Bangladesh: Bhasha Andolon Museum likely to complete work this year

[Harold Schiffman]

Bhasha Andolon Museum likely to complete work this year
Sunday, 03 February 2008
Staff Correspondent

The Bhasha Andolon Museum has initiated the process of making a list
of the heroes of historic language movement in 1952. Names of the
people who had contributions to the language movement but opposed the
war of independence will not be included in the list, the museum
authorities told a news briefing in Dhaka on Saturday. They said they
would try to complete the job by this year and keep in mind about the
controversies over the list of freedom fighters. Urging all concerned
to help complete the list by providing information, they said one
coordinator or more had been appointed in each district to collect the
information. They also placed a seven-point charter of demands at the
briefing.

The demands include formulation of a national language policy,
recognition of the participants in language movement as national
heroes, inducting history of language movement and the biographies of
the language heroes in academic curricula, ensuring teaching of Bangla
language and local culture in English-medium schools, preserving the
rights of language and linguistic culture of the ethnic minorities.
They also demanded inclusion of a provision for placing wreaths at the
Central Shaheed Minar alongside the National Martyrs' Memorial in
state protocol and allocating a piece of land for the construction of
the museum.

Piyari Mahbub, wife of language movement hero late Kazi Golam Mahbub,
addressed the briefing on the museum premises in Dhanmandi Language
movement hero Mirza Mazharul Islam, Abul Kasem Fazlul Huq, and Mili
Rahman, wife of Bir Shreshtha Matiur Rahman, were present, among
others, at the briefing. They regretted that even eight years after
the declaration of International Mother Language Day, no official
publication introducing the story behind declaration had yet been
made. They also informed that the museum authorities had translated a
book on their own and were making arrangements for distributing it
across the world.


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