War criminal trials in Bangladesh

[Kinetic]

Successive Jamaat chiefs are the people those lead killing of hundreds of intellectuals and thousands of general Bangladeshis during its independence war. If you read his words for every attempt to hold trial of war criminals led them to bring India in everything. No here is two facts,

1) There were massacres and war crimes done by Rajakars, Al-Badr, Al-Shams.

2) Govt of BD is trying to hold trial of war criminals.

When there is a crime there should be a punishment and the govt is doing its job. Now what is interesting is that how they see India in everything. Why India? Because the wanted to eliminate entire intellectuals and educated people of BD during 1971 and India shamed it. They still didn't forget that. You can see in various way they are showing their hatred towards India!!! They are bringing India in many internal problems of BD. Now why so much India phobia? Because they still could ot get rid of 1971 nightmares and the govt's attempt to trial them for massacre, so to divert people's attention toward a 'common India hatred'.

In short, those people did the war crime are the same people see India in everything (India phobia) and for them the govt which won more than 3/4th of the constituencies are 'the stooges' of India because they want the trial of those criminals. If BD become enemy of India, they gain everything.


War trial to vanish into thin air Boasts Mojaheed

Staff Correspondent

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

The government move to hold trial of war criminals is futile as it is based on lies, Jamaat Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammed Mojaheed has claimed.

"The issue of war crimes trial is based on lies. We do not care about it," he told journalists at the party's Moghbazar office yesterday.

Mojaheed claimed people have no interest in the trial. The government is using the issue as a tool to harass Jamaat activists and hide its failure to ensure smooth supply of gas, electricity and water.



The Jamaat leader said his party is not taking the matter seriously.

He alleged that the ruling party has engaged its associated body Jubo League to repress Jamaat.

He said the move to try war criminals is nothing but a conspiracy by the ruling party and its local and foreign allies.

The government wants to turn the country into a dysfunctional state by allowing India to use Bangladesh's ports.

Awami League is now trying to divert people's attention to "farcical trial of war criminals" from national issues.

He said not only BNP and Jamaat but the whole nation will unite against the government attempt to cash in on the issue of war crimes trial.

Mojaheed was the chief of Al-Badr that collaborated with Pakistan occupation forces. He and some of his party men were allegedly involved in war crimes during the 1971 Liberation War.

War trial to vanish into thin air

 

[Kinetic]

Now see what is Jamaat and why they got that anti-India mentality.....

1971 killing of Bengali intellectuals - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Here is Mr. Ghulam Azam, the founding father of Jamaat........ From first he was hardcore anti-BD and after two decades of independence he was not recognised as Bangladeshis. In the meanwhile he tried his best to harm BD and convince others not to help BD. Now if those people come and become 'savior' of BD from 'Indian hegemoney' isn't that something funny........

Ghulam Azam

Ghulam Azam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ghulam Azam (Bengali: গোলাম আয&#2478 (born 7 November 1922), is a Bangladeshi political leader who is regarded in his country as a war criminal of the Liberation War of Bangladesh.[1] The former Ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh, he opposed the independence of Bangladesh during and after the 1971 war and led the formation of Shanti Committee, Razakar and Al-Badr to thwart the Mukti Bahini that fought for independence.[2][3][4] He also lobbied against the acknowledgment of new-born Bangladesh after 1971 with a opened demand called 'Bangladesh Na Manjoor' (Bangladesh not approved). During this activity Ghulam Azam sent requests to Middle Eastern countries to deny recognition to Bangladesh. This continued until the late 1980s.[5]

He was a permanent resident of England until 1978, and maintained Pakistani citizenship until 1994 due to the decision by the Bangladeshi government at the time to refuse him citizenship. From 1978 to 1994 he lived in Bangladesh illegally without any authorized Bangladeshi visa. In 1994, the Supreme Court upheld the decision to restore his citizenship of Bangladesh as a matter of birth-right. He was the leader of Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh until 2000.

