Fascist-style killings still on, says Serajul Islam Chy

Dhaka University professor emeritus Serajul Islam Choudhury on Monday, referring to the killing of Somen Chanda, said that his death was the first attack on the progressive politics of the country.

But the communist and progressive political forces had failed to resist the fascist-style attacks on politics, eminent social thinker Serajul said at the third commemoration lecture on Kaniz Fatema Mohasina organised by Samaj-Rupantar Adhyan Kendra at Poet Shamsur Rahman Seminar Hall at Bangla Academy.

While delivering the lecture titled ‘Hundred year of Somen Chanda’, who was born in 1920 and was brutally killed in 1942 in old Dhaka,  Serajul Islam said that it was our failure as a nation that fascist-style killings still prevail in politics.

Former DU professor Ahmed Kabir, who chaired the programme, said that Somen was a writer and a communist activist who wanted to form a repression-free society but was killed by the then fascist forces at the age of 21.

Kaniz Fatema Mohsina, who died in Dhaka in 2011, was a social worker and also mother of left politician Haider Akbar Khan Rano and Haider Akbar Khan Jhuna.

Left politician Mohammad Enamul Haque, coordinator of Samaj-Rupantar Adhyan Kenda, moderated the programme.

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