Ready for Bangladesh 50th anniversary | East London Advertiser
“We take pride in the contributions made by the expatriate community during our independence," she added. "They welcomed our founding father Sheikh Mujib Rahman in the historic borough of Tower Hamlets.” Independence began with a brief but bloody war in 1971 when East Pakistan broke from West Pakistan under Sheikh Mujib. Support from abroad came from Britain’s 600,000 Bengali community, a-quarter being in Londons East End who make up half the population of Tower Hamlets. Fig...
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