Early initiatives with Shanti Committee

During the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971, Azam played a central role in the formation of Peace Committees, which declared the independence movement to be a conspiracy hatched by India.[2] Azam was one of the founding members of this organization.[2] After Operation Searchlight, Pakistani forces lost control of Bangladesh. To help control this situation the Pakistan Army set up a network of peace committees superimposed upon the normal civil administration as the army could not rely upon the local Bengali administration. The Peace Committee members were drawn from Azam's Jamaat-e-Islami, the Muslim League and Biharis. The Peace Committee served as a front for the army, informing on the civil administration as well as the general public. They were also in charge of confiscating and redistribution of shops and lands from Hindu and pro-independence Bengalis, mainly relatives and friends of Mukti Bahini fighters. Almost 10 million Bangladeshis fled to neighboring India as refugees. The Shanti Committee also recruited Razakars, who were common criminals who had thrown their lots with the army.[9]

On April 12, 1971, Azam and Matiur Rahman Nizami led demonstrations denouncing the independence movement as an Indian conspiracy.


Forming Razakars and Al-Badr

During Azam's leadership of Jamaat-e-Islami, Ashraf Hossain, a leader of Jamaat's student wing Islami Chhatra Sangha, created the Al-Badr militia in Jamalpur District on 22 April, 1971.[3] Current Jamaat Ameer (supreme leader) Matiur Rahman Nizami was the supreme commander of this militia. Nizami was a leader of Islami Chhatra Shongha then.

Also, in May, 1971, another Jamaat leader Mawlana Yusuf, a subordinate to Azam, created the Razakar militia in Khulna. The first recruits included 96 Jamaat party members, who started training in an Ansar camp at Shahjahan Ali Road, Khulna.


Late anti-independence activities

During the war Azam traveled the then West Pakistan to consult the Pakistani leaders.[12] On June 20, 1971, Azam declared in Lahore that the Hindu minority in East Pakistan, under the leadership of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, are conspiring to secede from Pakistan. He also said in Rawalpindi that the actions of the Pakistan Army in Operation Searchlight were justified in order to preserve the unity of the country. Azam declared that his party (Jamaat) is trying its best to curb the activities of pro-independence "Miscreants".[13] Azam took part in meetings with General Yahiya Khan, the military dictator of Pakistan, and other military leaders, to organize the campaign against Bangladeshi independence.

On August 12, 1971, Azam declared in a statement published in the Daily Sangram that "the supporters of the so-called Bangladesh Movement are the enemies of Islam, Pakistan, and Muslims".

The military junta of Yahya Khan decided to call an election in an attempt to legitimise themselves. So, on October 12, 1971 Yahya Khan declared that an election will be held from November 25 to December 9. Ghulam Azam decided to take part in this election. On October 15, the Pakistani government suddenly declared that 15 candidates were elected without any competition. According to the declaration of November 2 as many as 53 candidates were elected without any competition. In this election Azam's Jamaat won 14 of the uncontested seats.


Fleeing from Bangladesh

Ghulam Azam wrote some of his activities of 9 months of the war in his biography Jibone Ja Dekhlam (What I have seen in life). According to his book, Azam claims that he was on way to Dhaka from West Pakistan on 3 December when midway through the flight, the plane changed direction to Saudi Arabia because of the formation of India-Bangladesh joint force against Pakistan. A few weeks later East Pakistan emerged as newly independent country Bangladesh and Ghulam Azam along with his political party Jamaat-e-Islami was banned by new country's government and Azam's Bangladesh citizenship was cancelled.[citation needed] However, New York Times reported that Azam left East Pakistan due to his opposition to the independence movement. he is a very controvesial man.

Years in exile

After the war, the Bangladesh government declared the newly independent country to be secular, and mandated separation of religion from the state, and therefore sought to remove the influence of religious fundamentalists from national life, and religion based political parties were banned. In addition, the Jamaat and its leaders, because they were seen as guilty of collaboration with the Pakistan occupation forces during the Bangladesh Liberation War, were similarly restricted from participation in the new country's political scenario. On 18 April, 1973 the government revoked the citizenship of Ghulam Azam and thirty-eight other collaborators of Pakistan Army[18]. Azam refused an offer of amnesty from the then Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Mujibur Rahman to return to Bangladesh and renounce Jamaat politics,[citation needed] choosing to live in exile in Pakistan and England until 1978, when President Ziaur Rahman restored multi-party democratic system, Jamaat re-launched itself, seizing the opportunity, and soon Ghulam Azam returned to Bangladesh on a temporary visa. While in Pakistan, he was a leader of what was left of the Pakistani branch of the Jamaat.

