Syndrome of denial or deification

I wanted to wait until after the remembrances of the national mourning day to write this, so as not to be insensitive to the genuine feelings of sadness and outrage that the mayhem of August 15, 1975 rightly engenders amongst many. Information minister Inu correctly asks that Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's legacy be freed from his partisan cage so that the entire nation can celebrate his life and ideals.
We besmirched history for two decades after 1975 by almost denying the very existence of the man but for whom there would possibly be no independence. We do no better, however, by deifying a great man whose flaws are evident to all but those with ideological blinders. Sheikh Mujib's legacy is secure in the Republic he created and we do his greatness no favour by whitewashing his strangulation of democracy with BAKSAL. The legacies of great men need neither denial nor deification.