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Monday, October 29, 2007

[chottala.com] Why CEC agrees for a ban on politics based on religion!!!???


Rapid Action Battalion members arrest nine suspected members of Harkat-ul Jihad al-Islami and seize 16 grenades and bomb-making materials from their possession in a number of drives across the country on Monday.
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The new acting chief of BNP, Saifur Rahman, shakes hands with ex-secretary general Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan after the party's standing committee meeting at the former's Gulshan residence last night
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[chottala.com] War Criminals of 1971



War Criminals of 1971: Time to Take Action

Dr. Abdul Momen*

It is highly misleading that Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman government pardoned all the war criminals and he did nothing during his 'war ravaged reconstruction period'. The fact shows otherwise.  In fact, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman government started prosecuting the perpetrators of 'crime against humanity' or 'war criminals' immediately after independence and he also passed the Collaborators Act (1972) and the International Crime Act of 1973 that barred re-entry of any collaborators to Bangladesh.  Sheikh Mujib promulgated the Special Tribunal Order on January 24, 1972 (PO No 8 of 1972) after 14 days of his return from Pakistani jail to try those Pakistani collaborators/Razakers/Al-Badrs and other stooges of the Pakistani army. Under this order he arrested 37,000 collaborators amidst of strong opposition by left-leaning journalist like Enayetullah Khan [see his write-up titled '75 million Collaborators', the Holiday, 1972].   Out of them as no grievous criminal charges were filed against 26,000, therefore they were pardoned and released in a general amnesty.  However, nearly 800 cases were completed and given jail sentences.  Another 11,000 were in jail including Nizami, Abbas Ali Khan of the Jamat-e-Islam Party (JI), and their prosecution was at various stages of completion.  In addition, those that were involved in 'crime against humanity' and against Bangladesh, they were denied of Bangladesh nationality and passport.

On November 4, 1972 all religion-based politics were abolished as per sections 12 and 38 of the Bangladesh Constitution of 1972.  

Unfortunately, when General Ziaur Rahman, a valiant Mukti-judda emerged as a 'strong man' in 1975, he abrogated the Collaborators Act and released all the prisoners including those that were sentenced.  For political/ personal reasons he allowed religion-based parties to operate and started reinstating and rehabilitating them.  No wonder, those who were guilty of 'crime against humanity' and collaboration with enemy (Pakistan) state started returning from abroad especially Pakistan and Saudi Arabia and they were given Bangladesh citizenship and passport.  Example, Golam Azam of the JI Party.

On those days I was working with the Bangladesh government and many individuals and their relatives that had no Bangladesh passport approached us for consideration.  However, once General Zia took over, all of them were issued Bangladesh passport or 'travel documents' to return to Bangladesh.  

It is sad that few vested quarters including Abdul Mannan Bhuiya, the ousted BNP Secretary General and current Law Advisor Barrister Moinul Hussein are misleading the public and the nation by stating that Sheikh Mujib pardoned them or shifting the responsibility by blaming why they did not prosecute them.  In fact, Sheikh Mujib started the prosecution and he pardoned only those that did not have criminal cases against them.  He did not pardon those (Razakers, Al-badr or Al-Shams) that had 'criminal cases' and those that committed 'crime against humanity or war criminals' such as rape, murder, and the like.  Thousands of criminals were in prison during his time; however, many were absconding abroad including Golam Azam, the leader of the JI party and they were involved in anti-state activities abroad. He did not get time to complete the prosecution because of abrupt massacre.

After the massacre of Sheikh Mujib and his family plus his closed associates; Prime Minister Tajuddin Ahmed, Acting President Syed Nazrul Islam, Secretary General AHM Qamruzzaman and Home Minister Monsur Ali, the founders of independent and sovereign Bangladesh in 1975, one after another civil-military-technocratic or cantonment-based governments ruled the country basically till 1996. In 1996, when pro-people and pro-liberation government of Sheikh Hasina came to power after 21 years with marginal votes; it neither could reinstate the Collaborators Act nor could revive the original constitution of 1972.  Secondly, it followed 'judicial process and rule of law' and therefore, it did not set up any 'kangaroo court or special tribunal' to prosecute the criminals.  One can debate that as a weakness of the Hasina government or not.  

