48 citizens condemn mocking of Liberation War, national anthem

Forty-eight famous voters hang condemned that, following the overthrow of the Hasina regime within the student-led uprising, a community has been busy mocking the Liberation War and the national anthem.

“We present with deep dispute and madden that a communal community motivated by ulterior political motives has launched a campaign designed to expose an audacity to query the 1971 Liberation War and even the national anthem,” reads a joint press statement of the voters.

Issued by Shamsul Huda, govt director of the Association for Land Reform and Trend, the statement modified into as soon as signed by Emeritus Professor Serajul Islam Choudhury, human rights activist Sultana Kamal, social activist Khushi Kabir, Professor Anu Mohammad, educationist Rasheda K Chowdhury, senior attorney ZI Khan Panna, TIB Govt Director Iftekharuzzaman, senior attorney Subrata Chowdhury, and famous photographer Shahidul Alam.

They acknowledged everyone may perhaps perhaps perhaps hang to have in mind that in 1971, lakhs of voters from all walks of lifestyles, including early life, college students, farmers, employees, and the militia, sacrificed their lives in a nine-month fight to free Bangladesh.

“This history has been remembered by generations and can proceed to be. No person has the splendid to query other folks to put out of your mind or diminish it,” acknowledged the statement, relating to remarks by Jamaat-e-Islami chief Shafiqur Rahman.

Factual about a days within the past, the Jamaat ameer steered the nation to put out of your mind all the pieces from the previous, acknowledged the voters, including it can perhaps perhaps even be assumed that by “the previous,” he means the history of the Liberation War and his celebration’s role at that time.

By singing the national anthem “Amar Sonar Bangla,” freedom combatants took an oath to fight, and many sacrificed their lives or hang been physically crippled. The anthem modified into as soon as a constant supply of motivation for endless combatants, acknowledged the statement.

“Thus, the anthem modified into as soon as re-established as the anthem of our lives through the blood of lakhs of martyrs. Questioning it means questioning the Liberation War. The opposite folks of this country, no subject celebration affiliation, will now now not get it,” it added.

Responding to extinct brigadier widespread Abdullahil Amaan Azmi’s quiz for adjustments to the constitution and the national anthem in a statement made for the length of a press conference on 3 September, the signatories to the statement acknowledged, “We strongly condemn and mumble his focused, communal, and arrogant remarks.”

Dipayan Khisha, a human rights activist and one in all the signatories, steered The Alternate Customary, “Bangladesh’s Liberation War and the national anthem are settled matters. If anyone tries to query these, the opposite folks of the country will rise and mumble.”