The Sector Commanders’ Forum symbolically passed the baton on to the young generation for preserving the true history of the country at a Victory Day’s programme in the capital yesterday.
Remembering all of the martyrs of the Liberation War, the SCF dedicated this year’s Victory Day to the young generation by handing them over a national flag.
“A day will come when no direct participant of the Liberation War will be alive. Only the people who are now young will be there then. So, they will have to protect this country from internal and external conspiracies,” said SCF acting secretary general Harun Habib.
“After nine months of a bloody war, 90,000 Pakistani soldiers surrendered to the freedom fighters and the Indian joint forces. We achieved liberation from Pakistani subordination at this very Suhrawardy Udyan, then the Race Course ground,” Harun said.
Freedom Fighter Col (retd) Shamsul Alam said: “The Liberation War lasted nine months, but we had been struggling for emancipation for many years before that. Our struggle began after the 1947 partition. We had to shed blood for the right speak in our mother language Bangla in 1952.”
Shamsul, who was also framed with the infamous 1969 Agartala Conspiracy Case along with Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, said: “The real and undistorted history should reach the young so that they can avert all kinds of conspiracy and dilemma.”
The event included children’s song and dance, recitation and singing of patriotic songs. At the end, the Department of Theatre and Performance Studies of Dhaka University staged a play, imitating the historic surrender of the Pakistan Army.
