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A life less ordinary dies without justice

Homage paid to Birangana Husna

Staff Correspondent
Thirty-seven years after the barbaric Pakistani army and their local collaborators devastated her simple existence, Birangana Husna Banu died on July 8 last without seeing the trial of the peqjetrators.
The last words on her lips was the question of how long she has to wait to see the trial of war criminals in independent Bangladesh.
Sammilito Sanskritik Joie (SSJ) paid homage to the birangana at a memorial they organised yesterday in city's Liberation War Museum.
'Birangana' is the title given by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman to all the women who were raped and
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Sufina Lohani. who gave shelter to Husna Banu and eight other Biranganas after the shutdown of the 'Women Rehabilitation Centre' - which sheltered Biranganas after the war - in 1975, said the nation has always honoured its freedom 4 fighters but failed to give due respeetto its biranganas.
“The Pakistani army with the help of razakars separated me from my child and brought me to their camp. After the war ended, my husband and society refused to accept me. I had to leave my own village. All my sorrow’s would end if I hear that the country’s war criminals have been brought to trial and punished duly," Husna Banu said in a statement recorded in a docu-mentary screened at the programme.
Speakers at the programme said all biranganas, including Husna Banu, would be honoured when the war criminals are brought (tp committed against humanity during the war.
Speakers also demanded that all birangana's be buried with state honour and the government introduce a special allowance for suriving biranganas.
Golam Kuddus, general secretary of SSL said, “The nation does not what miserable conditions the birangana's are passing their days in. They are still neglected by the society today. The government should immediately make a list of the surviving war heroines and provide special allowance to them."
Mafidul Haque, one of the trustees of Liberation War Museum, said that t was a matter of deep regret that the country nation has failed to bring the war criminals to justice so far.
SSJ President Nasir Uddin Yusuf presided over the programme where Ramendra Majumder, among other cultjyxal aptiyisrs, pa^d,, tribute to Husna Banu.