BSS, Rajshahi :
Freedom fighters , members of the martyred family and civil society at a discussion held here on Mon day made a clarion call for conservation of the mass grave site at Babla Bon in the city’s Shrirampur area.
They urged concerned authorities to come forward to this end as the grave site has remained neglected for years for lack of proper demarcation of the site.
Jononeta Ataur Rahman Smrity Parishad and Rajshahi Press Club jointly organized the discussion held at press club premises to commemorate the genocide, carried out by Pakistan occupation forces that left 17 people including intellectuals and politicians were brutally killed on this day in 1971 .
The participants demanded of the government for taking steps to preserve the mass grave site so that people can pay homage to the great sons of the soil, who were buried there.
The Pakistani army with the help of their local collaborators picked up 17 people including intellectuals and politicians from their houses on the night of November 25 in 1971.
After mass killing the bodies were dumped and later locals and Freedom Fighters unearthed the mass grave near Boalia Club in the city on December 30.
After killing bodies of the 17 martyred including Professor Mir Abdul Quayyum of Rajshahi University, Nawrose-ud-Doula Khan, Taslim Uddin, Abul Hossain, Alauddin, Taiyab Ali, Mirja Sultan, Azizul Haque Chowdhury and Aminul Haque Chowdhury were dumped at the site. “I can still recollect the day when I went to the grave site riding a bicycle in the morning of December 30, 1971. I could identify my father’s body by seeing the ring on his finger,” said Omor Faruque Chowdhury, MP, son of Azizul Haque Chowdhury, while addressing
the discussion as chief guest.
He said the genocide committed by the Pakistani occupation forces with the help of their collaborators at different areas of the city in 1971 still reminds of heinous atrocities and crime against humanity.
He also said there are more mass-graves n the city including Upashahar and Tallaimari but unfortunately all those remained in uncared condition. Masudur Rahman Rinku, nephew of the martyred businessman Altaf Hossain, said he identified his uncle’s body after seeing his sweater and even thirteen of the bodies were found tied up with ropes.
Freedom fighters , members of the martyred family and civil society at a discussion held here on Mon day made a clarion call for conservation of the mass grave site at Babla Bon in the city’s Shrirampur area.
They urged concerned authorities to come forward to this end as the grave site has remained neglected for years for lack of proper demarcation of the site.
Jononeta Ataur Rahman Smrity Parishad and Rajshahi Press Club jointly organized the discussion held at press club premises to commemorate the genocide, carried out by Pakistan occupation forces that left 17 people including intellectuals and politicians were brutally killed on this day in 1971 .
The participants demanded of the government for taking steps to preserve the mass grave site so that people can pay homage to the great sons of the soil, who were buried there.
The Pakistani army with the help of their local collaborators picked up 17 people including intellectuals and politicians from their houses on the night of November 25 in 1971.
After mass killing the bodies were dumped and later locals and Freedom Fighters unearthed the mass grave near Boalia Club in the city on December 30.
After killing bodies of the 17 martyred including Professor Mir Abdul Quayyum of Rajshahi University, Nawrose-ud-Doula Khan, Taslim Uddin, Abul Hossain, Alauddin, Taiyab Ali, Mirja Sultan, Azizul Haque Chowdhury and Aminul Haque Chowdhury were dumped at the site. “I can still recollect the day when I went to the grave site riding a bicycle in the morning of December 30, 1971. I could identify my father’s body by seeing the ring on his finger,” said Omor Faruque Chowdhury, MP, son of Azizul Haque Chowdhury, while addressing
the discussion as chief guest.
He said the genocide committed by the Pakistani occupation forces with the help of their collaborators at different areas of the city in 1971 still reminds of heinous atrocities and crime against humanity.
He also said there are more mass-graves n the city including Upashahar and Tallaimari but unfortunately all those remained in uncared condition. Masudur Rahman Rinku, nephew of the martyred businessman Altaf Hossain, said he identified his uncle’s body after seeing his sweater and even thirteen of the bodies were found tied up with ropes.
