Khaleda paying martyred intellectuals respect 'a joke', says Hasina

[Riyad]

Today is martyred intellectuals day. Pakistani army killed several Bengali intellectuals (Journalists, novelists, poets, film makers etc) on this day.

Khaleda paying martyred intellectuals respect 'a joke', Hasina says
Senior Correspondent, bdnews24.com

Published: 2015-12-14 18:46:34.0 BdST Updated: 2015-12-14 19:44:19.0 BdST

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s going to pay respects to the martyred intellectuals at the memorial was 'nothing but a joke', Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said.

The prime minister was speaking at a discussion organised by the Awami League to observe Martyred Intellectuals Day on Monday.

"How does she (Khaleda), who made the killers of the intellectuals ministers, pay respect? Is it anything other than a joke?" Hasina asked.

President Md Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Hasina paid their respects to the martyred intellectuals by placing wreaths at the memorial in Mirpur at around 8am.

The BNP chief and her supporters placed wreaths there after 10am.

In the afternoon, Hasina criticised BNP founder late president Ziaur Rahman. "He had created such a situation that he made one feel that achieving independence was a mistake... the War of Independence was a mistake.

"Ziaur Rahman killed 100 soldiers per night. They were freedom fighters. Pakistan thus exacted its revenge for our victory through Ziaur Rahman.

"His wife (Khaleda) is doing the same thing," she added.

Hasina said some freedom fighters had joined Khaleda to pay respects to the martyrs. "They should properly feel ashamed," she said.

She urged the people of the country to register their disgust against those trying to save the war criminals.

"They will also be tried. They are war criminals, too," she said.

In a bloodbath on Dec 14, 1971, two days before Bangladesh snatched victory from Pakistan, the occupation forces and their local collaborators killed Bengali journalists, professors, doctors, engineers and litterateurs in a bid to render the newly emerging nation intellectually bankrupt.

The local forces that were formed to help the Pakistan Army were Razakars, Al-Badr and Al-Shams.

Bangladesh has so far hanged four of the collaborators for committing crimes against humanity during the Liberation War.

They include Al-Badr commander and Jamaat-e-Islami secretary general Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid, who was in Khaleda's cabinet when she was prime minister between 2001 and 2006.

Jamaat chief Matiur Rahman Nizami was also a minister in Khaleda's government. The Appellate Division will issue its verdict on his appeal against his death sentence for war crimes on Jan 6 next year.

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[Sharpshooter12]

Today is martyred intellectuals day. Pakistani army killed several Bengali intellectuals (Journalists, novelists, poets, film makers etc) on this day.

Were they really?? All right if you say so, if Pakistan army in fact did this gruesome act then I strongly condemn it and those who committed these crimes should be punished.

But what do you think should be done about these cases.

1. Prof. Tariqullah, Bengali Department of Choumuhani College, Noakhali, was arrested and then taken before a gathering where he was commanded to recant his support for Pakistan. This man of true faith told his captors that if he was not convinced that Pakistan was created mainly in the interest of the Bengali Muslims and that they still needed the Muslim State of Pakistan in their own interest, he would have joined them. Since that was his faith, he could not recant his support for Pakistan even if it meant death to him. And death he met under a hail of bullet.

2. Maulana Asadullah Shirazi, a former Member of the National Assembly, writer, poet and sufi and the eldest son of the famous poet and Khilafat Leader Ismail Hussain Shirazi, was dragged through the streets of Sirajgonj, with a hook pierced through his nose. After this act of utter barbarity he was killed.

3. Maulvi Farid Ahmed, Vice President of Pakistan Democratic Party and a former Commerce Minister of Pakistan, was detained in Dhaka. While under detention, he was 'whipped first and then his skin was cut by sharp blades and salt was added to his wounds'. After this beastly treatment, he was put to death. His dead body was mutilated and 'desecrated in a wild fury'.

4. Maulana Azharus Sobhan, a prominent alim and the principal of Mithachara Madrasa, Chittagong, was severely flogged breaking several of his bones. "Three of his students were beheaded in his presence. A garland of the heads of three students was put around his neck and he was kept standing for three consecutive days' before he was killed.

