There's no limit to the size of the lies you can concoct if you have no regard whatsoever for the truth.[Bangla Daily Star] Leaders of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, the party widely condemned for opposing the country's independence and collaborating with Pak occupation force during the Liberation War, is now accusing India of planning the murders of intellectuals on December 14, 1971.
All that proves is that the JeI leaders understand what a problem the murders are ...
"The intellectuals had stayed in the country till December 14, 1971 as they felt safe here. They were against a war being fought from India. That big power realised that they won't become its agents," said Jamaat's Acting Secretary General ATM Azharul Islam yesterday.
"So, it cannot be said that the big power [India] was not behind the killings of the intellectuals as the trial for the crimes was not held."
He was addressing a discussion to mark the Martyred Intellectuals' Day. Jamaat's Dhaka city unit organised the event at its Paltan office.
After the discussion, when this correspondent asked Azhar if he was refusing that Pak Army and their local collaborators were behind the killings, the Jamaat leader said he wouldn't make further comments as he had told everything in the speech.
Sensing defeat the Pakistain army and their local collaborators -- razakars, Al-Badr and Al-Shams -- on December 14, 1971 killed eminent doctors, academicians, engineers, journalists and educationalist.
They do a lotta "sensing" over there...
| It's a sensitive part of the world. Curious, though, that the Pakistani army and their local collaborators so thoroughly executed -- so to speak -- the Indian plot. One would think they'd oppose on general principles anything coming from the devious Hinjoo, as the Pakistanis so cleverly misname them. |
Jamaat's Dhaka city unit acting Ameer Hamidur Rahman Azad said they [the intellectuals] were killed because they didn't want Bangladesh to be subservient to India.
Jamaat top brass including its chief Motiur Rahman Nizami are now facing trial for crimes against humanity in 1971.
In 2007, Jamaat Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojahid in another outrageous comment said there were no war criminals in the country.