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| Jamaats stance in 71 was impractical |
| 2010-04-17 |
| [Bangla Daily Star] Jamaat-e-Islami's stance on the Liberation War of Bangladesh was different since it sincerely tried to keep Pakistan united, which was impractical, party chief Motiur Rahman Nizami said yesterday. "Jamaat wanted to resolve the crisis at that time by keeping Pakistan united and we didn't try to conceal our role in 1971," Nizami said while addressing a conference of party's district chiefs at city's Al-Falah auditorium. There might be opposing views about our stance on the Liberation War but no Jamaat leaders were involved in war crimes back then in 1971," Nizami said. Terming the International War Crimes Tribunal Act-1973 a black law, the Jamaat boss said the government's move to try war criminals is aimed at eliminating Jamaat from the domain of politics. No allegation of war crimes against a single Jamaat man could be found during the tenure of late Sheikh Mujibur Rahman when the general amnesty for war criminals, excluding four crimes -- murder, rape, arson and looting -- was declared. "The government is now trying to prove Jamaat's involvement in war crimes ... the whole world will not be able to prove it," asserted the Jamaat boss. "The trials under the International War Crimes Tribunal Act will be a great blunder. Not a single case has been tried so far under the act," he added. Why didn't Awami League try Jamaat men during their previous tenures, if they were involved in war crimes? he questioned. The Jamaat chief came down heavily on the government for power, gas and water crises, price hike of essentials and slide in the law and order. Jamaat general secretary Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed and senior assistant secretary general Muhamaad Kamaruzzaman, among others, were present at the conference. |
| Posted by:Fred |