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26th March,
2002
- 31st
Anniversary of the Independence day of Bangladesh!
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Happy
independence day, Bangladeshis everywhere! On
this 31st anniversary of our independence day
we remember with pride and sorrow those
immortal martyrs who sacrificed their lives
for our motherland along with the countless
unfortunate women who fell prey to the brutal
and lustful Pakistani army.
We
are aware that there is a group of people who
will always argue that 31 years have passed
by, now it's time to forget the past and move
on. But we say to them that our liberation war
is the very root of our existence as a nation
from which we draw the inspiration to grow and
move forward. We can not forge ahead
forgetting our roots.
We
need to constantly remind our future
generations about the most glorious and
grievous past of our country so as to enable
them to gather courage and commitment to fight
the enemies of the present and future and
engage in the noble mission of nation
building!
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DECLARATION
OF INDEPENDENCE
By
BANGABANDHU SHEIKH MUJIBUR RAHMAN
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"
This may be my last message, from today
Bangladesh is independent. I call upon the
people of Bangladesh wherever you might be and
with whatever you have, to resist the army of
occupation to the last. Your fight must go on
until the last soldier of the Pakistan
occupation army is expelled from the soil of
Bangladesh and final victory is achieved.''
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[Message
embodying Declaration of Independence sent by
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman to Chittagong
shortly after midnight of 25th March, i.e. early hours
of 26th March, 1971 for transmission throughout
Bangladesh over the ex-DPR transmitter.]
Source:
"Bangladesher Shawdhinata Juddho - Vol. 3, Page
1"
DECLARATION
OF INDEPENDENCE
as
read out By
MAJOR ZIAUR RAHMAN
(This is the text of the message broadcast on behalf
of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on March 27, 1971, by Major
Ziaur Rahman from Kalurghat Radio Station - Shawdin
Bangla Betar Kendra.)
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"Major
Zia, Provisional Commander-in-Chief of the
Bangladesh Liberation Army, hereby proclaims,
on behalf of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the
independence of Bangladesh.
I
also declare, we have already framed a
sovereign, legal Government under Sheikh
Mujibur Rahmnan which
pledges to function as per law and the
constitution. The new democratic Government is
committed to a policy of nonalignment in
international relations. It will seek
friendship with all nations and strive for
international peace. I appeal to all
Government to mobilige public opinion in their
respective countries against the brutal
genocide in Bangladfesh.
The
Government under Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is
sovereign legal Government of Bangladesh and
is entitled to recognition from all democratic
nations of the world.
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Source:
"Bangladesher Shawdhinata Juddho - Vol. 3, Page
3"
Independence,
how this word became ours
�Cause
a poem will be written, with eager excitement
Lakhs and lakhs of excited anxious eager rebelious
audiences are waiting
Till dawn on the beach of the park that turned into an
ocean of crowd-
�When is the poet arriving?� �When is the poet
arriving?�
This
childrens� park was not there then,
This tree, flower adorned park was not there then,
This sleepy colourless afternoon was not there then
Then how was the afternoon then?
Then how was, the childrens� park, bench-tree flower
garden
Covered, this field, the heart of Dhaka?
I
know, black hand was raised to erase the memory of
that day
So I see today in this poetless desolate plain
Poet against poet,
Field against field,
Afternoon against afternoon,
Park against park,
March against march......
0!
unborn children, 0! poet of future,
While swinging on the colourful cradle of childrens�
park
You will know one day everything - I�m, for you
Leaving the story of that great afternoon
Neither the park, nor the flower garden - nothing was
there,
Only as the sky still today touching the horizon
Was there wide grass-filled field, green and greenish
The green of our freedom-filled heart mingled with
The green of this wide field
Red-hand
around their head and wrist, they came rushing to this
field,
The iron labouror from factories,
Plough and yoke on their shoulders, The naked farmers
came in swarms,
The fiery youths came snatching the arms of police,
Death in their fist, dream in their eyes, the
middle-class came,
Lower middle-class, sad clerks, women, aged,
prostitute, vagabond, and
The children, as you are, the leaf collecting
children, in groups
A
poem will be recited, is that the reason for anxious
waiting by mass
�When is the poet arriving?� �When is the poet
arriving?�
After
hundred struggles of hundred years, in a Rabindranath-like
proud step
The poet at last stood on the people�s platform
Then in a twinkling, in a flush water flooded the
boat,
Swing in the heart,
Tide in the crowd ocean, all doors are open -
Who will stop his fiery speech?
Trembling the platform of mass-fire, the poet recited
the immortal poem:
�The struggle this time is for freedom,
The struggle this time is for independence�
From
then, the word 'Independence' is ours..."
[ Nirmalendhu Goone's poem "Swaadhinotaa,
ei shobdhoti kibhaabe aamaader holo"; Translation: Dr. Masum Z.
Hasan
The
Declaration Of Independence: By
A. M. Abdus Sattar (with the Introductory comments by
Dr. A. H. Jaffor Ullah)
The Candle Shall Remain Lit
By Shafiq Ahmad
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Did
You Know?
... The mass killings in Bangladesh
(then East Pakistan) in 1971 vie with
the annihilation of the Soviet POWs, the
holocaust against the Jews, and the
genocide in Rwanda are considered to be
as the most concentrated act of genocide
in the twentieth century.. But
what do our freethinkers think on this issue ? |
Worst
Genocide? Lopa
Tasneem
 Re:
Worst Genocide Shafiq
Ahmad
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