ET Desk: Chief adviser (CA) professor Muhammad Yunus today, Monday said those who were injured and martyred in the July uprising are the creators of history.

“You are the ‘living history’. I express my gratitude to you from the bottom of my heart,” he said while speaking at a meeting with family members of July uprising victims at the chief adviser’s office (CAO) in Tejgaon today.

Mentioning that the nation, which cannot remember its history, does not prosper as a nation, professor Yunus said: “I always think that the sacrifice of those, for which we get courage to call the country a new Bangladesh, cannot be measured by any criteria.”

During the meeting, professor Yunus called upon the families of the July martyrs and fighters to remain alert so that no violence and clashes can break out in the country.

Liberation war affairs adviser Faruk E Azam, health adviser Nurjahan Begum, information and broadcasting adviser Nahid Islam and special assistant (state minister) professor Md Sayedur Rahman were present on the occasion.

Members of three martyr’s families and three fighters spoke at the meeting and they raised various issues, including the trial of the mass killing, receiving state honours, financial assistance and their rehabilitation.