Part2: Jamaat-e-Islam Bangladesh: Profile of a killer: Golam
Azam" Number One war criminal''
Dear readers,
As we all know that Jamaat-e-Islami which is now known as
Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh was heavily drawn into mass murdering, rape,
arson, looting and especially killing of intellectual during the last
part of our glorious liberation war. Jamaat or Jamatis was related with
most genocide that happened during nine months of liberation war. To
understand the genocide of 1971 and those who committed the genocide we
must recognize and identify Jamaat leaders and their heinous activities
during 1971 as well as their conspiracy against the democratic secular
Bangladesh at this time.
Most of the Jamaat leaders of today's Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh
have a very dark chapter of their life which they try to hide by all
means. Their heinous activities in the name of Allah and Islam they
committed and continue to commit crime against humanity must be
challenged. They were danger then and more dangerous now. Their
treacherous activity is challenging for true democratization of our
country where pluralistic society will thrive.
Jamaat-e-Islami who completely disagree with the basic premise of
democratic pluralistic state and society by participation of all
citizens with equal right and wants to establish Moulana Moududi version
of Islam by any means.
Deceiving, lying and conniving manipulation of two faces Jamaat-e-Islam
is in sequence with the teaching of their spiritual guide and founding
father Syed Ab'ul Ala Maududi. In page 54 of his Voluminous
"Tarjamanul Qura'an": - he said "Truth is one of the
most important principles of Islam and lying is one of the greatest
sins. But in real life some needs are such that telling a lie is not
only allowed, in some circumstances it is decreed mandatory".
Dear readers, to uncover or revisit the truth, to understand the depth
of Jamaat-e-Islam's conspiracy against our democratic institution we
have taken this step to bring Jamatis out of there closet and introduce
them to our new generation.
We must understand the true enemy of pluralistic democratic Bangladesh
is NONE BUT PAROCHIAL JAMAAT-E-ISLAM of Bangladesh.
I urge you to speak out against this vicious political identity and help
our new generation to understand them better. Please contribute!
We start our second part of this series "Jamaat-e-Islam Bangladesh:
Profile of a killers" series with Golam Azam the first Amber of
Jamaat-e-Islam Bangladesh" aiming to expose these heinous killers
and continue to uncover all other executive members of Jamaat-e-Islam
Bangladesh.
