Observing March 25 as Genocide Day
Calling upon the United Nations and the global community to declare March 25 as Genocide Day globally in remembrance of the atrocities carried out by the Pakistan Army on the day in 1971 doesn’t need any lobbying. What is needed is to make the world people get informed and learn how barbarically the Pakistan army killed thousands of innocent unarmed Bengali civilians plus the Bangalee members of the EPR, police, teachers and students on the black night of March 25 in 1971. The barbaric forces not only killed innocent people indiscriminately but set fire to houses and property and looted business establishments, leaving a trail of destruction.
So, I strongly feel that all our citizens, be in home or in abroad, should intensify our efforts to let world people know about the mass killings and destructions in Bangladesh (then East Pakistan) and other related truths. Perhaps, Citizen Journalism can work well to spread our words of sorrows and sufferings during 1971 by writing articles on print media and blogs on internet.
This is a common call of all Bangladeshis to the United Nations to declare March 25 as ‘Genocide Day’. We sincerely hope that the global community will positively appreciate our cause and expectation.
Professor M Zahidul Haque
Department of Agricultural Extension & Information System,
Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University,
Dhaka-1207.
