Shamim Ahmed
When we were growing up, when we saw a person being taken to the Shaheed Minar after death to be honored, we knew that this person had done something great for the country. A freedom fighter, artist, writer, prominent politician, actor, linguist, teacher, researcher, etc. We used to think that a person had to do a lot of hard work to be honored at the Shaheed Minar after death.
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We have seen the same thing even after growing up. We have seen it during Ershad’s time, Khaleda Zia’s time, Sheikh Hasina’s time. Despite political differences, we have grown up seeing some minimum rules in national affairs.
Yet in the last 22 months, Bangladesh has changed before our eyes. During the rule of Yunus and Tarique Rahman, freedom fighters were not honored at the Shaheed Minar. Matia Chowdhury and Tofail Ahmed were not honored at the Shaheed Minar; the President and Prime Minister did not express their condolences, nor were they buried with state honors.
We are shocked to see anti-independence content creators, video bloggers, and religious terrorists being taken to Shaheed Minar; those who have no education, no knowledge of the language, no respect for, or love for Bengali culture.
Those who claim they are for independence but against Sheikh Hasina – what is their statement on these issues? They should make a statement if they claim to be for independence and against fascists. If they do not make that claim and admit their involvement in the July-August 2024 conspiracy, then there is no need to make a statement.
Who is protesting this unimaginable injustice at this time or not will be their litmus test in the future. The civil servants who stand with banners in Shahbagh and Katabaon, exchanging dollars for words, will have to answer.
Those who die, they die. Their respect is in our hearts, and will remain. But among those who are alive, the reckoning of who has a backbone and who does not is becoming clear at this time in history. Everything is being recorded. It will happen.
Those who do not allow Matia Chowdhury and Tofail Ahmed to be taken to the Shaheed Minar, and do not express their grief over their deaths, are clearly Pakibir. They do not respect the existence of Bangladesh. They have only absorbed and are taking the fruits of the independent country gifted by Bangabandhu.
They will be brought to justice with the slogan “Joy Bangla”. It will happen.
I express my condolences on the death of Tofail Ahmed. It is painful that you liberated a country and saw it being subjugated again at the time of your death. This is our responsibility. But we will make it independent again. Your successors will surely see it.
Joy Bengali.
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Professor Shamim Ahmed
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