Freedom Fighters Must Prove They Are Muktijoddhas?
Syed Badrul Ahsan
3rd January, 2021 01:01:01
Close to half a century after the end of the War of Liberation, a good number of our reputed freedom fighters have been asked to submit documents testifying to their participation in the war. That is pretty interesting, not to say intriguing. One can only wonder at the sense of history in the men who, in the infinity of their wisdom, decided that illustrious and reputed freedom fighters like Haroon Habib, writer, researcher, historian and secretary general of the Sector Commanders Forum; Sadruzzaman Helal Bir Protik; Rezaul Karim, founder vice president of the Muktijoddha Central Council; Nayeem Jahangir, first secretary general of the Muktijoddha Central Council; and Engineer Afsar, wartime commander of liberation forces in Chittagong, needed to come up with evidence that they did indeed wage war in defence of the national cause back in 1971.