Sugar mills should observe May 5 as genocide day
Sunday, 29 March 2009
On May 05, 1971, about 100 innocent persons were killed at North Bengal Sugar Mills Ltd at Gopalpur in Natore by the Pakistani army. Among them was my beloved eldest brother, the then General Manager (Administrator) of the mill, Shaheed Lieutenant Anwarul Azim MA LLB and other officers and workers of the mill. They were brutally killed on the steps of a pond on the main mill premises. The barbarous Pakistan Army used machine gun fire to kill them.
Their bodies were thrown into the pond and were never found. Only three labourers were lucky to escape the genocide with critical injuries.
This pond in now called "Shaheed Sagar".
A museum should be established on the mill premises, keeping on display the photographs, clothes, hand-writings, life sketches and other relics of the martyrs. The spot should be conserved as a sacred place of the Liberation War and visits should be organised.
I, on behalf of the families of the martyrs, earnestly request the government to declare that the day be observed by all the sugar mills in our country to commemorate the martyrs.
The President, the Prime Minister, the Industry Minister and the authorities concerned should kindly consider the proposal as a long-standing dream of the families of the martyrs.
Mohammad Anwarul Quadir
Advocate and journalist
Mati Manzil
Masterpara, Chakdev
PO & Dist: Naogaon-6500
Their bodies were thrown into the pond and were never found. Only three labourers were lucky to escape the genocide with critical injuries.
This pond in now called "Shaheed Sagar".
A museum should be established on the mill premises, keeping on display the photographs, clothes, hand-writings, life sketches and other relics of the martyrs. The spot should be conserved as a sacred place of the Liberation War and visits should be organised.
I, on behalf of the families of the martyrs, earnestly request the government to declare that the day be observed by all the sugar mills in our country to commemorate the martyrs.
The President, the Prime Minister, the Industry Minister and the authorities concerned should kindly consider the proposal as a long-standing dream of the families of the martyrs.
Mohammad Anwarul Quadir
Advocate and journalist
Mati Manzil
Masterpara, Chakdev
PO & Dist: Naogaon-6500