Fight against anti-liberation forces not over: PM
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the struggle launched in 1971 was not over yet, and it would continue as long as the anti-liberation forces kept playing with the people's fate.
“Although the country achieved independence more than 40 years ago, the struggle is still on. Our spirit of liberation got dampened after the killing of the Father of the Nation”, she said.
The prime minister made the observation at a seminar on Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's historic March 7 speech at Osmani Memorial Auditorium in the city.
She said that after August 15, 1975, the anti-liberation forces became so powerful that they started distorting the history of the country's independence and Liberation War .
About the March 7 speech, she said, “The historic March 7 speech is still live and logical as we'll have to have our hopes and aspirations fulfilled based on the spirit of the independence”.
The prime minister mentioned that the government had started the trial of the war criminals and it would be completed. “Many quarters who don't believe in the liberation are out to save the war criminals, but they won't succeed”.
She requested all the pro-liberation forces to come forward and get united against the evil of the anti-liberation forces. “Time has come for us to be united…we'll have to implement the directives of the Father of the Nation given in the historic March 7 speech”, she said.
Hasina said the March 7 speech of Bangabandhu was the most-listened speech in the world and this would remain evergreen in the future as well.
She asked the new generation to learn the real history of the country. “You've to know how the country achieved its independence and who led the country towards independence”.
The seminar was organised by Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Memorial Museum.
Member secretary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Memorial Trust Sheikh Hafizur Rahman delivered the welcome speech.
Dhaka University's Prof Dr Ashraf Hossain presented the keynote speech while Prof Abul Hasan Chowdhury of Kusthia Islamic University and Prof Shafi Ahmed of Jahangirnagar University took part in the discussion.
Syed Siddiqur Rahman, curator of the memorial museum, also member of the memorial trust, delivered the vote of thanks.
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