Central Executive Committee
* Maulana Motiur Rahman Nizami
Amber-e-Jamaat & President,
1. Maulana Abul Katam Muhammad Yusuf
2. Mr. Maqbul Ahmad
3. Prof. A.K.M. Nazir Ahmad
4. Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed
5. Maulana Abdus Sobhan
6. Maulana Delawar Hossain Sayedee
7. Mr. Muhammad Kamaruzzaman
8. Mr. Abdul Quader Molla
9. Mr. ATM Azharul Islam
10. Mr. Badre Alam
11. Mr. Abu Naser Muhammad Abduzzaher
12. Mr. Mir Kasem Ali
13. Maulana Rafiuddin Ahmad.
14. Barrister Abdur Razzak.
15.Moulana Rafiqul Islam Khan
Member Central Working Committee
Maulana Motiur Rahman Nizami : Amber-e-Jamaat
1 Maulana Abul Kalam Muhammad Yusuf : Senior Nayeb-e-Ameer
2. Mr. Maqbul Ahmad : Nayeb-e-Ameer
3. Prof. AKM Nazir Ahmad : Nayeb-e-Ameer
4. Mr. Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed: Secretary General
6. Maulana Abdus Sobhan : Central Executive & working Committee Member
7. Maulana Delawar Hossain Sayedee : Central Executive & Working
Committee Member
8 Mr Muhammad Kamaruzzaman : Senior Assistant Secretary General
9. Mr. Abdul QuaderMolla : Assistant Secretary General
10 Mr ATM Azharul Islam : Assistant Secretary General
11 Prof. Mujibur Rahman Assistant Secretary General
12. Maulana MuharnmadAbuTaher: Assistant Secretary General
13 Mr.BadreAlarn Central Executive Working Committee Member
14 Mr Abu Naser Muhammad Abduzzaher Working Committee member
15.Mr. Mir Kasem Ali : Central Executive & Working Committee Member
16. Maulana Rafiuddin Ahmad : Member
17. Barrister Abdur Razzak: Assistant Secretary General
18. Principal Ahdur Rob: Central Working Committee Member
19. Maulana Sarthr Abdus Salam: Central Working Committee Member
20. Prof. Md.TasneemAlam: Central Working Committee Member
21. Mr. Abul Asad: Central Working Committee Member
22. Prof. Sharif Hossain Central Working Committee Member
23. Maulana Nazrul Islam Advocate: Central Wo Committee Member
24. Mr. Ataur Rahman : Central Working Committee Member, Rajshahi City
25. Dr. Muhammad Shafiqur Rahman : Central Working Committee Member,
Syihet City
26. Principal Shah MuhcL Ruhul Quddus : Central Working Committee Member
27. Maulana Mominul Haq Chowdhuiy: Central Working Committee Member
28.Dr.AnisurRahman : Central Working Comrnittee Member
29. Prof. Fazlur Rahman : Central Working Committee Member
30. Mr. Muhammad Shahed : Central Working Committee Member
31. Maulana Farid Uddin Chowdhury: Central Working Committee Member
32. Mr. Golam Rabbani: Central Working uittee Member
33. Mr. Saiful Alam Khan Milon : Central Working Committee Member
34. Mr. Abdur Rob : Central Working Committee Member
35. Prof. Mian Golam Parwar : Central Working Committee Member, Khulna
City
36. Advocate Abdul Iatif : Central Working Committee Member
37. Principal Muhammad Izzatullah : Central Working Committee Member
39. Mr. Mominul Islam Patwary : Central Working Committee Member,
39. Maulana Shamsul Islam : Central Working Committee Member,
Chittagong_City
40. Advocate Moazzem Hossain Helal : Central Working Committee Member,
Barisal City
Jamaat-e-Islam Bangladesh: Profile of killers Golam Azam First
Amber-e-Jamaat of Bangladesh
The head (Ameer) of the collaborators (Rajakar) of Pakistani occupation
army and a heinous war criminal. The vile monster behind the genocide of
1971, rapes and molestation of 45,00,000 Bengali women and murder of
hundreds of pro Bangladesh intellectuals. In one of the photos recovered
from the archive of Pakistan military intelligence Golam Azam and his
top associate Motiur Rahman Nizami are seen handing the list of the
names of progressive Bangalee intellectuals over to the Pakistani
generals for elimination. The guru of extremist Islamic ideologies in
Bangladesh. The leader of 70,000 Razakars, Al-Badr and Al-Sams forces.
(New York Times, 30 July, 1971).
War criminal Golam Azam cartoon link:
http://www.iftwcb.org/images/ghatak.jpg
When the burden of the killing became too much for the army, the
Pakistanis enlisted and trained paramilitary units made up of
non-Bengali Muslims and Bengali collaborators from right-wing religious
parties. These paramilitary units, the al-Badr and al-Shams, worked as
informers and assassins to augment the military's gruesome task of
killing Bengalis. In June 1971 Sydney Schanberg reported on the
formation of these units:
In June 1971 Sydney Schanberg reported 'Throughout East Pakistan the
Army is training new paramilitary home guards or simply arming "loyal"
civilians, some of whom are formed into peace committees. Besides
Biharis and other non-Bengali, Urdu-speaking Moslems, the recruits
include the small minority of Bengali Moslems who have long supported
the army -- adherents of the right-wing religious parties such as the
Moslem League and Jamaat-e-Islami led by Golam Azam and Motiur Rahman
Nizami
These groups collectively known as the Razakars, the paramilitary units
spread terror throughout the Bengali population. With their local
knowledge, the Razakars were an invaluable tool in the Pakistani Army's
arsenal of genocide.'