Therefore, it failed to punish the war criminals and the culprits.  But that does not justify that the criminals of 'crime against humanity' or war criminals should not face justice.  It would be unfair if they are allowed to go free or untouched.  Fortunately, now is an opportune moment to revive the clause that 'no religion-based political party can register or contest in Bangladesh election' and those found guilty of 'crime against humanity' to be fully prosecuted.  Unless the criminals and murderers are fully prosecuted, you can neither establish 'rule of law' nor can stop political killing in Bangladesh.  

More importantly, the International Crime Act of 1973 of Bangladesh is still active and Article 47, Section 3 of the Act allows trial of war criminals. Therefore, the military-backed government of Fakhruddin Ahmed that has started many essential reforms can try the war criminals and punish them provided it has the mindset and commitment. It is unfortunate that its Law Advisor is trying to guillotine the golden opportunity.  

Secondly, Islami activist S. A. Hannan, a retired bureaucrat following the JI party line of argument tried to mislead the public by stating that there was 'no genocide' in East Pakistan in 1971. 

Genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction of an ethnic, religious or national group. While precise definition varies among genocide scholars, the legal definition of it is found in the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG).  Article 2 of the CPPCG defines genocide as "any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life, calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; [and] forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."[1]

 

In 1971 the Pakistan occupation army plus their collaborators like the Jamat-e-Islam, the Islami Chatra Sangho (currently renamed Islami Chatra Shibir) and their militant killing squads; the Al-Badr and the Al-Shams tried their utmost to apprehend and kill those that demand an 'independent Bangladesh'.  Since majority of Bengali speaking East Pakistanis (Sheikh Mujib got 167 out of 169 seats in East Pakistan) or ethnic group favored an independent Bangladesh, they waged a war with intent to destroy that ethnic group. The Pak army systematically opened fire on un-armed masses of Bengali ethnic group on the midnight of March 25th 1971 indiscriminately resulting which, as per various reports 19,000 to 25,000 Bengali ethnic people died on that dark night alone and over a period of 10 months, 3 million reportedly killed, 30 million were dislodged from their homes and 10 million had to take refuge in neighboring India due to cleansing operation, fear and repression.  As per global ranking, Bangladesh genocide is second to that of Nazi genocide of Jews.

 

In order to cripple the whole 'bangali nationalism and nationhood' the Pak army in collaboration with the Jamat-e-Islam and few other such parties and their affiliates systematically and calculatedly murder the Bengali intellectuals, writers, doctors, journalists, educators and their political leadership.  In addition, in order to cleanse the society of Hindu population, the Pak army and its collaborators calculatedly killed and/or uprooted them. No wonder, over 10 million East Pakistanis (out of 75 million) mostly Hindu minority took shelter in the neighboring India. 

 

When Pak army captured me on April 20, 1971, they tested me whether I could recite 'kolema or shada' (the 1st pillar of Muslim faith) and then they checked whether I had my circumcision, a symbol of being Muslim in the subcontinent.  In addition, when the army forced us to lead them in their operations, they repeatedly asked two questions; find 'Mukti' (liberation fighter) and Hindu.  If such are reported, they would immediately open their fire, weapons and mortars.  Such is a testimony of cleansing of a religious group, a clear evidence of genocide.

 

Professor Abdul Momen, Boston, October 29, 2007

  


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Re: [chottala.com] To form special tribunals to try war criminals..Yes Far West..CTG can do & for doing every thing CTG should continues

I think in all fairness what Dina is saying is correct to a certain extent.

However it has became a tendency on our part to expect our Government to do everything for us. We even expect our Government to come and sweep our backyards :) Is it humanly possible?

I think forums such as Chottala should encourage people to find out ways and mean on how the Government can and should go about doing its business, then merely criticizing it on Yahoo forums from the comforts of bedroom PC's.

I am sure with creative and well meaning  people like Dina and others on the forum, it is 'do-able'. More than just harping on the past as to 'who did what to whom and why', its time we looked ahead and unleash a fool-proof  Action Plan.

If we are only going to look backwards (that's exactly what the fossilized political culture wants us to do).....shouldn't we then check the back of our heads to 'see' if gOD by some accident has put 'two eyes' there ? We are in no way a 'backward nation' are we?

Give it a think.

Mac
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Re: [chottala.com] To form special tribunals to try war criminals..Yes Far West..CTG can do & for doing every thing CTG should continues.

