BANGLADESH/INDIA: ASSASSINATED PRESIDENT ZIAUR RAHMAN BURIED AFTER STATE FUNERAL/CONDOLENCE BOOK SIGNED BY GANDHI IN NEW DELHI.

Record ID: 1046225

  • Title: BANGLADESH/INDIA: ASSASSINATED PRESIDENT ZIAUR RAHMAN BURIED AFTER STATE FUNERAL/CONDOLENCE BOOK SIGNED BY GANDHI IN NEW DELHI.
  • Date: 2nd June 1981
  • Summary: 1. GV Flag at halfmast PULL BACK TO crowds. (2 SHOTS) 0.11 2. SV Crowd surround coffin of assassinated President Ziaur Rahman. 0.18 3. SV & GV Coffin being carried past mourning crowds and picture of former President as crowd pray. (3 SHOTS) 0.29 4. GV Coffin carried through massed crowds and procession to graveside headed by military guard. (3 SHOTS) 0.38 5. GV Procession arriving at new Parliament building. 0.42 6. GV Grave being prepared and coffin laid. (5 SHOTS) 1.05 7. GV Street in Chittagong and artillery piece. 1.12 8. GV Chittagong Harbour area with gunboats moored. 1.20 9. GV PAN FROM Crowds in street TO flag at halfmast. 1.28 10. GV House where former president was killed. (2 SHOTS) 1.33 11. GV Bangladesh High Commission in New Delhi. 1.41 12. SV Portrait of Zia. 1.46 13. GV United Arab Emirates Ambassador signing condolence book 1.54 14. SV PAN High Commission staff standing. 2.00 15. GV Book signed. 2.05 16. GV Chinese Ambassador signing condolence book. 2.11 17. GV Indian Prime Minister Mrs Gandhi sits in chair and signs book. 2.29 SPEECH ON FILM (TRANSCRIPT) BIDDULPH: "Throughout the morning, what seemed like a never-ending line of mourners paid their respects at the coffin of Ziaur Rahman, Bangladesh's first popularly elected President. There was heavy military security. As noon approached, the coffin was taken through the streets for burial. All offices were shut and it seemed as though the entire population of the Dacca area had come to pray and give tribute. "En route, there was a pause for a Moslem ceremony. Then the procession made its way towards the grave site, hastily prepared near the new unfinished Parliament building which President Ziaur Rahman had hoped to inaugurate. And as Bangladesh gathered to bury its president, there was official confirmation that the man responsible for his death, Major General Manzur, who led the brief Chittagong attempt at the coup d'etat, was also dead. The government television station said he had been captured last night at a village, but was killed by angry troops while being taken to Chittagong." Initials js FUNERAL ONLY REPORTER: JIM BIDDULPH PART TELERECORDING Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 16th June 1981 13:00
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  • Location: DACCA & CHITTAGONG, BANGLADESH/NEW DELHI, INDIA
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  • Country: Bangladesh India
  • Reuters ID: LVA1YPISEW73J6MMDYWR43FLYFJD
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