BSS, Rangpur :
The Jharuarbeel and Padmapukur Genocide Day- 2017 will be observed here in Badarganj upazila tomorrow to pay due respect to more than 1,200 martyred sons and daughters of the soil during the War of Liberation.
The Jharuarbeel-Padmapukur Baddhyabhumi Sangrakkhan Committee, Badarganj Upazila Muktijoddha Sangsad, Ghatabeel Shaheed Smriti Girls’ High School and different organisations have chalked out programmes to observe the day.
The programmes including placing of floral wreaths at the ‘Swadhinota Smritistambha’ at Jharuarbeel- Padmapukur Baddhyabhumi in Badarganj upazila to pay due respect to the martyrs and a discussion there.
Talking to BSS, District Muktijoddha Commander Mosaddek Hossain Bablu said the Pakistani occupation forces with their local collaborators committed genocide of 1,200 innocent Bangalees in Jharuarbeel and Padmapukur here on April 17 in 1971.
“The heinous genocide was committed at Jharuarbeel and Padmapukur simultaneously when the provisional government of Bangladesh was taking oath at Baiddonathtola in Meherpur to give the War of Liberation a decisive dimension,” he said.
Local freedom fighter Majibar Rahman Master said the Pakistani occupation forces with local war criminals, collaborators, razakars, al-badars and al-shams came to Badarganj from Parbotipur by a train in the morning on April 17 in 1971.
“They surrounded many villages in the area and started killing of the innocent Bangalee men, women and children irrespective of caste, creed and religion, set fire and looted properties, raped, violated and tortured hundreds of the daughters,” he said.
Local JASOD leader Abdus Sattar said the occupation forces caught some 1,200 innocent Bangalees, took them to nearby Padmapukur and Jharuarbeel and killed them on the spot defeating all previous atrocities committed against the humanity in the world history.
Quoting eyewitnesses, he said, “The whole area turned into mass slaughtering ground when fresh bloods of the innocent Independence-seeker Bangalees flowed turning the grasses and waters Padmapukur and Jharuarbeel there into red.”
Professor Anwarul Islam said names of 400 martyrs of Jharuarbeel and Padmapukur genocide have been collected so far after conducting research and included in the book ‘History of Rangpur District’ published by Rangpur district administration in 2000.
The Jharuarbeel and Padmapukur Genocide Day- 2017 will be observed here in Badarganj upazila tomorrow to pay due respect to more than 1,200 martyred sons and daughters of the soil during the War of Liberation.
The Jharuarbeel-Padmapukur Baddhyabhumi Sangrakkhan Committee, Badarganj Upazila Muktijoddha Sangsad, Ghatabeel Shaheed Smriti Girls’ High School and different organisations have chalked out programmes to observe the day.
The programmes including placing of floral wreaths at the ‘Swadhinota Smritistambha’ at Jharuarbeel- Padmapukur Baddhyabhumi in Badarganj upazila to pay due respect to the martyrs and a discussion there.
Talking to BSS, District Muktijoddha Commander Mosaddek Hossain Bablu said the Pakistani occupation forces with their local collaborators committed genocide of 1,200 innocent Bangalees in Jharuarbeel and Padmapukur here on April 17 in 1971.
“The heinous genocide was committed at Jharuarbeel and Padmapukur simultaneously when the provisional government of Bangladesh was taking oath at Baiddonathtola in Meherpur to give the War of Liberation a decisive dimension,” he said.
Local freedom fighter Majibar Rahman Master said the Pakistani occupation forces with local war criminals, collaborators, razakars, al-badars and al-shams came to Badarganj from Parbotipur by a train in the morning on April 17 in 1971.
“They surrounded many villages in the area and started killing of the innocent Bangalee men, women and children irrespective of caste, creed and religion, set fire and looted properties, raped, violated and tortured hundreds of the daughters,” he said.
Local JASOD leader Abdus Sattar said the occupation forces caught some 1,200 innocent Bangalees, took them to nearby Padmapukur and Jharuarbeel and killed them on the spot defeating all previous atrocities committed against the humanity in the world history.
Quoting eyewitnesses, he said, “The whole area turned into mass slaughtering ground when fresh bloods of the innocent Independence-seeker Bangalees flowed turning the grasses and waters Padmapukur and Jharuarbeel there into red.”
Professor Anwarul Islam said names of 400 martyrs of Jharuarbeel and Padmapukur genocide have been collected so far after conducting research and included in the book ‘History of Rangpur District’ published by Rangpur district administration in 2000.
