General Ziaur Rahman spent the last day of his life in Chittagong trying to clean the political dirt that his party had kicked up in that city. As Deputy Commissioner of Chittagong, I had the misfortune to watch his final day in Chittagong, and experience personally the trauma of a mayhem that began with his assassination, and ended with the killing of Maj. Gen. Manzoor, the alleged leader of the assassins. The events were particularly more agonising for me as I had come to know the two victims personally since the formative days of Bangladesh, and had the opportunity of knowing them more through work.