Anti-Bangladesh Lobbying after 1971

After the victory of the Joint forces of the Indian Army and Mukti Bahini over Pakistan on 16 December, 1971 a new nation named Bangladesh was born. Azam continued his anti-Bangladesh and pro-Pakistan activities even after 1971. He tried to convince many political leaders of Middle-East and Pakistan not to support the new born nation. A complete description of these lobbies are found in the writings of Dhaka University Professor Anisuzzaman.[5] Mr. Anisuzzaman submitted all the allegations against Golam Azam to the People's Court in 1992. People's Court was established as a mass movement to try war criminals and anti-independence activists by Jahanara Imam and others. Jahanara Imam held this unprecedented Peoples' Court as a symbolic trial of Ghulam Azam where thousands of people gathered and the court gave verdict that Azam's offenses committed during the Liberation War deserved capital punishment.[19]

According to Prothom Alo, three intellectuals submitted allegations of war crimes against Ghulam Azam. The activities regarding Bengali culture were submitted by Syed Shamsul Huq, alleged war crimes during 1971 were detailed by Borhanuddin Khan Jahangir and his pro-Pakistan lobbying after 1971 was detailed by Anisuzzaman.[5] Notable pro-Pakistan lobbying of Ghulam Azam after 1971 are as follows:[5]

1. After the liberation of Bangladesh Azam, staying in Pakistan, created an organization named Purbo Pakistan Punoruddhar Committee (East Pakistan Revival Committee) along with anti-Bangladesh activists like Mahmud Ali. Azam tried to strengthen the international movement to re-establish East Pakistan. Accordingly he kept claiming himself as the Ameer of East Pakistan Jamaat-e-Islami many years after the elimination of East Pakistan.

2. In 1972, Azam formed Purbo Pakistan Punoruddhar Committee in London and conspired with others to replace Bangladesh with East Pakistan. In 1973, he lectured against Bangladesh in the annual conference of Federation of Students' Islamic Societies held in Manchester and conference of UK Islamic Commission held in Lester. In 1974, he arranged a meeting of Purbo Pakistan Punoruddhar Committee with Pakistanis like Mahmud Ali. As they had already failed to establish a Pakistan within Bangladesh, they decided to lead their movement towards the formation of a confederation combining Bangladesh and Pakistan. In this meeting Azam explained the necessity of working for the movement within Bangladesh though it was a bit risky then. In, 1977 in a meeting held in the Holy Trinity Church College, Azam expressed it again. He came to Bangladesh in 1978 with a Pakistani passport and Bangladeshi visa only to make his dream of Pakistan-Bangladesh confederation come true.

3. Ghulam Azam participated in the International Islamic Youth Conference held in Riyad in 1972 and begged the help of all Muslim countries to re-establish East Pakistan. From 1973 to 1976 he met Saudi King seven times and asked him not to acknowledge Bangladesh and never to help this country by any means. He lectured against Bangladesh again in the international conference arranged by Rabeta-e-Alam Al-Islami in Mecca in 1974 and at King Abdul Aziz University in 1977.

4. Azam lobbied against the acknowledgment of new born Bangladesh in the conference of Foreign ministers of the Muslim countries held in Bengazi in 1973. In the same year he lectured in the Islamic Youth Conference held in Tripoli which was clearly against the independence and sovereignty of Bangladesh.

5. In 1973 Ghulam Azam urged everybody to participate in the movement of combining Bangladesh with Pakistan in the annual conference of Muslim Students' Association of America and Canada held at Michigan State University.

6. Azam lectured against Bangladesh again in 1977, in the international conference of Islamic Federation of Students' Organizations held at Istanbul.

 

[KS]

now many of the BD members (i dont want to name them) will not be seen after the trials start to take place.