5. Syed Sajjad Husain, Vice Chancellor of Dhaka University. Three days after the fall of Dhaka, on 19th December, a band of armed guerrillas raided his private residence, beat up his protesting wife and daughters, broke into his room, and dragged him away to a Mukti Bahini camp. Here he was stripped of all his clothes, except the trousers, beaten black and blue, blindfolded, handcuffed and gagged, and left, tied to a post like an animal, to wait execution the following morning. The next day at dawn his executioners took him to a public square, stabbed him in six places and dealt him a shattering blow on the spine. When he collapsed, bleeding and unconscious, they thought he had died and moved off. He survived miraculously after being rescued by a passer-by who rrecognized him, but remained almost totally paralyses from the waist down for a month and a half. When after some treatment in hospital he partially regained the ability to move about on crutches, the Government had him removed to the Dhaka Central Jail. There he was detained for two years.

And many more stories. They were Bengalis, they were intellectuals, do you condemn their brutal killings and treatment at the hand of your Freedom Fighters?

 

[Stannis Baratheon]

What a pathetic being! Calling her a woman would be an insult to women in Bangladesh and elsewhere.

 

[24 Hours]

What a pathetic being! Calling her a woman would be an insult to women in Bangladesh and elsewhere.

Could you please specify which "her" are you talking about?

 

[Stannis Baratheon]

Could you please specify which "her" are you talking about?

The one that was talking.

 

[chaanmia]

Were they really?? All right if you say so, if Pakistan army in fact did this gruesome act then I strongly condemn it and those who committed these crimes should be punished.

But what do you think should be done about these cases.

1. Prof. Tariqullah, Bengali Department of Choumuhani College, Noakhali, was arrested and then taken before a gathering where he was commanded to recant his support for Pakistan. This man of true faith told his captors that if he was not convinced that Pakistan was created mainly in the interest of the Bengali Muslims and that they still needed the Muslim State of Pakistan in their own interest, he would have joined them. Since that was his faith, he could not recant his support for Pakistan even if it meant death to him. And death he met under a hail of bullet.

2. Maulana Asadullah Shirazi, a former Member of the National Assembly, writer, poet and sufi and the eldest son of the famous poet and Khilafat Leader Ismail Hussain Shirazi, was dragged through the streets of Sirajgonj, with a hook pierced through his nose. After this act of utter barbarity he was killed.

3. Maulvi Farid Ahmed, Vice President of Pakistan Democratic Party and a former Commerce Minister of Pakistan, was detained in Dhaka. While under detention, he was 'whipped first and then his skin was cut by sharp blades and salt was added to his wounds'. After this beastly treatment, he was put to death. His dead body was mutilated and 'desecrated in a wild fury'.

4. Maulana Azharus Sobhan, a prominent alim and the principal of Mithachara Madrasa, Chittagong, was severely flogged breaking several of his bones. "Three of his students were beheaded in his presence. A garland of the heads of three students was put around his neck and he was kept standing for three consecutive days' before he was killed.

5. Syed Sajjad Husain, Vice Chancellor of Dhaka University. Three days after the fall of Dhaka, on 19th December, a band of armed guerrillas raided his private residence, beat up his protesting wife and daughters, broke into his room, and dragged him away to a Mukti Bahini camp. Here he was stripped of all his clothes, except the trousers, beaten black and blue, blindfolded, handcuffed and gagged, and left, tied to a post like an animal, to wait execution the following morning. The next day at dawn his executioners took him to a public square, stabbed him in six places and dealt him a shattering blow on the spine. When he collapsed, bleeding and unconscious, they thought he had died and moved off. He survived miraculously after being rescued by a passer-by who rrecognized him, but remained almost totally paralyses from the waist down for a month and a half. When after some treatment in hospital he partially regained the ability to move about on crutches, the Government had him removed to the Dhaka Central Jail. There he was detained for two years.

And many more stories. They were Bengalis, they were intellectuals, do you condemn their brutal killings and treatment at the hand of your Freedom Fighters?

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