Blitz Bureau
NEW DELHI:The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) on November 10 alleged that efforts are underway to erase the memory of the country’s 1971 Liberation War against Pakistan, local media reported.
Addressing a meeting organised at the Thakurgaon District Freedom Fighters Complex, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir took an indirect dig at radical Islamist party Jamaat–e–Islami. “Those who had collaborated with the Pakistani army to kill freedom fighters and committing atrocities against women are now attempting to swallow the country,” Bangladeshi media outlet UNB quoted Fakhrul as saying.
“There is a growing attempt to promote a notion that the freedom fighters of 1971 made no contribution to the Liberation War or the nation, and that only those active in 2024 deserve credit for everything,” he added. Recalling the Liberation War, the BNP leader further said, “Thousands of my brothers were martyred in 1971, countless people had to leave their homes and seek refuge in India and our mothers and sisters were subjected to atrocities and killings. Can we forget that?”
