Contemptuous comments

Goyeshwar Roy has shown the temerity to call the martyred intellectuals "anti liberation elements" who "died like fools". We are disgusted by the crass and cussed comment that spewed from the mouth of the BNP leader regarding our martyred intellectuals. Coming on the heels of his Chairperson's comments that questioned the number of the victims of Pakistani genocide, and especially in the month of December, it is like rubbing salt into the wounds that we have been living with every day of the year for the last forty four years. He has not only denigrated the martyred intellectuals, he has also, by his insensitive and unwarranted remarks, maligned the Liberation War and the three million martyrs of 1971. Such remarks deserve to be treated with the greatest contempt.  

We wonder why the BNP has taken it upon itself to open resolved issues of 1971. And why should these become subjects of politics? And anyone who uses the adjectives that Goyeshwar has in respect of our intellectuals, needs to have his faculties tested. 

Of late we notice a propensity in some quarters to denigrate some aspects of our fight against the Pakistanis. We consider the Liberation War too hallowed to be slighted and made light of and nobody but nobody should say anything that hurts the collective psyche of the hundred sixty million people of this country.