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The government has started working on the roadmap to get international recognition for the genocide, says Hasan Mahmud. He said this while participating in the Dhaka metropolitan north-south Awami League rally on the occasion of March 25 Genocide Day on Bangabandhu Avenue on Monday (March 25).
Hasan said that one of the reasons for not getting international recognition for the genocide is the anti-independence forces.
“After Bangabandhu's assassination, evidence of the genocide was destroyed. Attempts have been made to sow confusion about the number of martyrs in the Liberation War because the BNP did not want the flag of Bangladesh,” he alleged.
Hasan said the government has started working on the roadmap to get international recognition for the genocide.
He said that many former Peace Committee collaborators of the Pakistani army have joined the BNP's freedom fighter rally. They joke about freedom, he said. At the same programme, Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader blamed BNP for failure to get global recognition for genocide.
They (BNP) are agents. Because of them, we still haven't got the recognition of the genocide. We have not got our fair dues from Pakistan. We have been bearing the burden of Pakistani citizens for many years. They did not take back their citizens despite giving promise to take them back, he said.
Pakistani aggressors, armed with sophisticated weapons, indiscriminately carried out genocide on the unarmed Bengalis on March 25, 1971, to silence the Bengali nation forever. They wanted to stop the resistance of independence-seeking people during their infamous 'Operation Searchlight'.
Massacres took place simultaneously on the Dhaka University campus, Rajarbagh Police Lines, Pilkhana, Jashore, Khulna, Rajshahi, Rangpur, Syedpur, Cumilla, Sylhet and Chattogram, he said.
The occupation force formed the Peace Committee throughout East Bengal to abet them in their crimes during the Liberation War. Bangladesh finally won independence under the leadership of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman after an exceptionally bloody nine-month Liberation War during which three million lives were lost and 200,000 women were dishonoured.
BNP’s founder Ziaur Rahman rehabilitated the war criminals in Bangladesh’s politics and his party has maintained close ties with them since then.
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