However, In June the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Sydney Schanberg
filed a number of eyewitness accounts from Bangladeshi towns for The New
York Times. In response, the Pakistan army expelled him from the country
on June 30, 1971.
Photo link: http://www.iftwcb.org/images/gomet.jpg
Golam Azam, Rao Forman & Malek, discussing blue print for killing the
pro Bangladesh intellectuals
The Pakistan army, on the verge of defeat, was determined to wipe out
Bengali culture in one final act of barbarism. On December 14, 1971, the
Pakistan army unleashed the paramilitary units led by Jamaat-e-Islami
Al-Badr and Al-Shams to exterminate Bengali intellectuals. The goal was
to find and kill Bengali political thinkers, educators, scientists,
poets, doctors, lawyers, journalists and other intellectuals. The
al-Badr and al-Shams fanned out with lists of names to find and execute
the core of Bengali intellectuals. The intellectuals were arrested and
taken to Rayerbazar, a marshy area in Dhaka city.
There, they were gunned down with their eyes blindfolded and their hands
tied behind their backs. Jamaat-e-Islami and its leaders were in the
forefront of this planning and execution of Bengali intellectuals.
Al-Badr and Al-Shams systematically executed well over 200 of East
Pakistan's intellectuals and scholars. Professors, journalists, doctors,
artists, engineers, writers were rounded up, blindfolded, taken to
torture cells in Mirpur, Mohammadpur, Nakhalpara, Rajarbagh and other
locations in different sections of the city; and executed en masse in
the killing fields, most notably at Rayerbazar and Mirpur.
Several noted intellectuals who were killed from the time period of 25th
March to 16th December, 1971 in different parts of the country include
Dr. G. C. Dev (Philosopher, Professor at DU),Dr. Munir Chowdhury
(Litterateur, Dramatist, Professor at DU), Dr. Mofazzal Haider Chowdhury
(Litterateur, Professor at DU), Dr. Anawar Pasha (Litterateur, Professor
at DU), Dr. Fazle Rabbi (cardiologist), Dr. Alim Chowdhury
(opthalmologist), Shahidullah Kaisar (journalist), Nizamuddin Ahmed
(Reporter), Selina Parvin (reporter), Altaf Mahmud (lyricist and
musician), Dr. Hobibur Rahman (mathematician, Professor at RU), Dhiren
Dutt (politician), R. P. Saha (philanthropist), Lt. Col. Moazzem Hossain
(ex-soldier), Mamun Mahmood (Police Officer)and many others.
Noted writter Dr. Rashid Aksari stated in one of his writing "The
paramilitary force Al-Badr, which was formed in September 1971 under the
auspices of General Niazi, chief of the Eastern Command of the Pakistan
Army, was the instigator of that hideous massacre. Their objective was
to strike panic into the people by abduction and killing. It was the
military adviser to the so-called Governor, Major General Rao Forman Ali
who masterminded the whole conspiracy to extinguish the intellectuals
and the higher educated class. Had they had one week time more, they
would have killed all the Bengali intellectuals, which was a part of
their master plan. The Badr force was in fact a special terrorist
faction of the then Jamaat-e-Islami led by Moududi, Golam Azam, and
Abdur Rahim.
He continues to narrate "Immediately after submitting the killing
plan, Golam Azam, along with the chief of the Razakars, Mohammad Yunus,
and the liaison officer of the Peace Committee, Mahbubur Rahman Gurha,
went to see the training of the Razakar and Al-Badr at the Physical
Training College. From then on the Student Sangha all over the country
was transformed into Al-Badr and in the last week of November and first
half of December the list of the intellectuals was handed over to them
for abduction and persecution.
