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Published : 16 Dec 2013, 07:56 PM
On the first Victory Day celebration after the verdicts against war crimes convicts began to be implemented, the freedom fighters appealed to the people to build up resistance against the nationwide violence unleashed by Jamaat.
“On this Victory Day our pledge will be to unite the nation to oppose the violence of Jammat and Shibir. We have to build up a resistance against their anti-national activities,” said Mohammed Dabir Uddin, a freedom fighter from Pathalia in Savar on the outskirts of Dhaka City.
He had come to pay his tributes to the war heroes at the National Martyrs’ Memorial at Savar with his seven-year old grandson on Monday.
Another freedom fighter, Ismat Kadir Gama, lamented that even after so many years of independence the Jamaat-Shibir combine was plotting to destroy Bangladesh.
“They are now killing people by calling strikes and blockades, setting vehicles on fire and uprooting railway tracks,” he said.
Stating that no patriotic citizen could tolerate such mindless violence, he said, “This Victory Day our vow will be to fight the Jamaat-Shibir together.”
Maulana Habibur Rahman had been active in Sector 3 in 1971. He foresaw a bleak future for Bangladesh, he said, if the Jamaat-Shibir, who had opposed the liberation war, were not contained now.
The Victory Day was marked by similar calls by thousands of youths against violence and destruction.
President of the ‘Amra Muktijoddhar Sontan’ (an organisation of the children of freedom fighters) Humayun Kabir said the youths and the other people of the country wanted the execution of all the war crimes convicts.
He said it was imperative to create a strong "opposition to Jamaat" to protect the country's interests.
A student of Dhaka’s Northern University, Nusrat Salam Sorno, felt the Jamaat-Shibir combine would continue to conspire against the nation unless they were "banished" from the country.
This student was of the view that youths would have to take the initiative to unite the country against the Jamaat.
A student of the Drama and Dramatics Department of the Jahangirnagar University, Hamja Rahman said the “Jamaat wants to strangle the country”.
“So let the pledge of this Victory Day be, together we will protest and prevail over them.”
