Peter Custers remembered

Politicians, academics and cultural activists on Tuesday at a commemoration meeting said Peter Custers was a real friend of Bangladesh, who had wanted to see a repression-free society here.
Road to Freedom, organised the commemoration meeting on Peter Custers at Liberation War Museum at Segunbagich in the capital.
Peter Custers died on September 3, in the Netherlands at the age 66.
Workers Party of Bangladesh president and civil aviation and tourism minister Rashed Khan Menon said Peter believed in internationalism and tried to work for the repressed people of Bangladesh.
Terming Peter a revolutionary, Menon said he had a dream for a Bangladesh where the rights of the common people and the farmers would be established.
Haider Akbar Khan Rano, presidium member of Communist Party of Bangladesh, said Peter was a true friend of Bangladesh.
He had travelled to different countries for establishing rights of the common people, Rano said.
Rano also refuted the claim of some quarters that Peter was a mysterious man and served the imperialists.
Former Jahangirnagar University vice chancellor and Dhaka University teacher Anwar Hossain said Peter kept close contacts with his bother colonel Taher.
Peter was sent to jail in a sedation case by the then government following a mutiny in the military on November 7, Anwar said.
Peter married an Indian lady and named his son Sukanta, according to the name of poet Sukanta Bhattachrya, Anwar said.
Cultural activist and president of Udichi Shilpi Gosthi Kamal Lohani, who chaired the meeting, said Peter supported war of independence of Bangladesh in 1971 and also wanted trials of the war criminals.
Sagar Lohani, a cultural activist, conducted the programme.
An interview of Peter on different Bangladesh issues was screened in the programme.

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