Ganajagaran Mancha to celebrate Pahela Baishakh with widows of Sohagpur

Ganajagaran Mancha will celebrate Pahela Baishakh with the widows of Sohagpur village in Sherpur’s Nalitabarhi, where Jamaat-e-Islami leader Mohammad Kamaruzzaman had their husbands killed during the Liberation War.

Dhaka University Correspondentbdnews24.com
Published : 12 April 2015, 06:43 PM
Updated : 12 April 2015, 06:43 PM

War criminal Kamaruzzaman was hanged on Saturday for his ‘worse than Nazis’ atrocities during the 1971 war.

Mancha activists have decided to celebrate the first day of the Bengali calendar at the ‘Village of Widows’.

A statement released by Mancha spokesperson Imran Sarker said the platform wanted to add a new dimension to the celebration this year with the hope of building a Bangladesh free of the killers of 1971.

They will start for Sherpur at dawn on Apr 14, which is the first day of the new Bengali year 1422.
The regional units of the platform in Sohagpur, Sherpur and Jamalpur have been preparing for the celebration.
The activists from Dhaka will bring clothes and food for the widows.
Kamaruzzaman was the Mymensingh region commander of Al-Badr, a force that collaborated with the Pakistani occupation during the war.
The International Crimes Tribunal's prosecution brought seven charges against the Jamaat leader.
The charges included that of killing 120 men of Sohagpur on Jul 25, 1971.