A strange repeat of history: Controversial grandfather on August 15, and scandalous granddaughter on August 5

Hakikul Islam Khokon

After the death of recently late content creator Kareena, there is intense analysis on social media about the role of her grandfather Colonel Hamid at 75 and the activities of her granddaughter at 24. Recently, the untimely death of young content creator and actress Kareena Kaiser while undergoing treatment in Chennai, India cast a shadow of mourning in a corner of the country, but also gave birth to a deep historical review. After his departure at the age of 31, conscious people and netizens have started matching a strange equation of history. Kareena’s grandfather was the station commander of Dhaka Cantonment during the Bangabandhu assassination on August 15, 1975. Colonel (Retd.) MA Hamid. Analysts are finding a surprising and scandalous similarity between the controversial role of grandfather at the age of seventy-five and the activities of granddaughter Kareena on August 5, 2024. Khabar Ibn News.

How a family can appear in the pages of history as controversial in two different eras, at two extreme transition points in the country, is now under intense discussion.

Grandfather and Granddaughter Historic Match: August 15 and August 5

Historians and current generation analysts have pointed out two clear historical parallels between the activities of grandfather and granddaughter:

Inspection of slaughterhouses vs looting of public buildings:

Colonel Hamid was the Station Commander of Dhaka Cantonment when the assassins killed Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman with his family in the early hours of August 15, 1975. As a military officer, his duty was to suppress the rebellion. But he did not do so, but instead entered No. 32 of Dhanmondi as one of the first senior officers. There, instead of stopping the murderous majors, he visited Bangabandhu’s blood-stained frozen body under their guard.

Cheers at Ganabhaban:

Exactly 49 years later, on August 5, 2024, granddaughter Kareena Kaiser and her family (including father Kaiser Hamid) entered the Ganabhaban soon after Sheikh Hasina left the country. According to the viral video on social media and the claims of critics, during that day’s extreme anarchy, they took laptops from Ganobhaban,He cheered with a smile on his face with various useful items including vanity bags. Granddaughter, like grandfather, was present on the scene in a day of utter disaster to the state, but this time not as a passive spectator, but in exultation of plunder.

New energy beneficiaries and power shifts

Immediately after Bangabandhu was killed on August 15, 1975, Station Commander Colonel Hamid bypassed the then Chief of Army Staff General KM Shafiullah and went directly to the Deputy Chief of Staff Ziaur Rahman and confirmed the news to him. According to historians, he provided support to the coup d’état and the new power, anticipating who was coming to the center in the transition of power.

On the other hand, critics allege that granddaughter Kareena also acted as a foreign ‘deep state’ or ‘soft agent’ of new powers as a social media influencer in the August 5, 2024 coup. These content creators were one of the catalysts for the destabilization created in the country by exploiting the passions of the young generation. After the change of power, they presented themselves as the beneficiaries of that victory.

Disillusioned people regret

Kareena’s death comes at a time when many ordinary students and working people who participated in the movement that day are deeply disillusioned. The videos of famous faces like Kareena looting the Ganabhaban on August 5 made ordinary students extremely embarrassed at the time. Today, many are realizing that there was no ideological revolution that day, rather a well-planned foreign agenda was implemented to remove the patriotic and uncompromising statesman Sheikh Hasina.

Dhaka University student Rakibul Hasan said, “Influencers like Kareena played with our emotions at that time. Today I understand how useful Sheikh Hasina was for the country’s stability.”

In history

Death is always painful. Many are praying for Kareena Kaiser’s untimely death. But when a person becomes a part of history, his actions are judged by history according to its own rules.

On August 15, 1975, due to his irresponsibility and implicit support to the murderers, Dada Colonel Hamid was forever marked as an opportunistic character in the pages of history.Similarly, on August 5, 2024, granddaughter Kareena also witnessed a scandalous chapter due to the desecration of state property and the looting of public buildings. This brutal repetition of history proves that—though times have changed,The opportunistic character and controversial role of some people remain unchanged.