| Arrests put Jamaat in deep trouble Jamaat-e-Islami now struggles to come up with an effective strategy to face the current crisis arising from the large number of arrests of its party leaders across the country. Party leaders said they would observe the whole situation while keeping in touch with their international contacts and fight legal battles to free their leaders including Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami. ATM Azharul Islam, acting secretary general of Jamaat, said, "We are observing the situation. The legal battle to free our leaders will continue along with a peaceful movement." Jamaat lawmaker and its Dhaka unit general secretary Hamidur Rahman Azad said they cannot take the arrests of the party's top leaders lightly but being a political party they would put emphasis on a peaceful movement. Law enforcers on June 29 arrested Motiur Rahman Nizami, Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojahid and Delwar Hossain Sayedee and also detained Abdul Quader Molla and Mohammad Kamaruzzaman on 13 July. Of them, Molla and Kamaruzzaman were arrested on charge of mass murder in 1971. Party leaders however ruled out the idea that the party supporters and leaders of the new generation don't want controversial leaders, highly criticised for their dubious role during the Liberation War, to be at the helm of Jamaat. Both Azhar and Azad termed the war crimes allegations against Jamaat leaders funny. They said the government is using the issue in a planned way to weaken the opposition by crushing Jamaat. Azhar said the government targeted Jamaat to weaken the opposition fearing a possible anti-government movement. But it has to keep in mind that Jamaat is a political party, which is registered with the Election Commission and has representation in parliament. "It is true that we are worried about the present situation." But the party knows how to tackle it like it did in the past, he said. Azad said they would not accept such autocratic attitude of the government but they will continue a peaceful movement. A number of Jamaat leaders said they are worried about the arrests of the party leaders across the country and considered it a deep crisis for the party for the first time in the last two decades. They said the party has decided to adopt a wait-and-see policy for now. |
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