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| Nizami, Mojaheed sued for killing 2 freedom fighters |
| 2007-12-18 |
| A freedom fighter yesterday accused Jamaat-e-Islami Amir Matiur Rahman Nizami, Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed and seven of their party men of killing two freedom fighters during the liberation war. Mozaffar Ahmad Khan, Dhaka district unit Muktijoddha commander, filed the murder case, stating that the Jamaat men killed his nephew Osman Gani and fellow freedom fighter Golam Mostafa alias Tukub Ali on November 25 in 1971. Meantime, another Dhaka court will give order today on whether to approve of registering a sedition case against Mojaheed, Abdul Quader Mollah and Shah Mohammad Hannan, former chairman of Islami Bank, as a regular one. On December 5, freedom fighter Fazlur Rahman filed the sedition case with Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court for the three men's anti-liberation activities. Recording the statement of Mozaffar Ahmad Khan, Judicial Magistrate Ashiqul Khabir directed officer-in-charge at Keraniganj Police Station to register the double murder as a first information report. The court also asked the OC to take action against the accused after investigation into the matter. Mozaffar showed eight people, including himself and the victims' parents, as witnesses in the case. Other accused are two assistant secretary generals of the Jamaat, Mohammad Abdul Quader Mollah and Mohammad Quamruzzaman, Keraniganj upazila unit Amir Haji Nazim Uddin, Islami Chhatra Sangha leader KG Karim Babla, and Abul Kashem, Foyzur Rahman Foyaz and Yasin. The last three were al-Badr, Razakar and al-Shams activists during the war. Complainant Mozaffar said sixty to seventy other unknown activists of the three militias took part in killing, torching and looting valuables in Keraniganj on the day. He mentioned that the accused formed collaborating forces like Razakar, al-Badr and al-Shams during the liberation war with a view to exterminating the Bangali nation. Nizami was made al-Badr commander of Pakistan while Mojaheed acted as commander of its East Pakistan wing, said the complainant adding that Quader and Quamruzzaman and their other accomplices also formed the higher rung of al-Badr. The three militias took to indiscriminate killing of freedom fighters and intellectuals on orders from Nizami, Mojaheed, Quader and Quamruzzaman, he said. On directives from the four, the other accused killed countless people in Keraniganj and torched their houses. They also raped women in the area. The plaintiff said on November 24 in 1971, when the nation was on the threshold of victory, his nephew Osman Gani and Golam Mostafa went to their houses to meet their parents and relatives. The next day al-Shams and al-Badr militias, dressed in grey, surrounded their houses and hacked them to death with sharp weapons at about 8:30am, Mozaffar said adding that he went to the spot with his force on information only to find that the four Jamaat leaders had sent in Pakistani force there who, along with their local collaborators, torched hundreds of houses and killed countless people in the area. The two victims are state-acknowledged freedom fighters for which their families now get government allowances. The victims' families never got justice even though they went door to door for justice, he said adding that the accused were behind bars till 1975 but walked out of prison after the annulment of Collaborators Act in December 31, 1975. The complainant said as the subsequent governments ran their regimes with the assistance of al-Badr, al-Shams and Razakar, the families did not get justice from them. Advocates Abu Mohammad Abdur Razzak and Ashraful Islam appeared for the complainant. Meantime, Fazlur Rahman's sedition case statement mentioned that Mojaheed, who was social welfare minister during the four-party coalition government of the BNP, denied his party's anti-liberation role on October 25 this year and also claimed that anti-liberation forces never existed in the country. On the next day, Hannan termed the liberation war a 'civil war' in a private satellite television talk show and made derogatory remarks about it. Quader Mollah at a discussion on October 31 said freedom fighters joined the liberation war to have beautiful Indian women and for grabbing Hindu property. Three criminal cases were filed against Quader with a Madaripur court for his derogative remarks. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Actually, the literate write the history. Sometimes that's the winners. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-12-18 15:08 |
| #2 Sea, the winners always write the history. This appears to be an attempt by the losers to write a sympathetic version. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2007-12-18 01:15 |
| #1 I've got the program; still can't tell the players apart. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2007-12-18 00:50 |