--- In Shadeshi_Bondhu@yahoogroups.com, Orchee <orcheea@...> wrote:
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> i admit that we can't just throw them out of the country (which I
wud LOVE to do)
> but atleast we can point them out. they should be out on the
media everywhere. Protiti Bangladeshir manobik odhikar eder k jana
abong era jeye ki...sheta jana.
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> "R@kiB" <rakib.exe@...> wrote:
> tomar sathe ami ekmot api...
> tobe eder upojukto bichar howa banchoniyo...
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> On 10/29/07, Orchee <orcheea@...> wrote: ei rajakar
guli k ghar dhaka diey eber kore dauwa uchit. n we all noe that.
funny keye kau korche na
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> "R@kiB" < rakib.exe@...> wrote:
> History speaks up
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> Pak forces and their collaborators killed top
intellectuals at the fag end of Liberation War. This picture was
taken from Rayer Bazar area on Dec 17, 1971.
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> After 36 years of independence Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh now
denies its anti-liberation role when history speaks volumes about how
its leaders and workers collaborated with the occupying Pakistan
forces in mass killings, rape, looting and numerous other atrocities.
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> The remarks that Jamaat Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad
Mojaheed made to the press after the electoral talks with the
Election Commission Thursday has left people across the country
stunned.
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> Former chief justice and chairman of the Law Commission Mostafa
Kamal yesterday told The Daily Star, "Now it is being said that no
war criminal exists in the country. Maybe after some time it would be
said that the Liberation War never took place. All this will mean we
will be deprived of the real history."
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> The war criminals have dared to make the audacious claim thanks to
years of indifference to the demand for action against them, many
observed.
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> Jamaat's active role against the independence has been documented
in different publications including those by Jamaat itself during the
war in 1971.
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> Thousands of people still bear the scars of war crimes by Jamaat-e-
Islami and their student front Islami Chhatra Shangha (now known as
Islami Chhatra Shibir), and some other groups such as Muslim League
and Nizam-e Islami.
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> The incumbent Jamaat secretary general on Thursday told
reporters, "In fact, anti-liberation forces never even existed."
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> At a rally in observance of 'Badr Day' on November 7, 1971,
Mojaheed, who was president of East Pakistan Islami Chhatra Shangha,
came up with a four-point programme that included 'wiping Hindustan
off the face of the earth'.
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> He said, "Move forward with your head held high and with the Quran
in heart to materialise the programme. If necessary we will march up
to New Delhi and fly the flag of greater Pakistan."
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> Many research works, academic studies of history, accounts of both
victims and collaborators, and publications including newspapers
reveal that Mojaheed, who headed the Al Badr Bahini in Dhaka then,
led the killings of the intellectuals only two days ahead of the
victory of Liberation War.
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> He used to collect funds, organise armed trainings for Razakars,
and persuade students and youths to join the paramilitary force
designed to eliminate the freedom fighters.
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> Addressing a function of the Chhatra Shangha in Faridpur on
September 15, 1971, he said, "Razakars and Al Badr forces and all
other voluntary organisations have been working to protect the nation
from the collaborators and spies of India. But unfortunately we
observe that a section of political leaders like ZA Bhutto, Kawsar
Niazi, Mufti Mahmud and Asghar Khan have lately been making
objectionable remarks about the patriots."
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> 'Razakar Bahini' was established under supervision of former Jamaat
secretary general Moulana Abul Kalam Mohammad Yousuf while 'Badr
Bahini' was comprised of the Islami Chhatra Shangha members.
>
> Professor Dr Anisuzzaman, one of the nine-member committee formed
by the government for making "Bangladesher Swadhinata Judhha
Dalilpatra" (History of Bangladesh's War of Independence) , told The
Daily Star, "The documentary evidence that Jamaat had opposed the
Liberation War is found in black and white in the then newspapers."
>
> The committee assigned by the information ministry on behalf of the
Bangladesh government has compiled and published documentary evidence
of the Liberation War in 15 parts.
>
> Anisuzzaman said, "Al Badr and Al Shams (both the organisations
collaborated with the occupation force) were formed following the
initiative of Jamaat and Islami Chhatra Shangha. There is no room for
doubt that they had killed many of our sons of soil including
intellectuals."
>
> Ironically, the 1971 publications of The Daily Sangram, a newspaper
known as the mouthpiece of Jamaat-e-Islami, carry enough evidence to
expose Jamaat's anti-liberation role.
>
> Study of history reveals that 'Razakars' would organise drives
against the freedom fighters, repress their families and carry out
arsons while the 'Badr Bahini' would hunt down the people seeking
freedom and kill them.
