Boorish behaviour!

By Shima, Dept. of English Dhaka University
12 January 2004, 18:00 PM
In the year 2003, we celebrated the 32nd anniversary of the Victory Day. In order to pay tribute to the martyrs and freedom fighters of the Liberation War, we, under the banner of Shamsun Nahar Hall (DU), went to the National Memorial at Savar .

As we were waiting along the entrance like around 25 other different organisations for our turn ,suddenly people under the banner of a certain political party proceeded towards the Memorial along the exit. To our utter astonishment, they placed their wreaths at the Memorial earlier than us (the waiting organisations and parties along the entrance) and left the premises of the Memorial clapping ,chanting slogans and sometimes dancing. Witnessing such a farce, I am in doubt whether those people came to pay tribute to our victorious freedom fighters, or to dishonour them or to demean our pride--the liberation war.