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Rabiul H. Zaki

1952, 1971, the genocide andShahbaghMarch 16, 2013

Events in the last few weeks have been painful reminders of ourLiberation War, Jamaat-e-Islami’s role, trials and tribulationssurrounding the demand for justice after 42 years. People who are notparticularly biased for or against a particular political school ofthought in Bangladesh, people who have general knowledge of theevents in 1947 but never delved deep into the complex and conflictingsources of information may wonder — “what is going on”!

Instead of discussing and debating what pro-Liberation people thinkof ‘71 genocide, the nature of today’s Shahbagh Movement, threats toIslam in Bangladesh; let’s be one sided, let’s be biased and count on,essentially, a single source of information i.e. from Pakistani andanti-liberation entities like Jamaat. Many books and reports have beenwritten by Bangladeshis, Pakistanis, Indians and westernscholars/media but let’s concentrate on Pakistani, Muslim League andJamatis; let’s hear from the horse’s mouth.

History repeats itself: Un-Islamic Bangla, communist (atheist)youths of 1952 and today’s youths of Shahbagh

Shahbagh youths have been called atheists, un-Islamic by Jamaat-e-Islami and its support base. Let’s see the history of such namecalling in Bangladesh. It started a long time ago and it started withour Language Movement in 1948-1952.

Badruddin Umar in his book “Bhasa Andolon Proshongo, KotipoyDolil” (1995) included a treatise named “Pakistan Language Formula:A Scientific Study of the Language Problem of a “Uninational”,Ideological, Islamic State in a “Multilingual” Country” produced byMaulana Ragib Ahsan, Ex Member, Bangal Muslim LeagueParliamentary Board, Founder, Jamiat Ulema-I-Islam, March 1952.

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Among other things, Maulana Ahsan theorized the followings:

“The Worship of Language for the sake of Language or of Race andHomeland is the idolatry of the age and Pakistan has come to smashthese idols and emancipate man from the slavery of Race, Language,territorial nationalism and materialism”. (page 77)

Bengali “far from being akin to Islamic spirit it is absolutelyanti-Islamic and anti-Musalman in its origin, form and spirit. The“Musalmani Bengala” of the Muslamans is not fully developed andrequires careful culture to bring it in tune with Islamic culture andideology of Pakistan”. (page 80)

Bengali-a-medium of Hinduization- “Modern sanskritized Bengali is analien Braminical Aryan imposition from without on the soul of BengaliMuslims…It is a veritable medium of the process of Hinduization”.(page 93)

“Bengali should adopt Arabic script to help further development andIslamization of Musalmani Bengala”. (page 104)

In a book named “Political History of Bangladesh” (2001), DrMohammed Hannan, says, “Prior to the general election in 1954, theMuslim League Government of Pakistan even gave a fatwa issued bytheir Moulavis that casting vote against the Muslim League woulddissolve marriages of the concerned voters”. (51)

In his memoir, “Amar Dekha Rajneeteer Ponchash Bochor” (1989)Abul Mansur Ahmed, provided a vivid description of the MuslimLeague and Pakistani mindset in 50’s and 60’s:

“They (i.e. leaders of Muslim League) started to say that opposition ofMuslim League was akin to opposing Pakistan. Gradually they startedto claim that Pakistan came into being for the wellbeing of Islam. Inessence opposing Muslim League is opposing Pakistan, which in turnmeans opposing Pakistan means opposing Islam. …thereforeopposition party in Pakistan means enemy of Pakistan and Islam”.(page 40)

Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy who was instrumental in the creation ofPakistan, was rebuked by then Pakistani Prime Minister Liaquat AliKhan as the “Mad dog unleashed by Hindustan”(page 41).