Btw this is an interesting read :

Jamaat - A threat to Bangladesh

 

[KS]

Jamaat’s politics of hatemongering, discrimination and violence

Those who led the bleeding of innocent civilians, raping of women must be tried: we must compel the government to bring the collaborators to justice. The future of liberty, democracy, peace and stability in Bangladesh largely depends on the trial of the perpetrators of the genocide in 1971. We must resist any attempt by the government and/or any interest group to legitimise Jamaat’s politics of hatred, violence, and discrimination in our democratic process, writes ABM Nasir.

WHEN Karl Rueger, an ultranationalist renowned for his hatred against the ethnic and religious minority and abhorrence for individual liberty, won the mayoral election of Vienna, Austria in 1895, it shook the foundation of emerging liberty in Europe (Fareed Zakaria, 2003, The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad, p59-60). The emperor Franc Joseph I of Habsburg, fearing that Rueger’s induction would jeopardise the future of liberty, refused to recognise him as the elected mayor. Despite his indignation, the emperor eventually had to submit to the choice of majority and recognise Rueger as the mayor. Much later the emperor’s fear was vindicated. The emperor had rightly feared that Rueger’s intention, as ingrained in his ideology, was not to promote the virtues of democracy and liberty but to exploit the democratic process to promote his ultra-nationalism. Rueger’s induction later led to the ascent of the Fascists and the Nazis, respectively, to the Italian and German political powers as organised minority albeit through democratic election.

The Fascists (1922-1943) and the Nazis’ (1933-1945) ascent to the political powers can be attributed, inter alia, to three important factors: (i) the failure of the political establishments in Italy and Germany to live up to the expectation of the people; (ii) the rise of ultra-nationalism; and (iii) the activism of the extremely organised propaganda machines and dedicated foot soldiers deployed by both the Fascists and the Nazis to undermine the credibility of the politicians and dismantle the political establishments.

Once ascended to power, both the Fascists and the Nazis continued their onslaught on individual liberty and democratic institutions. They unleashed the infamous Black Shirts and Gestapo to suppress the voices of freedom. About 20 years of Fascist rule in Italy and 12 years of Nazi rule in Germany ended up with the greatest human disaster in history, the World War II, which annihilated 50 million people across the world including the massacre of six million Jews by the Nazis.

The turn of the event in the history now proves that Karl Rueger, who abhorred individual liberty, democratic values, religious harmony and diversity, should never have been allowed to participate in the democratic process in the first place.

In Bangladesh, Jamaat-e-Islami is the reincarnation of the Fascists of Italy and the Nazis of Germany. Its antipathy like that of Karl Ruegar toward democracy and liberty, its penchant for organised violence similar to those of Black Shirts and Gestapo, and its discriminatory principles against religious minority like that of Nazis are causes for serious concern. The reasons that should have prohibited Karl Ruegar from participating in the democratic process equally apply to Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh. At least four compelling reasons would justify why Jamaat must be rejected from participating in the democratic process. These reasons are as follows.

First, Jamaat-e-Islami doesn’t believe in democracy or any form of godless materialism. The excerpt ‘Muslims who form the overwhelming majority will not tolerate secularism, socialism, capitalism or godless materialism’ (Abbas Ali Khan, Jamaat-e-Islami’s views on defence of Bangladesh, p4) bears testimony to this effect. A political party or any organization which doesn’t believe in democracy must be cast out from the democratic process.

Second, Jamaat’s view on political participation is discriminatory. Once ascended to political power, Jamaat will not hesitate to restrict or even deny the rights of religious minorities and women, thereby degrading their status to second-class citizens. This fear is rightly justified when one reads the following passage extracted from the article ‘An Introduction to the Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh’. The passage reads: ‘Any sane and adult person can become a Member of the Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh if he or she accepts the basic creed of the Jamaat-e-Islami as his or her own creed, accepts the aims and objects of the Jamaat-e-Islami as his or her own aims and objects, pledges to fulfil the demands of the constitution of the Jamaat-e-Islami, performs the obligatory duties ordained by Islam’ (An Introduction to Jamaat-e-Islami; Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami). Jamaat’s creed being the belief in Islam, for any non-Muslim aspiring to hold political office under Jamaat’s hegemony must submit to the creed of Jamaat-e-Islami. Such membership criterion is discriminatory, exclusive and unconstitutional. Any form of forced exclusion is anti-democratic. And, by requiring individuals to submit to the belief of any particular religion to be eligible to participate in the political process is against the country’s constitution. Therefore, Jamaat is working against the constitution and must not be allowed to participate in the political process.

