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Rehana's Shirt
Abdus Salam held onto his baby daughter’s shirt for 24 years. It belonged to his four month old baby girl, Rehana, who was crushed to death by a Pakistani Jawan’s boot in April 1971. At the time of her death, she was wearing this shirt. Her crime: she was the daughter of a freedom fighter.
Abdus Salam Khan, her father, was commander of a group of Freedom Fighters in Digholia, Khulna (Sector-9). Salam had joined the Liberation War at the beginning, inducted as a war instructor. The Pakistan Army and their collaborators put a price of Tk. 100,000.00 on his head.
But he had to pay a higher price - his first born baby girl, Rehana, fell prey to the brutal Pakistan Army - a story repeated for millions of other women and children, whose husbands or fathers were off fighting for liberation.
The t-shirt is displayed in the Museum; a mute reminder of the suffering of children during war.