Yes Far West
CTG can do & for doing every thing CTG  should continues.
According to the constitution Bangladesh has CTG system Government for conducting fair neutral election. To do all functions & to conduct fair neutral election are needed fair neutral experienced people for forming CTG & are needed also fair neutral administration. So it is very essential for CTG to make nation wide a Permanent Care Taker Party with experienced fair & neutral persons to rule the country. It is also essential to establish nation wide a Permanent Care Taker Administrations in the country with fair & neutral persons for CTG to do their activities efficiently.
Reasons
By asking to this present CTG to form special tribunals for doing trial of war criminals it is proving that the political leaders in Bangladesh are totally inefficient to rule the country. If you ask CTG to do trial after proper investigation then this CTG should need to continue at least 40 years on postponing national election.
Because political government could not be able to file any case to the court for doing trial against any war criminal during last 36 years. Now CTG for doing trial first needs to investigate for finding out with proper proof the persons who were war criminals in 1971 then CTG can proceed to do trial.
So all political leaders must need to support the present CTG continue for doing trials of war criminals by postponing election until finish the trials of war criminals.
CTG is also needed to form a Care Taker Party with care taker neutral administration for doing its functional jobs neutrally.
Present CTG is also required to form a special tribunal court for doing trial for why the political leaders who were in power during last 36 years did not do trial against the War Criminals after proper investigation.


Far West <far982004@yahoo.com> wrote:
Dr. Siraj uddowllah,
After reading your following e-mail, I think it will be good if you please read the articles in the following websites for your further information:
 


Siraj uddowllah <uddowllahsiraj@yahoo.com> wrote:
Dear Abdur Rahim Azad,
 
What dina khan is telling I think she is right. CTG is trying their level best only to give us a fair and free election within this fully corrupted  Bangladesh, created by the previous democratic regime.
 
CTG have got two options at present in their hand. Number (1) is to wipe out the corruption and number (2) is to present us a corruption and Karchupi free election. 
 
Within this short time by their sincere efforts they caught many corrupted political leaders of the previous regime. Again many people wanted, these  leaders to be released, and the power should be handed over to the same corrupted leaders through election in the name of so called democratic process. Many have started criticising our present sincere and honest CTG by raising hue and cry to give an early election. 
 
Now again they are asking CTG to form special tribunal for those war criminals after 36 years. Our great leader and father of the nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman already gave them amnesty without taking any consents from the public who suffered a lot in the hands of those Rajakar, Al-Badar, Al-Shams and Jamaat during 1971 liberation war. As people used to love Bangabandhu too much at that time they accepted his decision whole heartedly without any objection.
 
What we see now, these opportunistic political parties using this Jamaat as trum card, one time Awami League took them in their side to win the election as in 1996, and in another time in 2001 B.N.P. took them in their side. " Baap dakteyo deri nai, shala dakteyo deri nai". In this way election game is going on by making the publics in the middle as a great fool. What they think about the common people? Are they play doll in the hands of those two political parties?    
 
CTG is only responsible to do and conduct free and fair election. It is not their duty to start tribunal for those war criminals. It is the duty of the next democratically elected govt. Uptill now the so called democratic leaders could not do anything for those war criminals even by making GHADANIK and what not, and now again some are demanding CTG should do everything and make a war tribunal within these short period which our previous so called democratic leaders could not do uptill now. What sorts of  absurd proposal is this? Why not they did this during their tenure? Why to break the KATHAL upon the heads of CTG?
 
Dr. Siraj uddowllah, Windsor, Canada.
 
 
 
 
Mr Abdur Rahim As ad
By asking to this present CTG to form special tribunals for doing trial of war criminals it is proving that the political leaders in Bangladesh are totally inefficient to rule the country. If you ask CTG to do trial after proper investigation then this CTG should need to continue at least 40 years on postponing national election.
Because political government could not be able to file any case to the court for doing trial against any war criminal during last 36 years. Now CTG for doing trial first needs to investigate for finding out with proper proof the persons who were war criminals in 1971 then CTG can proceed to do trial.
So all political leaders must need to support the present CTG continue for doing trials of war criminals by postponing election until finish the trials of war criminals.
CTG is also needed to form a Care Taker Party with care taker neutral administration for doing its functional jobs neutrally.
Present CTG is also required to form a special tribunal court for doing trial for why the political leaders who were in power during last 36 years did not do trial against the War Criminals after proper investigation.
 