Third, Jamaat’s ultra-nationalistic view is anti-democratic and is a threat to the regional peace and stability. Jamaat’s ultra-nationalistic view, similar to those of Karl Ruegar, Mussolini and Hitler, is reflected in the statement ‘the psychology of the defence forces in Bangladesh must be anti-Indian’ (Abbas Ali Khan, Jamaat-e-Islami’s views on defence of Bangladesh, p4). Such jingoistic attitude is a serious threat to the regional peace and stability of South Asia.

Fourth, in 1971, Jamaat not only opposed to the creation of Bangladesh, but it collaborated with the Pakistani army in perpetrating one of the worst genocides in the world history. Jamaat’s crime against humanity led to the death of three million civilians and rape of more than 200,000 women and destruction of billions of dollars worth of properties. It’s leadership including Golam Azam, Motiur Rahman Nizami, Ali Ahsan Mujahidi, Kamaruzzam, Delawar Hossain Saidi have never been tried in the court of law for committing such a heinous crime. Nor have they ever apologised for their opposition to the creation of Bangladesh. In contrast, they are thriving and constantly resorting to shenanigans to rub their dirty and bloody hands off their complicity in the crime against humanity and treacherous acts against the creation of Bangladesh. On October 28, 2006, the way few hundred armed Jamaat cadres stood up against thousands of angry opposition activists can be reminiscent of the way a few members of the black shirts used to dismantle political rallies during the Fascist rule in Italy. The thousands of rounds of bullets that came out of the guns of Jamaat cadres on that day indicates how ferocious Jamaat’s foot soldiers can get, even today, to protect their fervent belief from being strolled or discredited.

All these indicate that hatemongering, discrimination, and violence have always been the principle strategies of Jamaat’s politics to rise to political office. A political party whose strategy and politics is based on such principles is anti-democratic and must be rejected.

If we are to learn any lessons from the consequences of the Fascist and Nazi rules, then, to protect democracy and liberty, we must stop the recurrence of the same in Bangladesh. We must constantly remind citizens of the country that Bangladesh is born out of the sacrifice of millions. Those who led the bleeding of innocent civilians, raping of women must be tried: we must compel the government to bring the collaborators to justice. The future of liberty, democracy, peace and stability in Bangladesh largely depends on the trial of the perpetrators of the genocide in 1971. We must resist any attempt by the government and/or any interest group to legitimise Jamaat’s politics of hatred, violence, and discrimination in our democratic process. If we fail to resist the Jamaatification of the institutions of the country, Bangladesh will fall into the grip of the forces of darkness of middle age.

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[KS]

Jamaat-e-Islam and its anti-liberation role in 1971


The comments made by former bureaucrat Shah Abdul Hannan, coming as they did on the heels of similar comments from the Jamaat-e-Islam Secretary-General Mohammad Mujahid, on our glorious Liberation War of 1971 should have triggered a tsunami across the political land mass of Bangladesh by now for the simple reason that there would have been no Bangladesh today had there been no Liberation War in 1971. There should have been country-wide agitation, with people protesting their remarks.

We heard a judiciously guarded patriotic comment from former chief justice Mostafa Kamal, and a soldierly, patriotic outburst from Maj Gen Syed Muhammad Ibrahim, a retired valiant freedom fighter, through the courtesy of The Daily Star.

Why this audacity from the anti-liberation forces? This needs a bit of explaining.

Thanks to our rulers, for whom capturing political power has been the be-all and end-all of their lives, the true history of our Liberation War, the finest hour of our history and the brightest star on our national firmament, has not been put across to our people, particularly the post-independence generations. Our politicians have been too busy with who declared the independence of Bangladesh and who raised the flag of Bangladesh first, and who should be lionised for this.

