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Vote against war criminals

Urges Sangskritik Jote, begins Victory Day celebrations

DU Correspondent
Sammilito Sangskritik Jote, a platform of cultural organisations, yesterday launched its four-day-long Victory Day celebrations across the country with a vow to boycott war criminals in the upcoming national elections.
Family members of seven Birshreshthas of the Liberation War and leaders of the Jote inaugurated the celebrations by flying balloons at the Central Shaheed Minar.
The inaugural session began with the singing of the national anthem. Cultural activists performed dances, sang Liberation War songs and recited poems.
A declaration paper for the Victory Day celebrations, 2008, was read out in that session.
As part of the celebration programmes, mobile teams of the Jote's district and upazila units will hold rallies, processions and other programmes across the country till December 16, Jote sources said.
Speakers at the session called upon the people to boycott war
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The Jote's General Secretary Golam Kuddus said they started Victory Day celebrations in 1990 to mark the victory in the Liberation War and the defeat of the then autocratic ruler. Now it has become the festival of all pro-liberation war forces in the country.
He called upon the people to resist fundamentalists, terrorists and war criminals in the next polls so that Bangladesh could be led by people who have the real sprit of the Liberation War.
The Jote's President Nasir Uddin YusufBachchu criticised Jamaat-e-Islami for pledging, in their election manifesto, to enact ”blasphemy qct" if voted to power.
"Such act is against the constitution of the country and human rights," Bachchu observed, adding, "People who speak of formulating such acts have no right to participate in the election."
He said Jamaat has unveiled its true character before the people once again through this.
He also called upon the people to boycott war criminals in the next election to establish a secular and democratic society.
Mohammad Golam Mostafa, son of Birshreshtha Shaheed Nur Mohammad Sheikh, told reporters that it is not acceptable that the flag of Bangladesh should fly on the cars of war criminals.
Assistant General Secretary of Sammilito Sangskritik Jote Hasan Arif moderated the session. Poet Prof Muhammad Samad, media personnel M Hamid, theatre activist Mamunur Rashid and Mannan Hira also took part in the session among others.