Simon Dring

‘Despite threats, I stayed. The truth of what happened had to be told.’

There are not many moments in one’s life that are truly and deeply felt, and clearly remembered. For me, the night of Thursday, March 25, 1971 in Dhaka, is one of them—one of the most horrific and simultaneously most galvanising moments in my career as a journalist.

3y ago
March 25, 2021
March 25, 2021

‘Despite threats, I stayed. The truth of what happened had to be told.’

There are not many moments in one’s life that are truly and deeply felt, and clearly remembered. For me, the night of Thursday, March 25, 1971 in Dhaka, is one of them—one of the most horrific and simultaneously most galvanising moments in my career as a journalist.