The Awami League (AL) government tortured and oppressed students and folks at some level of the nation by branding them as contributors of Chhatra Shibir and Jamaat, Adviser Asif Nazrul stated this day (14 December).
“Staunch by the closing 15 years’ regime of the Awami League, led by fascist Sheikh Hasina, no one might maybe communicate in favour of Jamaat-Shibir or against the torture,” he stated whereas speaking at a discussion at the auditorium of Bangladesh Nationwide Museum in Shahbagh.
The ‘Bongio Shahitto Sobhaa’, a cultural platform, organised the discussion on Asif Nazrul’s novel titled ‘Ami Abu Bokor’ centering the July-August mass rebellion.
Asif Nazrul stated he grew to become pissed off facing difficulties in publishing his writings in newspapers against the Awami League government in the unique past.
In a democratic nation like Bangladesh, he stated he confronted difficulties due to of expressing diversified opinions.
“Many dear and approach ones left me, maintained distance with me after I asked in which law folks might fair be beaten on the suspicion of being a Shibir member,” he stated, criticising the fascist government’s train of suppressing folks’s freedom of speech.
“I knew three matters cannot be discussed. First one is the guideline [of the country] and the second one is Hasina-India. I’m not pointing out the third one now,” he stated.
Bringing up that he had been staying on the college campus for 35 years, Asif stated students had been tagged as Jamaat-Shibir intentionally, and no teacher ever defended them.
“I had to communicate about all matters with caution in talk-shows…I had to face many instances, financial disaster and even social boycotting apt for not speaking in favour of the government,” Asif stated.
“Sheikh Hasina ruined the long-established family members among the many of us of the nation,” he added.
“When belief to be one of my close pals in the college grew to turn correct into a excessive government respectable in the nation, he didn’t invite me to his daughter’s bridal ceremony.”
“Nonetheless, he invited belief to be one of our classmates as that particular person was a Chhatra League chief with whom he [classmate] had no close friendship,” he added.
Paying a tribute to the martyrs and injured of the July-August Mass Uprising, he stated they brought support a novel boundless freedom for the nation.
He expressed hope to manufacture a ‘mighty greater’ Bangladesh in the times to return, pronouncing, “If we fail to manufacture a Bangladesh mighty greater than the regime of Awami League, the sacrifices and contributions of the mass rebellion will ride in ineffective.”
