said the VC.
The DU VC prayed for eternal peace of the departed soul of Sydney Schanberg and conveyed his sympathy to his bereaved family members.
The US journalist Schenberg, who won the most prestigious Pulitzer Prize for his covering report on Cambodian genocide in 1975, died at the age of 82 in Poughkeepsie, New York on July 9 after suffering heart attack.
He wrote a book -‘Dateline Bangladesh :Nineteen Seventy One’ with the incident of liberation war of Bangladesh which was published by ‘Sahitya Prokash’
Schanberg was born in Clinton, Massachusetts, as the son of a grocery store owner who went on to graduate from Harvard in 1955.
