JU students throw trash at pictures of Ghulam Azam, Nizami
"Their place is in the garbage," a student said
A group of Jahangirnagar University students staged an exhibition of photographs of collaborators and anti‑liberation figures and threw trash at them on the occasion of Victory Day.
The programme, titled "Monument of Hatred," was organised by students of the Department of Drama and Dramatics on Tuesday (16 December) in front of the university's old arts building.
"We earned an independent country through the blood of hundreds of thousands of martyrs in the Liberation War. Yet the successors of Razakars and Al‑Badr are now trying to make those who opposed the war as heroes.
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"In protest, on this Victory Day, we staged an exhibition of Razakar photographs and carried out a programme of throwing dirt and garbage at them," one of the organisers said.
On a visit to the spot at around 11am today, this correspondent saw ten photographs of Razakars hung on a pole in front of the university's old arts building. Organisers piled trash beneath the images and placed a dustbin right beside them.
The organisers further said the photographs of Ghulam Azam, Quader Molla, and Motiur Rahman Nizami had beards removed with the help of artificial intelligence (AI).
Muntasir Billah Khan, a student of the Department of Drama and Dramatics and general secretary of Al‑Beruni Hall Union, said that in Bangladesh, the Razakars, Al‑Badr, Al‑Shams, and anti‑Liberation forces "have always been like garbage".
"Their place is in the garbage. Symbolically, their photographs were displayed, and trash was thrown at them," he said.
"In the country we achieved through the great Liberation War, there is no place for the Razakars," he added.
Nabin Kishore Goswami, another student of the Department of Drama and Dramatics, said, "This is a monument of hatred for those who opposed the great Liberation War. The programme was organised as an expression of hatred towards them.
