State Minister for Cultural Affairs KM Khalid Wednesday said August is the bloodiest month in world history. On August 15, Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most of his family members were assassinated in 1975. The 2004 grenade attack on August 21 killed 24 people and injured over 300 others, including the then opposition leader Sheikh Hasina. On August 6 and 9 in 1945, atomic bombs were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the US. Read: August 15: Remembering the Father of the Nation on Mourning Day These incidents made August the bloodiest month in history, Khalid said at the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy (BSA). He was speaking at the closing ceremony of the BSA's month-long programmes held under the title "Shok Theke Shoktir Ovvudoy, Shwapnopuron er Drirhoprottoy." A cultural event – featuring songs, dance and poetry recitations – took place after the discussion. The BSA raised the curtain on the month-long event on August 1. It featured exhibitions, seminar series and cultural segments.

August, the month when Bangladesh lost its founding father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1975, has begun. A group of disgruntled army officers killed Father of the Nation along with most of his family members on August 15, 1975.The 15 August carnage is the ugliest chapter of the nation’s history as the self-confessed killers not only assassinate the nation’s founding father alone but also many others.The 15 August carnage martyrs included Bangabandhu’s wife Bangamata Begum Fazilatunnesa Mujib, sons Sheikh Kamal, Sheikh Jamal and Sheikh Russell, daughters-in-law Sultana Kamal and Rosy Jamal, Bangabandhu’s brother Sheikh Naser, brother-in-law Abdur Rab Serniabad, nephew and eminent journalist Sheikh Fazlul Huq Moni, his pregnant wife Arzoo Moni and military secretary Colonel Jamil were killed on the fateful night of August 15, 1975. Read: BSA to organise month-long exhibition commemorating mournful AugustBangabandhu’s two daughters incumbent prime minister Sheikh Hasina and Sheikh Rehana escaped the assassination as they were in Germany.The month of August is also blackmarked with another conspiracy of assassination. The vested quarter, who assassinated Bangabandhu in 1975, also tried to kill Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina with grenades at an anti-terrorism rally at Bangabandhu Avenue on 21 August 2004.However, Sheikh Hasina narrowly escaped the attack suffering splinter injuries when 24 of her party men, including Awami League’s women affairs secretary Ivy Rahman, were killed and 500 others injured. Read: Chinese foreign minister to visit Bangladesh August 6-7: OfficialsThe nation cannot ever forget this heinous attack.Every year, the ruling Awami League and its associate bodies chalk out month-long programmes on the occasion. This year there will be no different.Like in the previous years, different political and socio-cultural organisations, including the ruling Awami League (AL) and its associate bodies have chalked out month-long programmes to observe the month of mourning.  

August, the month when Bangladesh lost its founding father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1975, began on Saturday.