Later under Ayub Khan, Mr Suhrawardy was accused of subversion.“Therefore they arrested Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy on 31 January1962 in Karachi under internal security law. The next day, 1stFebruary President Ayub Khan arrived in Dacca. He declared at theairport, “The government has arrested Mr. Suhrawardy because hewas about to destroy Pakistan with foreign money”

Jamaat-e-Islami often claims that Ghulam Azam participated in theLanguage Movement of 1952. He actually did but later regretted it.Badruddin Umar in another book “Jhuddo-purbo Bangladesh” (1987)quotes the following from “The Daily Azad” (20 June 1970)- “Amir ofEast Pakistan Jamaat-e-Islami said in a lecture that the languagemovement of 1952 was a great political mistake and he expressed hissorrow for his own involvement in that movement. …Because “Urdu isthe common language of the Muslims of the Indian subcontinent, andtheir cultural and religious identity is inherent in it”. (page 102)

Maulana Ragib Ahsan (1952 page 93-94) declared, “The present dayDacca University has become the citadel and stronghold of BengaliLinguistic Nationalism, Secularism and Communism (read atheist)and has been fountainhead of the Anti-Islam and Anti-Pakistanmovements. The University as at present constituted is diametricallyopposed to Islamic and Pakistani Ideology”.

In order to suppress the demand for Bangla to become an officiallanguage of Pakistan, the so-called Islamic scholar(s) and politicianstried to denigrate Bangla. Politicians who fought for Pakistan butwanted democracy were derided and harassed.


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Youths, who fought for such worthy causes, were called atheist andanti-Islamic. Therefore, there is no doubt that today Jamaat-e-Islamiand its apologists would call Shahbagh youths- “atheists”. They havebeen doing it since 1952.

In 1971, Jamaat was trying to save Pakistan in order to saveIslam in this country

How did “Islamic” Pakistani army and its top echelons behave in1971? What did Pakistani army say about their own activities andJamaat’s role to save Pakistan in order to save Islam?

After the war, the president of Pakistan appointed the War InquiryCommission in December 1971. The commission was headed by thenChief Justice of Pakistan, Hamoodur Rahman. His report is known asthe “Hamoodur Rahman Commission Report”, (October 23, 1974).Here are some related excerpts from the report:

… “corruptionarising out of the performance of Martial Law duties, lust for wine andwomen and greed for lands and houses, a large number of senior(Pakistani) Army Officers, particularly those occupying the highestpositions”. The report described such life as “disreputable” (Chapter Iof Part V of the Main Report)

… Lt. Gen. Niazi … during his stay in East Pakistan he came toacquire a stinking reputation owing to his association with women ofbad repute, and his nocturnal visits to places also frequented byseveral junior officers under his command; and that he indulged in thesmuggling of Pan from East Pakistan to West Pakistan. (Paragraphs 30to 34 of Chapter 1 of Part V of the Main Report).

“The troops used to say that when the Commander (Lt. Gen. Niazi)was himself a raper, how could they be stopped?”

“The report quotes Lt. Gen. Niazi regarding Pakistani army activitiespost 25 March, I addressed a letter to all formations located in thearea and insisted that loot, rape, arson, killing of people at randommust stop… I had come to know that looted material had been sent toWest Pakistan which included cars, refrigerators and air conditionersetc.”

Maj. Gen. Rao Forman Ali, Adviser to the Governor of East Pakistan,told the Commission about “Harrowing tales of rape, loot, arson,harassment, and of insulting and degrading behaviour” by thePakistani army.

Brigadier Mian Taskeenuddin (Witness No. 282) said: “Many juniorand other officers took the law into their own hands to deal with theso-called miscreants. There have been cases of interrogation ofmiscreants, which were far more severe in character than normal andin some cases committed in front of the public.

An admission was also made by Lt. Col. S. M. Naeem (Witness No258) CO of 39 Baluch that “innocent people were killed by us duringsweep operations and it created estrangement amongst the public.”

“There was a general feeling of hatred against Bengalis amongst thesoldiers and officers including Generals. There were verbal


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instructions to eliminate Hindus”.

