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Contribution of Shaheed Zayeda Recalled

Recover 45,000 acres of khas land, punish grabbers

Speakers urge govt

OUR CORRESPONDENT, Satkhira
Speakers at a seminar yesterday urged the government to recover khas (fellow) land from the grabbers, who occupied 45,000 acres of land either forcibly or by making forged deeds in the district, and distribute the land among the landless people as it is their constitutional right.
They also demanded arrest and punishment to the land grabbers who shot dead landless leader Shaheed Zayeda Khatun at -Baburabad-uuder Kaliganj upazila oh July 27 in 1998 as the landless
demanded khas land.
They called on the landless people to be united in asserting their rights to the government khas land.
Styled "Ten years of self-sacrifice of landless leader Shaheed Zayeda Khatun: Expectations and gains of the landless," the seminar was jointly organised by Central Bhumi Committee (land committee).
out of the khas land, they said and vowed to continue agitation for distribution of the government land among the landless people in the areas.
The speakers also urged the landless people to remain vigilant against alleged conspiracies by some vested quarters to grab khas land.
Manusher Jonno Foundation and Uttaran at Sadar upazila auditorium with Bhumi Committee President advocate Abdur Rahim in the chair.
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Alfdiil Azfz was’pfe^vhfas the Ijref guest* while it was addressed by*
freedom fighters Prof Abu Ahmed and Moroi Abdus Salam, journalist Kalyan Banarjee, district Awami League leader Azibar Rahman, Central Bhumi Committee leaders advocate Abul Kalam Azad, Sheikh Abdul Mahit, advocate Azharul Islam, advocate Pulin Bihari Sarkar, Saifullah Laskar and Prof Abdul Khaleque and NGO leader Dr Nazrul Islam.
Paying tribute to Shaheed Zayeda, the speakers said landless housewife Zayeda Khatun sacrificed her life for the landless people to establish their constitutional rights to khas land when influential land grabbers attacked the landless to evict them from khas land.
The unity of the landless can force the influential land grabbers
They also demanded that the government withdraw false cases filed against the landless people, arrest land grabbers, distribute