Celebrating the month of victory - and a note for Barrister Rafiqul Islam
The month of December this year should be a month when the nation take some time to introspect and restropect, to make sure that we as a nation celebrate our success and correct our failures.
The best brains has either been killed by the collaborators of Pakistani Army during our 1971 Liberation War. At the very end of our nine month war, the collarborating forces did the worst crime of the last century. The gathered a great number of living intellectuals and killed them in a planned way so the new born nation can not stand upright. The intellectuals carry the burden of concious of a nation and that burden is very high when a nation has come out of a long armed struggle and where many of the best people have been killed in war.
Those who did kill our intellectuals - did it with a very conscious mind. The deserved to be prosecuted without mercy at the end of the war, they deserve so today. However, we know that is something that we as a nation owe to our liberation war heros. No question about it.
With that background, we want to highlight one single issue today. It is not only the loss of our greatest minds, that caused our current situation. There is another side of the story. What good brains we were left with, they did not do their job. They are not doing their job. We want to highlight one such example today. Many of you may disagree with this viewpoint. We are also sending this article out hesitantly - with a hope that this may trigger something good. Sometimes a good brain need some teaser to act. Hopefully, we are doing exactly that.
While watching a biographical programme on the life of Barrister Rafiqul Islam, it seems that he has some share in almost all the important things that our nation has gone through. Some of those roles will make us proud, but many others would give us a feeling which are not so proud. However, he, it seems, has been a witness to most of the important ups and downs of the legal history of our country.
Right now, he is involved in something that one day might prove to be a low point of his career. After being part of many of the important legal proceedings, he was rightfully saying that he wants to retire from the legal profession after finishing the current assignments.
We would like to humbly suggest one thing to this living legend.
Almost all the misgivings of our nations history can be traced back to the great loss of our greatest sons of the land. Intellectuals who can guide the nation was killed - cowardly.
Then there was another set of intellectuals - who did not do their job. You generation failed to do the right thing. You did not punish those cowards - you did not have the time to prosecute the culprits.
Would you come out public and advise the nation (instead of advising the corrupts) about how to proceed about prosecuting the unpunished criminals of 1971?
That would be a service that nation would remember you for.
You do things when Hasina tells you to do, you do things when Khaleda tells you to do.
Would you volunteer your legal advise to the nation about how to proceed in trying the criminals of 1971? Certainly, you would not get money (in disguise) earned through corruption, in this case. Or a share of illicit power which you so cheerfully described - off course, you are good in sugar coating your stories. But try this one this time. Do it out of good conscious. A good chance to prove your critics wrong.
If you thought some of the ideas are worth of your reading time, please forward it to others. If you have an ear to the columinsts in regular traditional media, please forward it to them. If you have an ear to the journalists and news editors of the electronic media, discuss it with them. Hope they would look at the suggestions and give due diligence.
Thanks for your time,
Innovation Line
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Note: This is a freelance column, published mainly in different internet based forums. This column is open for contribution by the members of new generation, sometimes referred to as Gen 71. If you identify yourself as someone from that age-group and want to contribute to this column, please feel free to contact. Thanks to the group moderator for publishing the article.
We have not seen the Liberation War, but we know if we can free the country from corruption first, we will eventually get to other dreams soon. Because of corruption, we could not even get into information highway for years, let alone other dreams!
This is the kind of article for which we started this column. Because of ongoing mess, a gift from our older generation, we often get diverted. Now that it seems some sanity is returning in Bangladesh, we would try to go back to our original plan.
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