Remember wars to avoid future ones
Says friend of 1971 Liberation War
Despite the agonies and trauma associated with war, people commemorate war tragedies not to fight a future one but to dream of a world without wars, said a friend of Bangladesh's 1971 Liberation War yesterday.
Narayan Desai, who received the “Friends of Liberation War Honour” on Saturday, was addressing the 41st anniversary of the publication of “The Testimony of Sixty” organised by Liberation War Museum on its premises in the capital.
He is one of the signatories of “The Testimony of Sixty” -- a broadsheet appealing to world leaders documenting facts of what was happening in the then East Pakistan.
On the recent attack on the Buddhist community, Julian Francis, organiser of Oxfam in 1971, pointed at his outfit made of cotton grown by Gujarat's indigenous people, spun and woven by Hindus and block printed by Muslims.
He said the outfit was made after the 2002 Gujarat riots as an inter-community initiative.
The museum trustees appealed to the world leaders to support Bangladesh bring to justice perpetrators of the 1971 genocide so that truth and justice for all humanity could be upheld.
The museum also honoured 38 Bangladeshis who marched from Bangladesh to Delhi in 1971 to raise support for the Liberation War.
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