JS resolves to declare March 25 genocide day

The Jatiya Sangsad on Saturday unanimously adopted a motion for declaring March 25 as ‘genocide day’ and taking steps to earn international recognition of the day commemorating genocide carried out by occupation Pakistan army against unarmed people of Bangladesh.
The crackdown on the unarmed people on the night of March 25 set off the nine-month War of Independence led by the Mujibnagar government in exile, which ended with the emergence of independent Bangladesh on December 16, 1971, following the supreme sacrifice of over 3 million people and heroic fight of freedom fighters of all ages and class.
The parliament session chaired by speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury passed the motion by voice vote at about 10:00pm after more than six hours of general discussion by 54 treasury and opposition bench lawmakers on the motion moved by Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal lawmaker Shirin Akter.
Taking part in the discussion, prime minister Sheikh Hasina said that she wholeheartedly supported the proposal of Shirin Akter as on March 25 Pakistani army with tanks and others military equipment carried out attack on sleeping and unarmed people in Rajarbagh, Peelkhana, Dhaka University and old Dhaka.
‘All newspapers across the globe had reported about the genocide taken place in Bangladesh during the liberation war,’ she said adding that village after village were set into fire, women were picked up and raped, youths were killed.
‘But Pakistani people are still providing false and fabricated information and some Bangladeshi collaborators are helping them,’ she said.
‘A former major general of Bangladesh Army, ZA Khan, a black sheep, said in his book that liberation war was a result of conspiracy of RAW,’ she said. 
Opposition leader in the parliament Raushan Ershad said that March 25 night was the blackest and horror night for the country when ‘Pakistanis carried out genocide to make the future Bangladesh meritless.’
Jatiya party chairman Hussain Muhammad Ershad said that Pakistani army and political leaders tried to destroy Bengali nation from the root through the genocide. ‘Each year we should inform rest of the world what Pakistani army had done to us.’ 
Placing the motion, Shirin Akter said that coward Pakistani army carried out worst genocide attacking unarmed sleeping Bengalis. Marauding Pakistani army led by Tikka Khan with the order military dictator Yahya Khan launched ‘Operation search light’ to carry out the worst genocide of the world.
She proposed declaring March 25 as genocide day and taking steps to earn international recognition of the day in memory of genocide. 
State minister for foreign affairs Shahriar Alam said that his ministry would take necessary steps to earn international recognition of the day in memory of genocide.
Commerce minister Tofail Ahmed proposed for March 25 as National Genocide Day and for observing December 1, as freedom fighters day. Awami League lawmaker Mahiuddin Khan Alamgir supported both the proposals.
Information minister Hasanul Haq Inu, said that the declaration of the genocide day was needed to stop the way of Pakistani ghost’s taking state power. 
Civil aviation and tourism minister Rashed Khan Menon said that through Shimla treaty Pakistan itself took the responsibility for the trial of the 195 Pakistani war prisoners but they had not kept their word.
AL lawmakers Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim, Faruk Khan and Bahauddin Nasim and Tarikat Federation lawmaker Nazibul Bashar Maizvandary also supported Shirin Akter’s motion.

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