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The 1974 Ramna Massacre took place on March 17 of 1974 in front of the residence of the Home Minister which is located at the Ramna of the capital Dhaka when a group of Jasad supporters, mostly students, tried to block the roads around the residence of the minister in protest to the corruption, nepotism and the brutality of Jatiya Rakkhi Bahini and Lal Bahini. The incident claimed at least fifty lives when the Jatiya Rakkhi Bahini was called on and eventually opened fire targeting the protesters.〔Ahmad, Mahiuddin, ''জাসদের উত্থান ও পতনঃ অস্থির সময়ের রাজনীতি'', First published 2015, p. 111, Prothoma Prakashani, Dhaka.〕 This incident is considered as a turning point for the radical politics and socialist movement in the history of Bangladesh. The massacre was followed by Jatiya Rakkhi Bahini excesses to hunt down the supporters of socialist movement in Bangladesh, particularly the members of Jasad. This incident compelled the members of Jasad to go underground and escalate arms struggle against the state to defend themselves until the fall of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. == Background == After Bangladesh won its independence through the great liberation war of 1971, an ideological conflict was raised on the question of how Bangladesh will be governed. When Awami League leadership opted for democracy as its first choice, a large section of Awami League's students front Bangladesh Students League led by A. S. M. Abdur Rab and Shahjahan Shiraj expressed their dissent with the idea. This section, mostly the followers of former General Secretary of the front Sirajul Alam Khan, formed a new political party opposing the Awami League's view and to establish a form of socialism what they called Scientific Socialism. Soon after the formation of Jasad, the Jasad-fueled protests were met with Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's Jatiya Rakkhi Bahini personnel who were accused of conducting raids in the opposition politicians houses, extensive torture, murders and abductions of the political activist from rival camps. The country was also experiencing rampant corruption and smuggling of relief goods through the border to India with the blessing of Awami League top leadership that were pushing the nation towards a famine that eventually claimed millions of lives in 1974. Jasad decided to protest these misappropriation of relief goods, rampant corruption and law enforcers' excesses on March 17 of 1974. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1974 Ramna massacre」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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