Jatiya Kabita Parishad on Tuesday organised a protest rally and a poetry reading session demanding an end to the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
Chaired by its convener Mohon Raihan, the event was held in front of the National Museum in the capital.聽
Poet Asad Kajol, Yusuf Reza, Nahid Hasan, Ismat Ara and Nasrin Islam, among others, read their own poems while the member secretary of the parishad, poet Rezauddin Stalin, anchored the event.
Mohon Raihan said that the Western countries had started hostilities first by creating the state of Israel on the soil of Palestinians in 1948.
鈥楤angladeshi people do not support oppression and after the War of Independence many freedom fighters fought for Palestine,鈥� Mohon said, adding that poets of Bangladesh will write and fight against genocide, inhumanity and discrimination.