Blue for Peace
Asma Kibria calls for people's unity against bombing
Du Correspondent
Asma Kibria, widow of former finance minister Shah AMS Kibria, yesterday urged the countrymen to unite under the umbrella of their 'Blue for Peace' programme to resist all kinds of bomb attacks in the country.She demanded impartial investigation into all bomb attacks and justice for the killing of Kibria while addressing the 26th 'Blue for Peace' programme at the Central Shaheed Minar. Nearly 100 people joined the half an hour long programme. Asma urged the people to join their next programme on the Kemal Ataturk Avenue on Thursday and in Comilla on September 8. Cultural activist Ramendu Majumder said had the killers of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman been punished, the country would not have faced the dreadful situation and the fundamentalist forces. The fundamentalist forces are consolidating their position under the patronage of the government keeping the progressive forces at bay, Majumder said. He urged the cultural activists to be united to resist the extremists. Among others, late Kibria's four sisters and other family members took part in the programme. Kibria, an Awami League lawmaker, was killed in a grenade attack in his hometown Habiganj on January 27 this year.
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Members of the civil society and family members of slain former finance minister Shah AMS Kibria line up at the Central Shaheed Minar in the city yesterday as part of 'Blue for Peace' programme demanding trial of the killers of Kibria. PHOTO: STAR |