 
AbdurRahim Azad <Arahim.azad@ gmail.com> wrote:
 
 
 
A liar and a falsifier of history :  Bangladesh Genocide denial by another Jamaati apologist
This is the same S.A.Hannan who regularly post items from Asia posts in Khabor  forum.
He is a  life long Jamaati-activist, a collaborator of Yahia-Tikka regime and a promoter of
neo-Yazidi political Islam.  It is no surprize that he has now joined Jamaat's latest develish
maneauvers.
 
Visit his latest blog in this forum:
http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/khabor/ message/5712
 
The mass killings in Bangladesh is the most concentrated act of genocide in the twentieth century.  In an attempt to crush forces seeking independent the Pakistani military regime unleashed a systematic campaign of mass murder aimed at killing millions of Bengalis in 1971.
Bangladesh.Bengali man and boys massacred by the West Pakistani regime. Bengali intellectuals murdered and dumped at dockside in Dacca.
 
 
There was no genocide; it was a 'civil war'
Claims Shah A Hannan

 
Known Jamaat-sympathiser and former Islami Bank chairman Shah Abdul Hannan has described the Liberation War of 1971 as a "civil war". He denied that genocide took place in the country at that time and that war criminals exist here.

Speaking on a talk show, Ekushey Shomoy, on private satellite television channel Ekushey Television on Friday, Hannan also expressed doubts that three million people died in the war and supported a Pakistani report according to which only 26,000 people or less died during the Liberation War.

The following is a transcript of his comments made on the talk show:

DENIAL OF WAR CRIMES
At the Simla Conference between India and Pakistan, Pakistani soldiers were released as war prisoners, not war criminals. So, I am in agreement with [Jamaat-e-Islami secretary general Ali Ahsan Mohammad] Mojaheed that there are no war criminals in the country.

There was an Awami League government until 1975 and there was another Awami League government in 1996, under which I worked as a secretary and I was even close to the administration. But they never thought of trying war criminals. Another major party BNP was in power during the rule of Ziaur Rahman and later came to power thrice, and at no point did they try to hold trials of the war criminals.

Since no one is making any claim and there are no cases filed with the court--Bangladesh government is the entity that can file a case and has never filed a case against anyone--I will continue to say there are no war criminals in this country until the government files a case against anyone.

CIVIL WAR, NOT LIBERATION WAR
I frankly think it was a liberation war but it was also a civil war not only in the sense that it was between West and East Pakistan but also because it was a fight between political forces supporting a untied Pakistan and an independent Bangladesh.

If they can prove that these things [war crimes] were done in 1971, let them take it to court. The constitution mentions that Bangladesh was created through a liberation war--yes, it is true. But plenty of people say it was a civil war.

I know this much that in 1971 there was a civil war...Fine, it was also a Muktijuddha. ..From what I have read in foreign newspapers and encyclopaedia, it was a civil war and most people did not call it a "struggle for freedom". But there is no doubt that it was a genuine freedom fight by the people of Bangladesh. It was an excitable time and the population was also more or less divided. So, those who thought at that time that it was not right to break up Pakistan with the help of India held the view that they should stay on the side of the then Pakistan administration politically, not for violence. The other side thought they should unite with India to gain independence. There were a lot of excesses back then--not only members of one community died--Hindus died, Muslims died, Biharies died, Bangalees died, wives died, children died, women died, men died...And the number, I do not know anything about three million deaths. There was no survey in 1972, not in 1974, and never. That is why these numbers are allowed to be mentioned. I urge the current government to conduct a survey so this problem is solved. It is not right to ask this to the caretaker government, ask this to the next elected government.

Bangalees were on both the sides, involved in the events before December 16, 1971. You have to judge in that political context. I think those who were against the idea of Bangladesh have shifted from that position. A lot of them are my good friends--they are patriotic, they defend Bangladesh, they are in a struggle to build Bangladesh and protect it from the attacks of other countries.

REACTION TO NIZAMI'S 1971 REMARKS
Genocide is a matter of definition. Not everything is genocide. The United Nations has not called this genocide. We can call this genocide or whatever. Nizami could clarify his own quotes. But I know in the context of 1971, there was a civil war...and another war between India and Pakistan. Both Razakars and collaborators were killed as well as freedom fighters. It was a struggle between ethnic and political forces...Bangalees and Biharis were also fighting each other. So, it was not genocide. This is my personal opinion.

