Speakers at a discussion meeting on Hiroshima Day on Wednesday called upon all to fight for global peace.
Bangladesh Shanti Parishad (peace council) organized the discussion on ‘Hiroshima Day: Stop Israel-US Attacks in Palestine’ at the National Press Club.
The speakers condemned Israeli atrocities in Gaza and urged the world leaders to build resistance against, what they said,’ US imperialism’. Cultural personality and journalist Kamal Lohani, former law minister Abdul Matin Khasru, MP, former minister Dilip Barua, Liberation War Museum trustee Dr. Sarwar Ali and peace movement leader Dr. Rafiqul Islam took part in the discussion while Bangladesh Shanti Parishad President Mozaffar Hossain Paltu was in the chair. Dhaka University Economics Professor Dr. M.M. Akash presented a keynote paper.
Kamal Lohani said all would have to fight to establish peace by stopping killings of Palestinians by Israel with the patronage of the United States. He said his efforts to build a Bangladesh free from razakars (collaborators) and war criminals are yet to be successful.
He called upon all, who dreams of razakar and war criminal-free country, to be united to establish peace.
Mozaffar Hossain Paltu said,’ the US is a threat to world peace’. The global people would have to be united to resist them, he added. He criticized Jamaat-e-Islami for its ‘silence’ over the killings of Palestinians.
Abdul Matin Khasru criticized the US for using its veto power in the United Nations against the just demand of Palestine. He urged the UN to scrap the veto power of the United States. He urged the US and the European Union not to give suggestion over the ongoing war crimes trials in the country.
