Homage to War heroine, Bangladeshi Sculptor Ferdousi Priyabhashini - Inspiration of Women's Courage and Hope. Happy woman's day!
F reedom fighter Ferdousi Priyabhashini remade her life and inspired many more. She was the first one to publicly announce herself as Birangana - Woman of War. In 2000, at the Tokyo Tribunal , a people’s tribunal organized by Asian women and human rights organizations, she explained why she decided to speak up: “I saw that the history of the liberation war was being altered and the torture of women was being forgotten, and I decided I will speak up. If I speak of my experiences, a space will open up, women will learn how to fight." - Priyabhashini Ferdousi Priyabhashini was a Bangladeshi sculptor . Fifty years ago in the winter month of December 1971, 23-year-old woman was freed from the clutches of her Pakistani captors, the rape survivors after the 1971 independence war ended, a curtain of silence had fallen over the topic. One of the first women to go public about her experience of being raped during the 1971 independence war and who spoke out for thousands of vict...