I wish they could stop here. But no. From Ziaur Rahman onward all our rulers, without exception, have soft-pedaled with regard to the defeated anti-liberation political forces of 1971 in general and the Jamaat-e-Islam in particular.

It was none other than a valiant freedom fighter like late Ziaur Rahman who, in his bid to capture and consolidate political power, picked up from the dustbin of history all the anti-liberation forces, particularly the Jamaat-e-Islam, which was banned as a political outfit soon after our liberation, and gave them political space in order to counter and whittle down the Awami League, the dominant political force at that time.

Many of those who opposed our independence and our Liberation War in 1971 were made senior minister, prime minister and cabinet ministers by Zia ur Rahman. He, on advice from these politicians, changed the constitution by supplanting secularism as one of the four guiding principles of the constitution by religion based politics in the country. He allowed the Jamaat-e-Islam chief Golam Azam, who had gone into hiding in Pakistan, to return to Bangladesh.

Ershad, the dictator, picked up the thread from Zia and took many steps to appease the anti-liberation forces.

Sheikh Hasina, daughter of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the architect of this sovereign nation, was too busy planning her political future, and chose not to touch the anti-liberation forces. And Khaleda Zia, true to her late husband's political doctrine, threw open her slender arms and embraced the Jamaat-e-Islam and all other anti-liberation forces as partners in governing this country.

This is how Jamaat-e-Islam has gained enough political clout and muscle over the years to reach a stage where its leaders like Mujahid, and like-minded Shah Hannan, could dare throw down the gauntlet and say openly that what we proudly called our glorious Liberation War was nothing more than a civil war, and that no war criminals ever existed in 1971, nor do they exist now.

Let us not forget that soon after Zia politically rehabilitated Jamaat-e-Islami, its official stance was that the party did not make any mistake in 1971, and that it did what it considered right at that time by upholding the ideology of a united Pakistan. This did amply imply that Jamaat-e-Islam did not recognise our Liberation War and our independence from Pakistan in 1971.

Like Pakistan, Jamaat-e-Islam slandered our heroic fight for independence as an Indian engineered conspiracy to break Pakistan. But the Jamaat leadership, at any level, never said so emphatically and so openly as it has done now that there was no Liberation War in 1971 and that no war criminals ever existed in 1971, nor do they exist now.

Let there be no mistaking that Jamaat-e-Islam has adopted a well thought out posture vis-à-vis our glorious Liberation War of 1971. It did not recognise our Liberation War in 1971. Nor does it recognise it now, even after 36 years of our existence as an independent country. What we call, and often proudly refer to as, our glorious War of Liberation of 1971 was, and still is, a civil war in the political history of Pakistan.

True, from the Pakistani perspective it was a civil war fought between the Pakistan nationalist forces led by the Pakistan armed forces and the dissident secessionist nationalist forces of East Pakistan represented by the Mukti Bahini and the freedom loving people of this country, minus a paltry number of Jamaat-e-Islam cum Muslim League adherents who aligned themselves with and swore their allegiance to Pakistan.

It is an irony of fact, but it is true, that while all the defeated anti-liberation political forces of 1971 in this country in general, and Jamaat-e-Islam in particular, have been enjoying full political freedom in this country, they continue to show their trans-border loyalty and allegiance to Pakistan by toeing the Pakistani policy of calling our Liberation War a civil war and denying that a genocide was committed by the Pakistan occupation forces in 1971, while the whole world witnessed the saga of our heroic war for liberating this country from the Pakistani bondage and the Pyrrhic victory we achieved in the end.

It is a shame that a section of our own people, coming from this soil hallowed by the blood of the best martyred manhood of our nation, should find it fit to distance themselves from the mainstream of our freedom loving people, gloat over being the collaborators of the Pakistani occupation army in committing heinous war crimes like genocide and dishonouring of our women folks, and belittle the heroic resolve and sacrifice of millions of our people for freedom from Pakistani bondage.

As a citizen, and as a man with a humble contribution in our glorious War of Liberation, I fully endorse the sentiments expressed by Gen Muhammad Ibrahim in his write up on this issue. I would only wish to add a footnote to what he has so eloquently and so poignantly suggested to address this problem of paramount national importance.