Mr. Mohammad Ashraf, Additional Deputy Commissioner, Dacca…said “after the military action the Bengalis were made aliens in theirown homeland. The life, property, and honour of even the most highlyplaced among them were not safe. People were picked up from theirhomes on suspicion and dispatched to Bangladesh, a term used todescribe summary executions…. The victims included Army and PoliceOfficers, businessmen, civilian officers etc”.

The statements appearing in the evidence of Lt. Col. Aziz Ahmed Khan(Witness no 276) who was Commanding Officer 8 Baluch and then CO86 Mujahid Battalion are also directly relevant. “Brigadier Arbbabalso told me to destroy all houses in Joydepur. To a great extent Iexecuted this order. General Niazi visited my unit at Thakurgaon andBogra. He asked us how many Hindus we had killed. In May, therewas an order in writing to kill Hindus. This order was from BrigadierAbdullah Malik of 23 Brigade.”

Brigadier Siddique Saliq in his book “Witness to Surrender” (1997)described the horrific event of the night of 25th March as follows:

“The gates of hell had been cast open.” (page 75)

“During these operations, some troops, to the shame of all, indulgedin looting, killing and rape” (page 104).

Major General Khadim Hossain Raza in his book, “A Stranger in MyOwn Country, East Pakistan 1969-1971” (2012) wrote the followings:

Yahyah’s moral character: “too disgraceful to be put into print”.

General Niazi on 10 March 1971 at a briefing/de-briefing conferenceat the headquarters of the Eastern Command said “Main is haramzadiquamki nasal badal doon ga. Ye mujhe kiya samajhtey hain”. Hethreatened that he would let his soldiers loose on the womenfolk”(page 98).

General Niazi on 11April at Command Headquarter said to General Khadim “Yar, larai kifikar nahin karo, woh to hum lain gey. Abhi to mujhey Bangaligirlfriends key phone number dey do” (page 99).

In his book, Major General Rao Forman Ali, “How Pakistan GotDivided” (1996 Bangla version) offers the following information:

“Reinforcement troops from (West Pakistan) were from Civil ArmedForces (CAF). Before coming to Dacca somebody must have advisedthem that Bangalis have revolted against Islamic country Pakistan,Bengalis were definitely portrayed as kafirs to some such troops. CAFpersonnel did not behave well …In order to establish public order anew force was created named Rajakar. Overall they made a very goodcontribution” (page 94).

“Within a short span of time Niazi became infamous for his obscenelanguage and licentious character. Only Allah or he knows, what typeof person he was. However, his conversations were obscene anddealings were shameful. I told the president all his stories, whichwere circulating in Dacca. I also expressed my concerns about hissafety as it was known that he would visit homes of women of badrepute without any bodyguard” (Page 99).

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freedom fighter Kader Siddiqui in the following way- “In my view hewas behaving in a shameful way. When he was discussing theconditions of surrender to the enemy, he should have been calm anddignified. He was behaving in an undignified and funny manner- hewas cracking obscene jokes to the Indians as if they were his long lostfriends” (Page 157).

Pakistanis themselves have confessed about rape, murder of innocentcivilians, looting, burning, even of smuggling, lust for wine andwomen, etc. and what was the Jamaat saying and doing?

The Daily Prothom Alo published, on 11 January 2012, a compilationof statements by the Jamaat leaders based on what was published inJamaat’s own newspaper The Daily Sangram in 1971. Here are a fewof those statements:

On 20 June 1971, Ghulam Azam at a press conference at LahoreAirport said, “With support from many non-Muslims in East Pakistan,Sheik Mujib intends for secession. (Pakistan) Army has uprootedalmost all miscreants from East Pakistan and now there is no powerwhich can challenge the dominance of the army”.

On August 12, 1971, Azam declared, “the supporters of the so-calledBangladesh Movement are the enemies of Islam, Pakistan, andMuslims”.

On 5 August 1971, Matiur Rahman Nizami (then head of Al Badr) said“Allah entrusted the pious Muslims with the responsibility to save Hisbeloved Pakistan. (But) when the Muslims failed to solve the politicalproblem in a political way, then Allah saved His beloved land throughthe (Pakistan) army”.

