Speakers at a rally of the Ganajagaran Mancha have expressed their conviction that the new generation will continue to resist anti-liberation forces.
The rally was organised on Friday at Shahbagh, in capital Dhaka, marking the Mancha’s first anniversary.
!971 war veterans, senior journalists, and human rights and cultural activists addressed the gathering.
Deputy Commander during Liberation War AK Khandker said the new generation would bring positive changes to the country.
“They want to make the country something to be proud of. I believe they can do it. No obstacle can stop them from achieving the target.”
Journalist Abed Khan said: “Bangladesh does not belong to a few intellectuals, politicians, and other people; it is a young generation’s Bangladesh.”
He said the Mancha embraces those who were in favour of democracy, the Liberation War and independence, and all those who hated the Jamaat-e-Islami and its student front Islami Chhatra Shibir.
“Ganajagaran Mancha has unmasked those who nurture an anti-Liberation War spirit.”
The three-day programme ended with the rally beginning at around 4:30pm and a cultural function in the evening.
However, Mancha spokesperson Imran H Sarker said the photo exhibition organised on the street from Shahbagh to TSC marking the anniversary would continue for seven more days.
He said he was confident that the Mancha could realise its six-point charter of demands.
Sammilita Sangskritik Jote President Nasir Uddin Yusuf Bachchu said the movement begun by the young generation would continue until all the Razakar, Al-Badr and Al-Shams members, who fought against Bangladesh’s independence, were tried, and the Jamaat and Shibir driven out.
International Crimes Tribunal prosecutor Turin Afroz, human rights activist Khushi Kabir and a Vice-President of Ekattorer Ghatok-Dalal Nirmul Committee Shyamali Nasrin Chowdhury also addressed the rally.
Source: Bd news24
Shahbagh was created by the ruling coalition and is totally politically motivated and no moral value. Most of the leaders were the recruits of the Indian Intelligence and played their part. History will record the facts when Bangladesh gets civilized.
In response to Shahadat Hossain’s statement, “History will recored facts when Bangladesh gets civilized”, I would like say instead, that history will reveal itself when Bangladesh gets liberated again!
Former Indian state Intelligence Bureau chief charged with murder -Ishrat Jahan-
India’s premier investigating agency charged former CBI chief with the murder of a 19-year old student.
http://www.worldbulletin.org. 06.02.14.India’s premier investigating agency, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Thursday charged former Gujarat Intelligence Bureau (IB) chief Rajinder Kumar with the murder of a 19-year old student. Ishrat Jahan, who worked as a salesgirl in Mumbai, and three men were killed on the outskirts of Ahmedabad city in June 2004 by Gujarat police officers. The police officers claimed they were told by the IB that the four were planning to assassinate Narendra Modi, Gujarat chief minister, and now the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) prime ministerial candidate for the May 2014 general election. The IB says that though its officers had alerted the Gujarat police that Jahan and three others could be affiliated to Pakistan-based group Lashkar-e-Taiba, its officers did not authorize or participate in the killing.The CBI charged Kumar with murder and three serving officers – P Mittal, MK Sinha and Rajiv Wankhede – with conspiracy and illegal confinement.
Amit Shah, the top aide to controversial prime ministerial candidate Modi, was interrogated by the CBI in the case’s early stages but has not been named in the 200-page chargesheet.The high-profile case has damaged the relationship between the prosecution agency CBI and IB, India’s internal security agency.Last year, IB hotly contested CBI’s questioning of Kumar, arguing that it would set a dangerous precedent and affect the morale of IB officials – who often work undercover.India’s federal home ministry has supported IB’s version and the law ministry refused to give permission to prosecute the IB officials.Despite the denial to prosecute, CBI has charged IB officials for murder and conspiracy.CBI has also charged Kumar under the Arms Act, alleging that he provided the weapons used by Gujarat police to kill Jahan and the three men and an AK-56 rifle that was planted at the scene of the shooting to frame the victims as terrorists.A judicial inquiry commission has labelled the alleged encounter “fake”.