Bangladesh Afro-Asian People’s Solidarity Organisation, an international
platform against colonialism, on Friday recalled the contributions of
South African anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela to peace.
Speakers
at a commemoration meeting at Dhaka University’s Ramesh Chandra Majumder
arts auditorium said Mandela had given teachings that repression, fear
and threat couldn’t stand in the way of the struggle for establishing
democracy especially for equity and justice in society.
They also
said that Mandela had inspired the freedom fighters during Bangladesh’s
liberation war in 1971. The initiative launched by Mandela would always
instruct the world how to establish peace, they observed.
Post and
telecommunications minister Rashed Khan Menon, writer Selina Hossain,
economist MM Akash and singer Fakir Alamgir, among others, addressed the
meeting, chaired by Bangla Academy chairman professor emeritus
Anisuzzaman. (source)