Three students, Akash Ahmed, Nazmu Shahadat Siddique and Saima Ahmed, representing BRAC University participated in a panel discussion, “Liberation War & Our Responsibility”, organised at Liberation War Museum on 13 December 2016.
They delineated the picture of the position of today’s generation on Liberation War and Bangladesh’s history.
Akash of microbiology said, “We have achieved liberty within just nine months which is the shortest period for liberation in world history. Supposedly, this era was to be the golden era of politics and nationwide development.”
“Yet everything is going backward -- eventually, giving rise to an I-hate-politics generation. Why so? Because this generation does not know the true value of history, thus, the connection between patriotism and politics is not conjoined. Only an authentic essence of Liberation War can build the bridge.”
Saima described the critical situation of religious intolerance raging in the country, citing the Ramu incident a few years back and the vandalising of Durga idols this year, saying the present generation was forfeiting the very essence of liberation putting the country on a point of developmental imbalance.
Nazmu focused on our current duty to resolve the problem. Khaled Mohiuddin, head of news, Independent TV, anchored the whole show.