…“immediately after (the 1965) war, we again submerged underfalsehood. Allah’s curse (gojob) came onto us (referring to 25 March1971). Pakistan is abode of Allah. Allah has saved it time and again;He will protect it in the future. No power of the world will be able todestroy Pakistan”.

Dr MohammedHannan (2001) wrote, “The Pakistani soldiers unleashed a reign ofterror on the soil of Bangladesh in 1971. They brutally killed innocentpeople, molested Bengali women and ruined the economy. The Jamaatleaders, Ghulam Azam and Matiur Rahman Nizami, issued the fatwathat those activities were permissible to save Islam” (Page 252,Bangladeshe Fatwar Itihas, 1999).

We can make up our minds based on the above without listening toany “lie” from the pro-Liberation forces, or God forbid from the AwamiLeague’s propaganda. Can’t we?

’71 genocide and the role of Peace Committee, Rajakar, andAl-Badr

According to Brigadier Siddique Saliq (1997), “These operations (post25 March) were only partial success because the West Pakistanitroops neither knew the faces of the suspects nor could they read thelane numbers (in Bengali). They had to depend on the co-operation of


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the local people”…“The only people who came forward were therightist like Khwaja Khairuddin of the Council Muslim League, FazlulQader Chauwdhury of the Convention Muslim League, ProfessorGhulam Azam of the Jamaat-e-Islami and Maulavi Farid Ahmed of theNizam-i-Islam Party. (page 92-93)

“But the Army, out of sheer necessity valued their presence andfollowed their advice”. (Page 93)

“Instead of eradicating these germs of independence, the authoritiesthought it wise to perpetuate the reign of terror “to keep the Bingosunder control”. They frequently resorted to “search and sweepoperations” on information provided by “patriotic” Pakistanis. (Page94).

“These patriotic elements were organized into two groups. The elderlyand prominent among them formed the Peace Committees while theyoung and able-bodied men were recruited as Razakars. LaterGeneral Niazi would “call Razakars Al Badr (headed by Nizami) andAsh Shams”. The Al Badr and Ash Shams groups were a dedicated lot,keen to help the army”. (Page 105)

Regarding brutal murders of intellectuals on 14 December, HamoodurRahman Commission Report (1973) provides the following insight:

26. Maj. Gen. Jamshed …said “It was on the 9th and 10th of December1971 that General Niazi expressed his apprehension of a generaluprising in the Dacca city and ordered him to examine the possibilityof arresting certain persons according to lists which were alreadywith the various agencies, namely the Martial Law Authorities and theIntelligence Branch. A conference was held on the 9th and 10th ofDecember 1971 in which these lists were produced by the agenciesconcerned and the total number of persons to be arrested came toabout two or three thousand.”

Regarding murders of the intellectuals Major General Rao Farman Ali(1996) said, “.. some people were arrested. I do not till this day knowwhere they were kept. Perhaps they were confined in an area whichwas guarded by mujahids (i.e. Al-Badr and Al Shams).

…Army got support of Al Badr, Al Shams and Rajakar Mujahidscreated by General Niazi” (page 97).

When asked about Farman’s refusal to admit his involvement in thekilling of the intellectuals Brigadier Siddique Saliq, another seniormilitary officer during the war, said, “….He (Farman) was the majorgeneral in charge of civil administration. As such nothing wouldhappen which he would not know?”

Major General Khadim Hossain Raza (2012) refers to the book writtenby General Niazi named ‘The Betrayal of East Pakistan’ where hedescribed General Farman as “an opportunist, a conspirator and aswindler”. “Niazi also said, implicating Farman’s involvement in thekilling of the intellectuals, that Farman requested Niazi to send himback to Pakistan, for, “Mukti Bahini would kill him of his allegedmassacre of the Bangalees and intellectuals on the night of 15–16December. It was a pathetic sight to see him pale and almost on theverge of break down”.