HAMOOD-UR-RAHMAN COMMISSION REPORT
[The commission was formed with the then Pakistan Supreme Court Chief Justice Hamood-ur-Rahman as the head to ascertain the facts of the 1971 debacle. It reported that 26,000 people or less died in the war.]

I cannot ignore the findings because he was a Bangalee, a judge of the High Court and the chief justice of the Supreme Court. But, it is our fault that the governments during the rule of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia did not conduct a survey. Wise men are still here who can still say how many people died in which village. Sheikh Mujib first said one million and then said 30 million and he is quoted in encyclopaedias. But they also did not conduct surveys. The truth needs to come out and the government needs to conduct a survey.

The matter of war criminals' right to participate in politics...Well, if they are found guilty, then they have no right to form a party, fine. But, until they are not proven guilty of war crimes they can...But, if they are proven guilty, do not let them form parties, imprison them, hang them, if you need to..

RELIGION-BASED POLITICS
Islam is not simply a religion, it is a life system. You can say about secularism.. .Sheikh Mujib himself established the Islamic Foundation and the Quran was also recited on the radio during the Liberation War, Allahu Akbar was mentioned several times during airing.

Denying a religion-based political party will be denying the democratic process and the constitution. No democracy can ban a religion-based party.

Religion-based politics...has never been banned in the sub-continent. The Muslim League and the Jamaat-e-Islami India were banned in India but they were cleared by the court.

Bangladeshi Islamic parties have been in existence since 1975. According to the constitution, if any party has any right to be formed, it is the Islamic parties. It is a democratic constitution, not just a large Islamic constitution, and no party can be banned under a democratic constitution, not in England, not anywhere else.
 


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[chottala.com] Akhteruzzaman alleges intelligence agents asked Delwar to give up BNP post

Akhteruzzaman alleges intelligence agents asked Delwar to give up BNP post
 
 
Tue, Oct 30th, 2007 2:53 am BdST
Dhaka, Oct 29 (bdnews24.com) – Former BNP MP Md Akhteruzzaman Monday claimed that two senior officials of an intelligence agency had asked party secretary general Khandaker Delwar Hossain to leave his post in 24 hours.

In a written statement to the media, he said the officials had allegedly asked Delwar to go to the house of former finance minister M Saifur Rahman by 7:30pm Monday and declare Saifur the party's acting chairperson and Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan secretary general.

But Akhteruzzaman, himself a former military officer, did not specify which intelligence agency the officials belong to.

Retired major Akhteruzzaman confirmed that he had sent out the press statement when bdnews24.com contacted him.

The former MP, whom the BNP expelled for his outspoken criticism of party leadership, also alleged that the intelligence agents had threatened to kill Delwar unless he complied with the order.

The officials went to Delwar's home Sunday, he said.

Delwar, last seen in BIRDEM hospital Monday evening, could not be reached immediately for his version of events.

"They not only threatened the secretary general but aimed verbal abuse at me. If necessary, they will even kill me for helping Delwar," he said.

Akhteruzzaman told bdnews24.com by phone that he was not present when the officials arrived at Delwar's NAM flat on city's Manik Miah Avenue, but that his statement was based on what Delwar said to him.

The officials allegedly told Delwar that "Begum Khaleda Zia will not be allowed anymore to do politics on the soil of Bangladesh", the statement said.

Akhteruzzaman sought intervention from the army chief and said people expected "rule of law".

"Nobody is above the law," he said.

"It's not the job of an intelligence agency or officials of such agency to decide who will be the party's secretary general, the president or who will do politics," said Akhteruzzaman, former MP from Kishoreganj-2 constituency.

"Everything has a limit. I think government officials—military or civilian—should not stretch the limits of responsibilities, nor should they go out of their way."

bdnews24.com contacted information adviser Mainul Hosein for comment.

Mainul only said: "I would not comment on it as I did not read the statement."
 
 
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Re: [chottala.com] To form special tribunals to try war criminals

Dr. Siraj uddowllah,
After reading your following e-mail, I think it will be good if you please read the articles in the following websites for your further information:
 


Siraj uddowllah <uddowllahsiraj@yahoo.com> wrote:
Dear Abdur Rahim Azad,
 
What dina khan is telling I think she is right. CTG is trying their level best only to give us a fair and free election within this fully corrupted  Bangladesh, created by the previous democratic regime.
 
