Resist communal forces
Women leaders tell memorial meeting on Sufia Kamal
Women leaders of Samajik Protirodh Committee, a platform of 67 development organisations, have vowed to resist communal forces to establish a non-communal state following the ideology of late poet Sufia Kamal.
They urged the country's women to come forward to foil the conspiracy against the ongoing war crimes trial.
The leaders made the call at a memorial meeting on poet Sufia Kamal, organised by the committee in the capital's Cirdap auditorium yesterday marking her 13th death anniversary.
Sufia Kamal never feared to the evil forces of their activities and never compromised with any injustices in the society; rather she raised her voices against all kinds of communalism and fanaticism, said Sultana Kamal, daughter of the poet.
“I strongly believe the people of Bangladesh do not support the people who use religion for their interests. The trial of the war criminals must be held because it was the demand of Sufia Kamal who strongly voiced against the collaborators of our Liberation War,†she said.
Speaking as the chair, Sultana Kamal, also executive director of Ain o Salish Kendra, said the followers of Sufia Kamal must struggle to establish a non-communal society.
Shirin Akhter, standing committee member of Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal; Farida Akhter, executive director of Nari Gronthho Probortona; Baby Moudud, a lawmaker; and Ayesha Khanom, president of Bangladesh Mahila Parishad also spoke.
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