A wound like this -- the presence of anti-liberation political elements in the body politic of this country -- will only keep festering if we do not administer proper treatment to cure it permanently. I am hundred percent sure that our major political players would not like to touch this wound and cure it. It has to be done by this non-political, pro-people and pro-democracy interim government, with the full backing by the rejuvenated civil administration, the new look judiciary, the valiant armed forces, and the freedom loving people of this country, particularly the surviving freedom fighters.

In the preamble to our constitution, it has been mentioned in unambiguous terms that the fundamental principles of the constitution inspired our heroic people to dedicate themselves to, and our brave martyrs to sacrifice their lives for, the war of national independence. It has also been clearly stated that the people of Bangladesh, having proclaimed their independence on March 26 1971, established the independent, sovereign People's Republic of Bangladesh through a historic war for national independence.

There is therefore no way for any one to deny the War of Independence or Liberation of 1971. Nor is there any scope for any one to deny that our brave martyrs did sacrifice their lives in the War of Independence or Liberation.

Nowhere in the constitution does it say that civil war was fought in this country leading to emergence of Bangladesh as an independent and sovereign country in 1971. Therefore, those people who deny our War of Independence/Liberation of 1971, in fact, deny the very legitimacy of their claim as citizens of this country. So, my humble suggestion to this government and to our Election Commission is as follows:

* Enact a law stipulating that any political party or any person denying our War of Independence/Liberation of 1971 and calling it a civil war and denying the existence of war criminals in the country in 1971, shall be debarred permanently from taking part in any parliamentary election or any local government election or from being a minister or advisor or from holding any office of profit in the People's Republic of Bangladesh.

* Enact a law forbidding any political party or any person known to have opposed actively or in any other manner our War of Independence/Liberation, and of having collaborated actively with the Pakistan occupation army in committing acts of violence or war crime like wanton killing of civilians and rape of women folks in 1971, from participation in any parliamentary election or any local government election.

It is a pity that we, the freedom loving people of this country, particularly the freedom fighters, have splintered while the need was to close our ranks. This has helped the anti-liberation political forces to move from strength to strength. We have to fight these forces, not merely because they have denied the very existence of our glorious Liberation War and our sacrifice to attain independence in 1971 but also because their Taliban like obscurantist politics represent a potential threat to peace and harmony in this tiny Muslim majority country and in this region as a whole.

Brig Gen Shamsuddin Ahmed is a former Military Secretary to the President of Bangladesh.


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[Kinetic]

The main point is when there is an attempt of trial of the war criminals they attack India, why?!!!!! Its lie there was no massacre or no one did it and those people died themselves.....

 

[occult]

nice share man, but didn hav the time to read it all....wats the issue with india?

 

[Kinetic]

nice share man, but didn hav the time to read it all....wats the issue with india?

When the govt trying to hold trial, the Jamaat chief which was also one of the collaborator of the massacre is seeing 'Indian hand' here!!!! I am trying to find why always anti-BD people in BD see 'Indian hand' in everything.

I am repeating my earlier comment, you can read it....

Here is Mr. Ghulam Azam, the founding father of Jamaat........ From first he was hardcore anti-BD and after two decades of independence he was not recognised as Bangladeshis. In the meanwhile he tried his best to harm BD and convince others not to help BD. Now if those people come and become 'savior' of BD from 'Indian hegemoney' isn't that something funny........

Successive Jamaat chiefs are the people those lead killing of hundreds of intellectuals and thousands of general Bangladeshis during its independence war. If you read his words for every attempt to hold trial of war criminals led them to bring India in everything. No here is two facts,

1) There were massacres and war crimes done by Rajakars, Al-Badr, Al-Shams.

2) Govt of BD is trying to hold trial of war criminals.

When there is a crime there should be a punishment and the govt is doing its job. Now what is interesting is that how they see India in everything. Why India? Because the wanted to eliminate entire intellectuals and educated people of BD during 1971 and India shamed it. They still didn't forget that. You can see in various way they are showing their hatred towards India!!! They are bringing India in many internal problems of BD. Now why so much India phobia? Because they still could ot get rid of 1971 nightmares and the govt's attempt to trial them for massacre, so to divert people's attention toward a 'common India hatred'.

