Observe “Genocide Day”
May 5, 1971 was a red letter day at the famous North Bengal Sugar Mills at Gopalpur in Natore district. About one hundred innocent people including my beloved eldest brother, the then General Manager Lieutenant Anwarul Azim, LLB, officers, labourers and staff of this mill were brutally killed on the staircases of a pond in the mill premises in 1971.
Their holy dead bodies were then floating on the said pond for several days and their bodies were not found. Only three labourers luckily escaped with critical injuries.
This holy pond is now called "Shaheed Sagar" by the locals.
A museum should be established in the mill premises which could preserve photos, dresses, handwritings, sketches, newspaper clips and other relics of these martyrs.
I, on behalf of the families of these martyrs, earnestly request our democratic government to observe this genocide day in all sugar mills of our country on 5 May every year.
Would our president, the prime minister and higher authorities concerned kindly look into the matter?
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