Unite, resist terrorism
Calling upon all to put up a united resistance against terrorism, President Abdul Hamid yesterday said terrorists have no religion.
"We've to remember that terrorists have no religion. Terrorism is their identity. So, the world must be aware of them, and should be united against them," he said.
The president was addressing the silver jubilee and the seventh national conference of Ekattorer Ghatak-Dalal Nirmul Committee at the Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh (IEB) auditorium.
"The anti-liberation forces are killing people and unleashing terrorism in the country, spreading the poison of communalism in the name of religion in their evil bid to block the country's development and stigmatise the holy religion," he said.
Bangladesh is advancing fast towards achieving the status of a developed country, he said, hoping that if the trend of development continues, the country will be there on the list of developed nations well before 2041.
Not only in Bangladesh, he said, innocent people are also being killed in many countries of Asia, Europe, Africa and North America in the name of religion, caste and ethnicity, forcing millions of people to migrate and be homeless.
Hamid said no religion supports the killing of people, terrorism and destruction while the key message of all religions is welfare of the people and society.
"We must conserve and help flourish our thousand-year-old non-communal spirit and values. We must implement the ideology of our Liberation War," he said.
Urging the young generation to wake up to establish a secular state and make the country free from fundamentalism and terrorism, he said patriotism is not abstract since loving a country means loving its people and nature.
About the war crimes trial, he said the trial of war criminals started just after the country's independence, but it was stopped after the killings of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his associates in 1975.
The president said Sheikh Hasina's government resumed the war crimes trial in 2009, and it continued.
Justice Golam Rabbani and Prof Muntasir Mamun, among others, spoke at the function.
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