In short, those people did the war crime are the same people see India in everything (India phobia) and for them the govt which won more than 3/4th of the constituencies are 'the stooges' of India because they want the trial of those criminals. If BD become enemy of India, they gain everything.

 

[occult]

bro...all we, the people of bangladesh, want is that to see the rakar's hang to death....people who were and are against our independence....that cud be anyone....

 

[Al-zakir]

Why you bharati keep making new thread on same issue. Do you people have nothing better in hand then put your nose in our business? Get a life.

 

[psychedelic_renegade]

Hahaha some people are afraid that BD govt will put a noose on them if they able to catch them, aha! ;-)

 

[Kinetic]

Why you bharati scums keep making new thread on same issue. Do you moron has nothing better in hand then put your mushrik nose in our business? Get a lie you looser.

Dekho jalan ho raha hein...... see his language.

'Our business'!!! You kill BD people and that is your business!!! Your are the same one that was defending the rajakars those killed intellectuals and ordinary BD people? BD govt will kill all the coward rajakars who kill unarmed civilians but when see a military run away. They also managed to destroy killers of Sheikh Mujib.

Your beloved rajar bought India here.... see........

"He said the move to try war criminals is nothing but a conspiracy by the ruling party and its local and foreign allies.

The government wants to turn the country into a dysfunctional state by allowing India to use Bangladesh's ports."

Next Mr. Motiur Rahman Nizami

Motiur Rahman Nizami

Jamaat and Al-Badr activist

Nizami rose in the ranks of the Jamaat-e-Islami in East Pakistan in the 1960s, after being a leader of a student organization, Islamic Chhatro Shango (now Islami Chhatro Shibir). During the liberation war of 1971, Nizami actively supported the cause of West Pakistan and formed the Al-Badr Force in which he acted as the supreme commander of the Al-Badr Militia.[1][2] As the leader of Al-Badr, Nizami advocated deadly violence against minority Hindus, and in an article in the Daily Sangram published in 14 November 1971, Nizami claimed, "It is our conviction that the day is not far off when, standing side by side with our armed forces, our youth will raise the victorious flag of Islam the world over by defeating the Hindu Army and finishing off Hindustan". Nizami was then well known as "Moitya Rajakar (মইত্যা রাজাকা&#2480" for his anti-liberation activities.

The Al-Badr militia took active part in rape, extortion, loot and specially capturing and killing of Bangladeshis who supported the liberation, including a pre-planned massacre on December 14, 1971, when the Al-Badr militia along with Pakistan Army rounded up hundreds of doctors, professors, writers, and other Bengali intellectuals, and executed them. Al-Badar militia also helped Pakistany forces to fight against the Freedom Fighters of Bangladesh Liberation War.

War crimes

During the Bangladesh Liberation War, he acted as the supreme commander of the Al-Badr militia, which had taken part in various war crimes including killing of hundreds of intellectuals around the country.

Motiur Rahman Nizami - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Kinetic]

bro...all we, the people of bangladesh, want is that to see the rakar's hang to death....people who were and are against our independence....that cud be anyone....

Agreed. But they are trying their best to destroy BD and making us enemies. After so many years of independence Ghulam Azam tried his best to harm BD all the way possible but still he could n't be prosecuted along with other rajakars! BD govt should do this very soon, otherwise they may be successful in their way to make friends into enemies.

 

[KS]

Why you bharati scums keep making new thread on same issue. Do you moron has nothing better in hand then put your mushrik nose in our business? Get a lie you looser.

First tell that to ur looser Jamaati razakar colleague Idune..whio is polluting the India defence section with his crap.

If that is valid...this is double valid.

 

[Kinetic]

First tell that to ur looser Jamaati razakar colleague Idune..whio is polluting the India defence section with his crap.

If that is valid...this is double valid.

dude they are not looser, they are totally destroyed. they are cornered in their own land for massacring innocent civilians. thats why they got India phobia. watch that when the BD govt trying to grill jamaat chief for war crimes he set a fire against India. very common way among jamaats. every jamaat is an AL basher also automatically a India hater for some unknown reason!