'Bring killers to justice'

It will be a shame for Bangalees, as a nation, to commemorate them without bringing their killers to book, they said.

Bangabandhu Sangskritik Jote organised the discussion on the life and works of Tajuddin at the National Press Club in the city to mark his 81st birth anniversary.

The politics nowadays has become criminalised, said former law minister Abdul Matin Khasru, adding that the situation would not have been the same if Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Tajuddin Ahmed had been alive.

The farsightedness and wisdom of Tajuddin had helped achieve independence, he said.

Supreme Court Bar Association President Barrister Amir-Ul Islam said Tajuddin has dedicated his life to the cause of Bangladesh.

Despite the limited resources of Mujibnagar government, he successfully mobilised opinion of international community in favour of the liberation struggle, Amir-Ul Islam said.

Awami League Presidium Member Amir Hossain Amu said that the killing of Bangabandhu and four national leaders, dropping secularism from the constitution and recent attacks on AL President Sheikh Hasina and pro-liberation intellectuals are all part of a conspiracy that started just after the birth of Bangladesh.

He also said, "Bangabandhu's leadership coupled with Tajuddin Ahmed's wisdom and statesmanship brought us independence; now it is the duty of AL leaders and activists and all progressive forces to reach the fruits of independence to the common people."

Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury, editor of The Bangladesh Observer, said that there are two ways to honour our slain leaders: one is to bring the killers to justice and the other is to uphold their ideologies in society.

Prof Fazlul Huq, chief advisor to Bangabandhu Sangskritik Jote, Dhaka district, chaired the meeting while Organising Secretary of Krishak League MA Karim, Organising Secretary of Bangabandhu Ainjibi Parishad Mozammel Huq and AL leader Siddiqur Rauf Khan also spoke.