Bangla wants mortal remains of its war heroes

SHILLONG, JAN 29: The Bangladesh government is keen to transport back the mortal remains of Bangladesh martyrs who were buried in India and hand it over to their families in Bangladesh.

Bangladesh High Commissioner to India Tariq A Karim there are a number of Bangladesh’s heroes who fell on this side (India) during the Bangladesh liberation war and buried in Meghalaya. He, however, informed as the situation does not permit the Bangladesh government to take the mortal remains across to his country, the Bangladesh government is working on a project to facilitate such an eventuality.

Karim told reporters on Thursday, “We are working on a project where some of the mortal remains, those which we can identify, can be transported to their families; it will have huge emotional impact on the people of Bangladesh.”

Karim informed that the project will also explore the possibility of having monuments that the Meghalaya governments and local communities can put up which will become a sort of tourist spot for pilgrimage of the friends and families of the martyrs who have died and buried  here but cannot be transported.”

Karim felt such an initiative will be a tribute to the bonds that tie Bangladesh and the Meghalaya sector of India together through the borders.

It may be mentioned here that Bangladesh has requested India to exhume the mortal remains of its soldiers who died during the 1971 Liberation War and were buried in Indian soil. The Bangladesh government had written to the Indian government that it wants to take the mortal remains of the soldiers to their country so that proper respect to its war heroes can be accorded by burying them in their motherland.- By Our Reporter