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Article: Abdus Samad Azad, Bangladeshi independence hero
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- April 29, 2005
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DHAKA, Bangladesh -- Abdus Samad Azad, a former foreign minister
and Bangladeshi independence hero, has died. He was 83. About 10,000
mourners attended his funeral Thursday.
Mr. Azad died Wednesday at Dhaka's BIRDEM Hospital, where he was
admitted in February with an undisclosed ailment.
As a special envoy of the country's government-in-exile during its
nine-month independence war against Pakistan in 1971, Mr. Azad
traveled the world to mobilize international support for Bangladesh's
liberation.
Mr. Azad was a foreign ...