This section shows that Jamaat leaders not only provided verbal,moral support, religious justifications of Pakistani army’s atrocitiesbut also aided, abetted the enemy and volunteered/activelyparticipated in the murder, rape, looting, burning, including murder ofthe intellectuals.

Other unresolved problems in Bangladesh and an un-necessarytrial

Some patriotic people with good intention and a lot of Jamaatapologists have said that Bangladesh is suffering from many chronicproblems, deteriorated law and order situation, corruption, many


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unresolved, high profile murder cases, therefore, why shouldgovernment initiate this trial? I think it is a frumpy comparison,fraught with danger of sanitizing Jamaat’s active participation in the1971 genocide.

Let’s not try to dilute the gravity of Jamaat’s vocal and moral support,heinous attempts to offer religious justifications of torture, murder,rape, looting, arson, etc. with the general law and order situation inBangladesh for the last 42 years. Such questions also provide a moralcushion to their acts. Comparing usual lawlessness in Bangladesh,unsolved murders during Ershad, Khaleda Zia and Sheikh Hasina withthe genocide in 1971 is also an insult to the memories of the martyrswho sacrificed their lives for the independent country that we havetoday.

Pakistani army has confessed that they made “mistakes” (by raping,torturing, murdering, looting, and burning) but Jamaatis have not.They have not said “sorry” to the nation nor have they apologized.They have shown no remorse; therefore, the concept of “moving on”or “forget and forgive” does not apply to them. Jamaat-e-Islami and itsapologists may try, but it will not work.

However, the government could have managed the current situationthe way it should have. They should have known or anticipated thatJamaat would go berserk if the trials went on and/or when verdictswould be delivered. It was necessary for the government to plan andtake precautionary measures to control the situation, which it did not.Now it seems from an administrative point of view, the governmentseems totally paralyzed. Instead of relying on good intelligence,preventive and well organized mitigation action; it is solely relying onpolice action/reaction, which is never good.

Final notePolice brutality is nothing new in Bangladesh. During the AwamiLeague rule, they would use excessive force, beat up and fire on theBNP and Jamaat. On the other hand, during the BNP/Jamaat rule thesame police would use the same tactics against the Awami League. Itis also true that police in Bangladesh is not only underpaid, under-trained (like most underdeveloped countries) but also ill equipped toresponse to coordinated onslaughts from any motivated, organized,cadre based party like Jamaat. They just played into the hands ofJamaat’s ploy of extracting maximum reaction (in order to save theirown lives, lives of public and public/private properties) and resultingin deaths, which Jamaat is now showing off as police brutality aimingto destroy Islam! (Remember they were also trying to save Islam in1971?).

Any death is regrettable and those who died due to police fire mayalso come under this category. What is interesting is Jamaat’s modusoperandi. The lone survivor of 14 December mass murder ofintellectuals described in a recent TV documentary how Al Badr killedProf Munier Chowdhury and others. Some were bitten with iron barsto death and at the final point; they would insert such bars into thehead of their victims to ensure death. Jamaat-Shibir reportedly didexactly the same couple of weeks ago when they killed some policeconstables and others. It shows Jamaat-Shibir’s Standard OperatingProcedure has remained unchanged for the last four decades.

If a virulent mob attacks a police station or government building inthe UK, USA, Saudi Arabia or Iran, I do not imagine that there wouldbe no death among the attackers. One may remember the “WacoSiege” in 1993. FBI stormed (with Clinton’s authorization) a fringe,fanatic Christian religious group called Branch Davidians, which ledto the death of 76 people including women and children. In this caseDavidians did not attack police stations, FBI stormed its compound.Misguided people, people who use religion or an extreme ideologyoften use death (death of their own comrades, innocent bystandersand others) as a mean to make a point or to achieve their objectives.

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Rabiul H. Zaki is a BUET and AIT graduate currently working inAustralia.