>
> The 'Badr Bahini' also organised seminars and distributed pamphlets
in futile attempts to make Bangalis "believe in ideals of Pakistan
and Islami philosophy of life from cultural and political view
point."
>
> The September 8, 1971 issue of the Daily Sangram carried a news
item headlined "Chhatra Shangha activists will protect each inch of
Pakistan's land".
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> Matiur Rahman Nizami, the incumbent Aamir of Jamaat and the then
president of Shangha, said that Islami Chhatra Shangha activists were
pledged to protect every inch of Pakistan . They were even ready to
attack the mainland Hindustan [India] to protect united Pakistan, the
report read.
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> Another issue of the Sangram published on September 15 quoted
Nizami, who was also the commander-in- chief of Al Badr then, as
saying, "Every one of us should assume the role of a soldier of an
Islami country. With assistance of the poor and the oppressed, we
must kill those who are engaged in war against Pakistan and Islam."
>
> The same newspaper on the third page of its September 16 issue ran
another item headlined "No force on earth will be able to destroy
Pakistan." In the news report Nizami called on the people to face
conspiracy of the so-called Banga Daradi (Lover of Bengal).
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> Nizami's predecessor former Jamaat-e-Islami Aamir Golam Azam was
the brains behind Jamaat's anti-liberation efforts.
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> Statements that Golam Azam had made in different publications show
how instrumental he was in Jamaat's mission to thwart the
independence movement and in helping the Pakistan army to commit
massacres and other war crimes.
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> Golam Azam had held several meetings with the then Pakistani
military ruler Yahia Khan, other policymakers including governors and
politicians to streamline the campaign to resist the liberation
forces.
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> A photograph of the meeting held to form 'Peace Committee', which
helped the occupying forces in committing genocides, shows Golam Azam
with Pakistani leaders and military personnel.
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> Immediately after independence he fled to Pakistan and returned
after the brutal killings of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and
his family in 1975.
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> In 1981, people threw shoes at him when he went to attend a namaz-e-
janaza at Baitul Mukarram.
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> A total of three million people were killed and at least a quarter
million women were violated during the nine months of war. Despite
public demand for punishment to the war criminals and collaborators,
successive governments did nothing to that end.
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> Only the government of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman took some initiatives
to try the war criminals.
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> In January, 1972, Bangabandhu had formulated the Collaborators Act
to try the collaborators and war criminals. The Act covers those
individuals or organisations, who helped the Pakistani army in mass
killings, conducted crimes against humanity, unleashed torture on
men, women and children, destroyed property, or fought against the
People's Republic of Bangladesh siding with the occupying forces. It
also explained how 11 tribunals would be set up to punish them.
>
> There is a view prevalent among a section of people that asking for
trial of war criminals is irrelevant as the Awami League government
had granted a general amnesty for all. This was said time and again
that none pardoned Pakistani war criminals.
>
> The Collaborators Act that was published in a gazette notification
on November 30, 1973 however says none of the war criminals had been
pardoned. The same was true for Golam Azam.
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> Section two of the Act said, "Those who were punished for or
accused of rape, murder, attempt to murder or arson will not come
under general amnesty under the section one."
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> Out of 37,000 sent to jail on charges of collaboration, some 26,000
were freed after announcement of the general amnesty.
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> Around 11,000 were still in the prison when the government of
Justice Sayem and General Zia repealed the Collaboration Act on
December 31, 1975. After the scrapping, those behind bars for war
atrocities appealed and eventually got released.
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> In the early 90s, a mother of martyrs, Jahanara Imam, launched a
movement for trial of war criminals. Though it won overwhelming
public support none of the governments had bothered to take notice of
it.
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> At that time, the People's Inquiry Commission was formed to
investigate the activities of the war criminals and the
collaborators.
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> Led by eminent poet Sufia Kamal, the commission comprised renowned
academics, litterateurs and other professionals. On March 26, 1994,
it unveiled accounts of the war crimes committed by 16 persons.
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> The war criminals are former acting aamir of Jamaat Abbas Ali Khan,
Matiur Rahman Nizami, senior assistance secretary general of Jamaat
Muhammad Kamaruzzaman, former BNP lawmaker Abdul Alim, Jamaat leader
Delwar Hossain Sayeedi, Maulana Abdul Mannan, Anwar Zahid, Abdul
Kader Molla, ASM Solaiman, Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, Maulana Abdus
Sobhan, Maulana AKM Yousuf, Mohammad Ayen Ud Din, Ali Ahsan Mohammad
Mojaheed, ABM Khaleq Majumder and Dr Sayed Sajjad Hossain.
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