Shaheed Janani Jahanra Imam`s death anniversary today

Staff Correspondent: The 21st death anniversary of Shaheed Janani Jahanara Imam, mother of a martyr who spearheaded the movement for trial of the war criminals and imposition of a ban on the politics of anti- liberation forces including Jamaat, is being observed today (Friday).

The brave mother of a martyr Jahanara Imam along with pro-liberation politicians, prominent cultural personalities and intellectuals floated the Ekattorer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee (the committee for annihilation of the killers and collaborators of 1971) on January 19 in 1992.

The Nirmul Committee held symbolic trial of Golam Azam in a Gano Adalat (mass court) at the historic Suhrawardy Udyan on March 26 in 1992 awarding the Jamaat supremo with capital punishment.

After leading the movement for two and a half years, eminent writer and social worker Jahanara Imam breathed her last due to cancer on June 26 in 1994.

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