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13 Responses to “ 1952, 1971, the genocide andShahbagh ”

Mushtaque on March 22, 2013 at 9:35 am

Zaki bhai, what a wonderful piece. It is objective and to the point. Tome, we have enough evidences agaist these colleborators to hangthem. Jamat in association with BNP is trying a controlled chaos in thename of, you said it, Islam. This is utter nonsense.

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Syed on March 20, 2013 at 1:47 pm

As you remind us of the glorious 1952 and 1971, it seems that peoplelike you conveniently forget the period between 1972 and 1975.

While you want to try Jamaat for its atrocities, you are forgetting theatrocities committed between 1972 and 1975.

At the birth of this country the hopes and aspirations of democraticBangladesh was buried deep down the earth by scrapping aparliamentary democracy and installing a one-party rule underBAKSAL with Sheikh Mujibur Rahman having extraordinary powers.Since then we never recovered from tyranny and we never will.

Remember the 1.5 million people dead from famine and post faminediseases (according to Amartya Sen); remember 40,000 people gonemissing or dead in the hands of Jatiya Rakhhi Bahini; remember SirajShikder killed in police custody; remember it took 13 minutes to scrapa parliamentary democracy and install a BAKSAL instead and therebybanning all other political parties; remember professionals wereforced to join BAKSAl; remember professionals were replaced byinexperienced and thugs at all levels; remember nationalization ofindustries (like Adamjee Jute Mills, Dhaka Dyeing and so on), capital,land; remember nationalization of 4 newspapers while banning therest; remember the corruption in distribution of relief materials andfood during famine by Gazi Gulam Mustafa the then head ofBangladesh Red Cross? These are now either conveniently forgottenor are made to forget by unwritten invisible laws!

I could go on and on. The problem is we are reminded of some historyover and over again while some other part of the history we areconveniently forgetting or as I said made to forget.

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My friend Zaki, if you wish to bring closure to 1971 atrocities, then befair and bring closure to all atrocities committed against us since thebirth of this country.

We need a ‘Truth Commission’ where all mistakes and lies by ourleaders MUST BE ADMITTED; they MUST APOLOGIZE to this nationof their wrongdoings and lies thus far regardless what ideology theybelong to.

But unfortunately we are a nation where Truth Commission will notwork – and that is the bitter truth.

Hence the cycle of violence will continue as long as Bangladesh exists.

The Hasina administration are not fools, they purposely brought thisissue of Jamaat because – ‘olot palot koray they ray ma, lutay putaykhai’! This issue ONLY serves the ruling party and their sycophants.

Be truthful & just when you analyze the history; do it from a genuinelyneutral point. Reminding us of some part of history while bypassingsome portion will not bring in a genuine closure; we will continue torun in circles of violence to which ‘our leaders’, their sycophants andtheir foreign masters will be benefited and not us – the commonpeople.

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Syed on March 27, 2013 at 11:37 am

Thank you very much for the thumbs down which reflects whatwe are as a nation!

Mr. Rabi, please do a favor, can you please HONESTLY write ahistory of what went on during 1972-1975.

Kindest Regards.

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SAH on March 30, 2013 at 3:45 am

Dear Syed one crime can not justify to do another, and letsstarts with the first one first.

Once the justice is served for the first one you know for surenext one is on the line.

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Lucky on May 12, 2013 at 6:19 pm

Can you answer a simple question – can Bengalees everbe Muslims ?

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Kamal Uddin on March 20, 2013 at 12:27 pm

Rabi bhai, it is a timely writing to jog our memories that these peoplehave never stopped using the same logic, argument and examples ofwhat they used to during the critical movements of history to preachtheir heinous activities. However, history have not witnessed anysuccess of their movements what you have religiously described.Despite knowing all failures, our oppositions have just joined inmimicking what Jamaat Shibbir utterly lies to the people. Shame onthem.

