Staff Reporter:
Speaker of the Jatiya Sangsad Hafiz Uddin Ahmad, Bir Bikram, yesterday said the July Museum will inspire future generations as it depicts struggle against autocracy.
“The history of the people’s resistance against autocracy will remain preserved as long as this museum exists,” he said while briefing reporters after visiting the July Mass Uprising Memorial Museum in the capital.
The Speaker said the museum has skillfully portrayed the accounts of repression, anarchy and killings during the 16-year rule of what he termed the “autocratic mafia regime” of former prime minister Sheikh Hasina through “staged and controversial elections”.
He said the sacrifices of Abu Sayeed, Mugdha, Wasim and others during the July-August uprising would continue to inspire the nation. Referring to incidents of enforced disappearances during the previous re-gime, he said words of sympathy shown to victims’ families by Sheikh Hasina had become “a stain in history”.
The Speaker noted that the sacrifices made by ordinary people in every democratic and anti-autocracy movement from 1971 to 2024 were unparallel in establishing democracy in the country, said a press re-lease.
“The sacrifices of the masses during the July Mass Uprising will remain an example for the world,” he said adding that the July fighters sacrificed their present for the future of the nation.
Deputy Speaker Barrister Kayser Kamal said the July Mass Uprising Museum symbolizes Bangladesh’s liberation from fascism.
At the briefing, Cultural Affairs Minister Nitai Roy Chowdhury said the July Museum would be opened to the public by the end of July or early August this year.
Director General of the July Museum, members of the curator team, and senior officials from the rele-vant ministries and the Jatiya Sangsad Secretariat were present during the visit.