CTG have got two options at present in their hand. Number (1) is to wipe out the corruption and number (2) is to present us a corruption and Karchupi free election. 
 
Within this short time by their sincere efforts they caught many corrupted political leaders of the previous regime. Again many people wanted, these  leaders to be released, and the power should be handed over to the same corrupted leaders through election in the name of so called democratic process. Many have started criticising our present sincere and honest CTG by raising hue and cry to give an early election. 
 
Now again they are asking CTG to form special tribunal for those war criminals after 36 years. Our great leader and father of the nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman already gave them amnesty without taking any consents from the public who suffered a lot in the hands of those Rajakar, Al-Badar, Al-Shams and Jamaat during 1971 liberation war. As people used to love Bangabandhu too much at that time they accepted his decision whole heartedly without any objection.
 
What we see now, these opportunistic political parties using this Jamaat as trum card, one time Awami League took them in their side to win the election as in 1996, and in another time in 2001 B.N.P. took them in their side. " Baap dakteyo deri nai, shala dakteyo deri nai". In this way election game is going on by making the publics in the middle as a great fool. What they think about the common people? Are they play doll in the hands of those two political parties?    
 
CTG is only responsible to do and conduct free and fair election. It is not their duty to start tribunal for those war criminals. It is the duty of the next democratically elected govt. Uptill now the so called democratic leaders could not do anything for those war criminals even by making GHADANIK and what not, and now again some are demanding CTG should do everything and make a war tribunal within these short period which our previous so called democratic leaders could not do uptill now. What sorts of  absurd proposal is this? Why not they did this during their tenure? Why to break the KATHAL upon the heads of CTG?
 
Dr. Siraj uddowllah, Windsor, Canada.
 
 
 
 
Mr Abdur Rahim As ad
By asking to this present CTG to form special tribunals for doing trial of war criminals it is proving that the political leaders in Bangladesh are totally inefficient to rule the country. If you ask CTG to do trial after proper investigation then this CTG should need to continue at least 40 years on postponing national election.
Because political government could not be able to file any case to the court for doing trial against any war criminal during last 36 years. Now CTG for doing trial first needs to investigate for finding out with proper proof the persons who were war criminals in 1971 then CTG can proceed to do trial.
So all political leaders must need to support the present CTG continue for doing trials of war criminals by postponing election until finish the trials of war criminals.
CTG is also needed to form a Care Taker Party with care taker neutral administration for doing its functional jobs neutrally.
Present CTG is also required to form a special tribunal court for doing trial for why the political leaders who were in power during last 36 years did not do trial against the War Criminals after proper investigation.
 
 
AbdurRahim Azad <Arahim.azad@ gmail.com> wrote:
 
 
 
A liar and a falsifier of history :  Bangladesh Genocide denial by another Jamaati apologist
This is the same S.A.Hannan who regularly post items from Asia posts in Khabor  forum.
He is a  life long Jamaati-activist, a collaborator of Yahia-Tikka regime and a promoter of
neo-Yazidi political Islam.  It is no surprize that he has now joined Jamaat's latest develish
maneauvers.
 
Visit his latest blog in this forum:
http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/khabor/ message/5712
 
The mass killings in Bangladesh is the most concentrated act of genocide in the twentieth century.  In an attempt to crush forces seeking independent the Pakistani military regime unleashed a systematic campaign of mass murder aimed at killing millions of Bengalis in 1971.
Bangladesh.Bengali man and boys massacred by the West Pakistani regime. Bengali intellectuals murdered and dumped at dockside in Dacca.
 
 
There was no genocide; it was a 'civil war'
Claims Shah A Hannan

 
Known Jamaat-sympathiser and former Islami Bank chairman Shah Abdul Hannan has described the Liberation War of 1971 as a "civil war". He denied that genocide took place in the country at that time and that war criminals exist here.

Speaking on a talk show, Ekushey Shomoy, on private satellite television channel Ekushey Television on Friday, Hannan also expressed doubts that three million people died in the war and supported a Pakistani report according to which only 26,000 people or less died during the Liberation War.

The following is a transcript of his comments made on the talk show:

DENIAL OF WAR CRIMES
At the Simla Conference between India and Pakistan, Pakistani soldiers were released as war prisoners, not war criminals. So, I am in agreement with [Jamaat-e-Islami secretary general Ali Ahsan Mohammad] Mojaheed that there are no war criminals in the country.