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Abul Salauddin on March 19, 2013 at 11:10 am

Dear Mr. Zaki, thank you for this well-composed, and researched-backed article. I would urge you to make attempts to publish thisarticle in international media such as CNN and BBC. It is of utmostimportance to do so to counter the pro-Jamaat propaganda machine inthe international media. I would like to bring your attention to a blog,“Bangladesh On the Brink”, published on March 13, by Toby Cadman,a paid lawyer of Jamaat, who is helping spread falsehood regardingthe war crimes tribunal and Jamaat leaders involvement in theatrocities in 1971. I see zero effort on the part of the presentBangladesh government to counter these arguments.

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Golam Arshad on March 19, 2013 at 10:16 am

So be it! My friend. Let TRUTH be the WINNER!!

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Bgboy on March 19, 2013 at 9:48 am

If anyone has committed a crime, he has to face the music irrespectiveof his Political or Religious affairs. I have absolutely no sympathy foranyone under this trial.

Unfortunately in Bangladesh, the Government (of all politicalbackground) is Full of Criminals. And because there is noindependence of the Justice System, these judges are the puppets ofthe government who is as usual persuading their own agenda.

That’s the reason – I do not support these trials…as CRIMINALSCANNOT TRY OTHER (SUSPECTED) CRIMINALS…!!!

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JI on March 19, 2013 at 6:13 am

The nation is indeed divided (or trivided, if I may coin such a word).The why is simple: Khaleda Zia wants to be the next PM, Hasina wantsto be reelected, Jamaat wants to keep their leaders/war criminalsalive and turn Bangladesh into Afghanistan (that was Shibir’s sloganat one time). So I am rather surprised Mr. Arshad would ask thisquestion.

As for the “BIG” surprise: If he knows, why isn’t he sharing the bigsurprise with others? If he doesn’t know, then it is just bluster.

I find his attempt to dismiss the article’s main point (that Jamaat didexactly the same thing in 1971 when they were killing people) bysaying today’s reality has nothing to do with the past rather curious.Since the whole trial is based on events that took place in 1971, andJamaat’s protests are about the trial, for him to say it isn’t related tothe past is a clever attempt to distract people from theevidenced-based history of Jamaat’s misdeeds and crimes presented inthe article.

However, I do agree with him that the author did a good job.

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Bari on March 18, 2013 at 11:27 pm

I do not agree with Golam Arshad’s decoupling of present from thepast. Today’s reality is everything to do in the trail blazed happeningsof our momentous past. Shahbag has not divided the nation – itremained divided from many years before its very inception. RabiulHossain Zaki has been successful in his critical analysis of the natureand extent of this division in his seminal article. Shahbag has onlybrought this division, hitherto an undercurrent, to the surface.Therefore, there exists no scope for speculations on questions likewho is dividing our nation – we already know why we are divided andfor what! Again, truth has been winners in the past, and will be thewinner in the future – no surprise in that too!

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Tarin on March 17, 2013 at 12:36 am

A very objective and multiprismed piece of article which provides apicturesque description of the forces that played against the birth ofBangladesh, their revival and continued power and the failure of theincumbent government to think before acting instead of thinking afteracting!

West pakistanis were totally unaware of the Bengali alphabets. Veryfew of them could speak and rarely write and read in Bengali. Surely,they could not have succeeded to perform their genocide without thehelp of their local patrons.

Hopefully the recent incidents and the brutality of the Jamaat willinstill some common sense on AL to solve this fiasco politically ratherthan using the police force one-handedly. The police force by allmeans have displayed their partisan political roles, weak resistance,negligence of duties, lack of punctuality and speed to protect innocentMuslims and minorities, refuse to file Twaki’s case due to politicalpressures and PROUDLY WATCHING THE CINEMA of BISWAJITgetting murdered!

What else can we expect from the police force?

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Golam Arshad on March 17, 2013 at 12:34 am

Zaki: A very long dissertation signed and saluted to its coherentvalidity in retrospection of our GLORIOUS HISTORY. My friendtoday’s reality has nothing to do in the trail blazed happenings of themomentous past. Question NOW is who is DIVIDING OUR NATIONand WHY? Tune in for BIGGER SURPRISE!! Good Job and Thank you.

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