CA Yunus urges youths to dream of bringing positive changes

Chief Adviser of the interim government Prof Muhammad Yunus today (3 November) urged the young people to make up their minds and dream of bringing a positive change in the country.

"I particularly encourage the young people to make up their mind, figure out and dream. Dream is the beginning of change. If you dream, it will happen. If you do not dream, it will never happen," he said while addressing the members of the National Defence Course and Armed Forces War Course (AFWC) of the National Defence College at his office in Tejgaon, Dhaka.

Greeting the members of the course and wishing them success, he told the youths, "Ask yourself - 'what can I do for the world?' Once you figure out what you want to do, you can get it done because you have that power."

He said the young generation in the planet at present is the most powerful generation in the entire human history. "Not because they are smart enough but because they have enormous technology in their hand."

"If you look at the student revolution, it is all about technology. They [students] could communicate with each other very quickly. They did not have any command structure," Prof Yunus said, adding that the technology is the Aladin's lamp.

About the student-led revolution, he said the young people of the country want to see a new Bangladesh. The young people are not politicians and not pursuing some political goals but they wanted to have a new country for themselves, he added.

Referring to global peace, the Noble Peace Laureate said most of the time, people kill one another in the name of peace. "...but we commit to ourselves every day, all our pronouncements and all our philosophies. We want peace. Peace inside the country, peace among the countries and peace globally."

He said he finds it extremely funny that every government in the world has a defence ministry, literally it is a war ministry, but there is no peace ministry. "If your aim is peace, should not you have a peace ministry?" he questioned.

Observing that people need to protect themselves against attacks, Prof Yunus stressed having both ministries - peace ministry and war ministry - in governments of the world. He also suggested the introduction of peace attacks in foreign relations along with defence attacks.

The chief adviser said it is a self-destructive planet as "we have done everything to just prepare to kill ourselves".

Citing an example, he said people are destroying the environment to destroy the planet. 

"We have created a wrong civilisation - self-destructive civilisation," he said, adding that every day people are destroying the planet.