There was an Awami League government until 1975 and there was another Awami League government in 1996, under which I worked as a secretary and I was even close to the administration. But they never thought of trying war criminals. Another major party BNP was in power during the rule of Ziaur Rahman and later came to power thrice, and at no point did they try to hold trials of the war criminals.

Since no one is making any claim and there are no cases filed with the court--Bangladesh government is the entity that can file a case and has never filed a case against anyone--I will continue to say there are no war criminals in this country until the government files a case against anyone.

CIVIL WAR, NOT LIBERATION WAR
I frankly think it was a liberation war but it was also a civil war not only in the sense that it was between West and East Pakistan but also because it was a fight between political forces supporting a untied Pakistan and an independent Bangladesh.

If they can prove that these things [war crimes] were done in 1971, let them take it to court. The constitution mentions that Bangladesh was created through a liberation war--yes, it is true. But plenty of people say it was a civil war.

I know this much that in 1971 there was a civil war...Fine, it was also a Muktijuddha. ..From what I have read in foreign newspapers and encyclopaedia, it was a civil war and most people did not call it a "struggle for freedom". But there is no doubt that it was a genuine freedom fight by the people of Bangladesh. It was an excitable time and the population was also more or less divided. So, those who thought at that time that it was not right to break up Pakistan with the help of India held the view that they should stay on the side of the then Pakistan administration politically, not for violence. The other side thought they should unite with India to gain independence. There were a lot of excesses back then--not only members of one community died--Hindus died, Muslims died, Biharies died, Bangalees died, wives died, children died, women died, men died...And the number, I do not know anything about three million deaths. There was no survey in 1972, not in 1974, and never. That is why these numbers are allowed to be mentioned. I urge the current government to conduct a survey so this problem is solved. It is not right to ask this to the caretaker government, ask this to the next elected government.

Bangalees were on both the sides, involved in the events before December 16, 1971. You have to judge in that political context. I think those who were against the idea of Bangladesh have shifted from that position. A lot of them are my good friends--they are patriotic, they defend Bangladesh, they are in a struggle to build Bangladesh and protect it from the attacks of other countries.

REACTION TO NIZAMI'S 1971 REMARKS
Genocide is a matter of definition. Not everything is genocide. The United Nations has not called this genocide. We can call this genocide or whatever. Nizami could clarify his own quotes. But I know in the context of 1971, there was a civil war...and another war between India and Pakistan. Both Razakars and collaborators were killed as well as freedom fighters. It was a struggle between ethnic and political forces...Bangalees and Biharis were also fighting each other. So, it was not genocide. This is my personal opinion.

HAMOOD-UR-RAHMAN COMMISSION REPORT
[The commission was formed with the then Pakistan Supreme Court Chief Justice Hamood-ur-Rahman as the head to ascertain the facts of the 1971 debacle. It reported that 26,000 people or less died in the war.]

I cannot ignore the findings because he was a Bangalee, a judge of the High Court and the chief justice of the Supreme Court. But, it is our fault that the governments during the rule of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia did not conduct a survey. Wise men are still here who can still say how many people died in which village. Sheikh Mujib first said one million and then said 30 million and he is quoted in encyclopaedias. But they also did not conduct surveys. The truth needs to come out and the government needs to conduct a survey.

The matter of war criminals' right to participate in politics...Well, if they are found guilty, then they have no right to form a party, fine. But, until they are not proven guilty of war crimes they can...But, if they are proven guilty, do not let them form parties, imprison them, hang them, if you need to..

RELIGION-BASED POLITICS
Islam is not simply a religion, it is a life system. You can say about secularism.. .Sheikh Mujib himself established the Islamic Foundation and the Quran was also recited on the radio during the Liberation War, Allahu Akbar was mentioned several times during airing.

Denying a religion-based political party will be denying the democratic process and the constitution. No democracy can ban a religion-based party.

Religion-based politics...has never been banned in the sub-continent. The Muslim League and the Jamaat-e-Islami India were banned in India but they were cleared by the court.

Bangladeshi Islamic parties have been in existence since 1975. According to the constitution, if any party has any right to be formed, it is the Islamic parties. It is a democratic constitution, not just a large Islamic constitution, and no party can be banned under a democratic constitution, not in England, not anywhere else.
 


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