Calling upon the United Nations and the global community to declare March 25 as Genocide Day globally in remembrance of the atrocities carried out by the Pakistan Army on the day in 1971 doesn’t need any lobbying. What is needed is to make the world people get informed and learn how barbarically the Pakistan army killed thousands of innocent unarmed Bengali civilians plus the Bangalee members of the EPR, police, teachers and students on the black night of March 25 in 1971. The barbaric forces not only killed innocent people indiscriminately but set fire to houses and property and looted business establishments, leaving a trail of destruction.In fact, even the common Pakistanis are yet to get fully informed what barbaric acts their army posted in the then East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) had committed in the black night of March 25, 1971 and during the 9-month long bloody war of liberation wherein they killed some 30 lakhs people. They made more than one crore people homeless and refugees. Unfortunate but true, often it is seen that independent Bangladesh being shown as a part of India in maps and documents.
So, I strongly feel that all our citizens, be in home or in abroad, should intensify our efforts to let world people know about the mass killings and destructions in Bangladesh (then East Pakistan) and other related truths. Perhaps, Citizen Journalism can work well to spread our words of sorrows and sufferings during 1971 by writing articles on print media and blogs on internet.
This is a common call of all Bangladeshis to the United Nations to declare March 25 as ‘Genocide Day’. We sincerely hope that the global community will positively appreciate our cause and expectation.
Yours truly,
Professor M Zahidul Haque
Department of Agricultural Extension & Information System
Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University
Dhaka-1207.
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