Staff correspondent :<\/p>\n
Bangladesh High Commissioner to the United Kingdom<\/p>\n
(UK) Saida Muna Tasneem has called for a fresh motion in the British Parliament to recognize
\nthe 1971 genocide, recalling the early day motion \u2018stopping the genocide in East Bengal and
\nrecognising Bangladesh\u2019 adopted at the British Parliament in June 1971.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is strong documentary and eyewitness evidence that genocide was committed on
\nBangladesh soil in 1971, yet the world has failed to recognise it,\u201d she said in her welcome
\naddress at a high-profile commemorative event at the British Parliament on Bangladesh Genocide
\nDay 2024 hosted by the Bangladesh High Commission in London on Monday.<\/p>\n
According to a message received here today, senior British parliamentarians, eminent academics,
\nlegal experts, freedom fighters and community leaders participated in the commemorative events
\ntitled \u2018Remembering the Bangladesh Genocide 1971: The Road to International Recognition\u2019.<\/p>\n
Tasneem cited several international media reports on the Bengali Genocide, including Anthony
\nMascarenhas’s lead article in The Sunday Times headlined \u2018Genocide\u2019 and similar reports on mass
\natrocities by The Telegraph and BBC that shocked the world and prompted global leaders to act.<\/p>\n
The high commissioner commended the US Congress resolution led by Congressman Ro Khanna
\nand Congressman Steve Chabot, which needs to be emulated in the British parliament.Professor of International Law and Human Rights of the University of Birmingham, Professor
\nMohammad Shahabuddin, said that the 1971 genocide in Bangladesh by the Pakistan army
\nfulfilled all criteria to be recognised by the UN.<\/p>\n
Organiser of the Bangladesh Liberation War Overseas Freedom Movement in the UK, Sultan
\nMahmud Sharif, Freedom Fighter and Study Circle Chair Syed Mozammel Ali, Patron of Oxfam
\nUK Azizur Rahman, President of Sammmilito Sangskirtik Jote UK Golam Mostafa and Director
\nof the Swadhinata Trust Ansar Ahmad Ullah also spoke on the occasion.
\nOne minute of silence was observed at the event to commemorate the \u2018Black Night\u2019 of 25 March
\n1971.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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