Dear Mr. Gopal Sengupta, thank you for bringing up the right topic at right time. We are encouraged from your writing.
Sincerely
Shamim Chowdhury
--- In vinnomot@yahoogroups.com, gopalsengupta@... wrote:
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> Committed to PEOPLE'S RIGHT TO KNOW
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> Saturday, October 27, 2007 12:44 AM GMT+06:00
> Editorial
> Editorial
> Editorial
> Jamaat denies its anti-liberation role
> War criminals must be punished
>
>
> We reject with unreserved repugnance the claim of Jamaat's secretary general
> Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid that Jamaat-e-Islami never worked against our
> independence struggle and there is no such thing as war criminals in the
> country. He said this before media displaying veritable arrogance and ire when
> asked about the role of Jamaat-e-Islami during the nine-month Bangladesh
> Liberation War of 1971. To our utter shock and indignation, Mujahid not only denied
> any wrong-doing by his party but was defiant enough to throw a challenge to
> the newsmen to dig into the history and find for themselves the role of
> Jamaat.
>
> We are outraged by the attempts to mock at the sacrifices of millions and
> the masses who fought for our Liberation War by those who played a terrorizing
> part in it in a bid to perpetuate the rule of the Pakistani military junta.
> We consider this unashamed utterance as impertinence of the most appalling
> kind that ought to be denounced and countered by everyone in society.
>
> The history of the dark and destructive role of Jamaat-e- Islami before and
> during the Liberation War is too well-recorded at home and abroad in various
> forms to allow seepage of confusion or misunderstanding of any kind. The
> members of this party had taken sides with the Pakistani occupation forces and
> carried out atrocities of horrendous nature on the freedom-loving people of
> Bangladesh. They had created para-military forces like al-Badar and al-Shams
> under the direct control of the Pakistani military commanders and helped them
> in picking up the freedom fighters from their hideouts. Finally, only days
> before the ultimate victory on December 16 they struck with the stealth of
> vipers in the darkness of nights to eliminate the best of our brains. The
> nation mourns this sad event on December 14 every year. We therefore wonder, how
> dark a man's heart can be to deny such painful events?
>
> It is ironical indeed that when most Pakistani people today express regret
> and sorrow, in privacy at least, at the rape and murders committed by the
> occupation forces in 1971, their Bengali quislings remain unremorseful and
> unapologetic till date. Today they deny their dark role in the Liberation War,
> tomorrow they will dare to deny the marvellous feat of the freedom fighters and
> then the very existence of Bangladesh.
>
> When Jamaat had won some seats in last two general elections and came to
> parliament we respected voters' choice and tried to convince ourselves that
> they have come to terms with reality and would now apologise before the nation
> for their nefarious role in '71. But, today, with the infuriating utterance,
> Mujahid has made it obvious that they would continue to disrespect and deny
> our Liberation War and as such our independence.
>
> We once again express our deeply-felt umbrage at the blatant comments of
> Mujahid and appeal to the people of Bangladesh to reject them with equal
> sentiments. No one has any right to rewrite the history of Bangladesh Liberation
> War.
>
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