.Thursday, April 1, 2010 ' 12:51 AM Y
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Last night was really stuffy at home.So my parents, aunt, cousin and me spent half the night on the rooftop. So we took a few newspaper spread it out on the rooftop floor and had a "midnight" picnic.. It was really bright, there was a full moon, i think...and the wind was blowing u cud see the clouds shifting in front of the full moon..and it was amazing...And the airport is really close to here so everytime a plane flies by, it looked as if a giant torchlight was flying across the sky above our heads...
And my dad started to tell us stories about the past...this happened arnd 1983-1984.Around the time my dad was taking his masters exam in Uni. In those days, there was political unrest in Bangladesh. And University students were very involved in the events of the political parties. It was the night before my dad's masters final exam. Talk about bad luck.It was the last exam of their student lives. And needless to say, they were very excited to go and find new jobs. The night before, there was a huge peaceful procession consisting of University students on the streets demanding democracy in the country. The police started to gather arnd the area. Even though none of the students were armed, they started to shoot and managed to kill the student leader of the procession. The next day, the University closed down indefinitely and all the exams were postponed...It reopened a mth later and the exams were to take place a mth after tht...
This time the night b4 my dad's final exams, there was some argument between an Uni student and a corrupt police officer targeting for bribes...what started as an argument soon turned into a brawl and all hell broke loose. More students and police officers joined in the fight. The police started using arms and tear gas. My dad says they were in the Uni hall when smne came to tell them of the brawl happening on the streets and they spent the entire night lugging dead and injured, battered and bloody bodies to the hospital...tht night all public transportation was free. No took any money, on account of saving the lives of the young students.
The Uni closed down yet again. The exam was then scheduled 3 mths later. The night b4 the exam,again, there were 300 students in the TV hall of the Uni, watching an evening TV series. This time the whole ceiling collapsed onto them. About 25 ppl died and about a 100 were injured. The whole night my dad and his frens dug out thru the rubble trying to find survivors and then transported them to the hospital.That night everyone in the Uni went ahead to donate their blood. So much so that the doctors had to turn away ppl, there was already an excess.
And this is how his exams were delayed for 7 mths.I'm soo glad such things don't happen to us.
Sam :)