On December 4 began the imposed curfew and black out to pave the way for
abduction. The preparation for abduction of the intellectuals
extensively started from December 10. Amid curfew and black out, an
Al-Badr bus, stained with mud, picked up the listed intellectuals from
their residences. Then they were taken to the Al-Badr headquarter at
Mohammadpur Physical Training College for interrogation and persecution.
At dead of night they were taken to Rayerbazar brick field and killed.
The killing also took place at Mirpur.
Golam Azam (born 1922) the mother of all killer, is a Bangladeshi
political leader. He is also widely known as a war criminal who
collaborated with the Pakistan Army during the Bangladesh Liberation War
of 1971, particularly with regards to creating and managing the
vigilante Razakar and Al-Badr forces. Recently released unclassified
documents of the Pakistan government reiterate his role as a war
criminal. He refused to accept the independence of Bangladesh upon its
liberation on December 16th 1971, and was a permanent resident of
Pakistan until 1978, and maintained Pakistani citizenship until 1994.
Entering politics as a student leader at Dhaka University, Azam became
the secretary of the fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh in 1957.
Later, he became the Amber (president) of the Jamaat in East Pakistan in
1969. During the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971, he was accused of
collaboration with the Pakistan Army, and was also accused of war
crimes.
To the last leg of nine months long war on receiving an urgent telegram
from Maududi, Golam Azam went to Lahore, on 22 November 1971, to see
him. He could not return to Bangladesh as his citizenship was revoked by
Sheikh Mujib government. Failing to return to Bangladesh the arch
criminal went to Mecca, ostensibly, for Hajj. From Saudi Arabia Go Azam
traveled Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, Beirut and Libya to lobby against
Sheikh Mujib government and raise funds for counter revolution.
Following his extensive international PR activities Go Azam arrived in
London. From London he published the Jamati newspaper Daily Sangram on a
weekly basis. In 1974, the weekly Bichitra published a very interesting
report on Golam Azam's activities in London: In early 1974, Golam
Azam presented a blueprint of anti Bangladesh activities at a committee
meeting held in a house in East London. According to a reliable source
some Pakistani nationals were also present in that meeting.
The participants in that secret meeting were: AT Sadi, Toaha bin Habib,
Ali Hossain, Barrister Akhtar Uddin, Meher Ali and Dr Talukdar.
Pakistani citizen Mahmud Ali is one of the top Pakistanis present in
that meeting. The chair of the meeting Golam Azam said " to continue
our activities from London will be difficult. So someone has to go back
home. We ought to take risk-otherwise there will be no outcome. But if
you go home-you will have contacts. I have already contacted my people.
Everything is okay. Handing out a leaflet to all members present Golam
said it has to be distributed among the people of every village of
Bangladesh. People are with us.
According to some sources the said leaflet contained propaganda for a
proposed confederation with Pakistan. Others believed that it called for
an Islamic revolution organized using the network of mosques. Some
people were reported to have arrested near Dhaka carrying those
leaflets. Golam Azam also mentioned the proposed support for anti
Bangladesh activities from Pakistan and some other Middle Eastern
countries. (Like Zia) Golam Azam said `Money is not a problem'.
It was heard that Golam Azam collected 45,000,000 Reals from Saudi
Arabia for reconstructing the mosques of Bangladesh demolished during
the war. Shrewd Golam spent a large portion of that money to purchase a
house in Manchester in UK. Presently his son Mehedi Hasan is living in
that house. Golam' eldest son Kaifi Azmi is a senior officer in
Bangladesh Army and believed to be working as a link between ISI cell in
Bangladesh Army and Jamati Terrorist groups.
After the war, the Bangladesh government sought to remove the influence
of the fundamentalists and collaborators, and Golam Azam's citizenship
was cancelled. He chose to live in exile in Pakistan and England until
1978, when President Ziaur Rahman re-established multi-party democracy
and legalized the previously banned fundamentalist parties, and allowed
him to return to Bangladesh on a temporary visa.
Golam Azam became the unofficial Amber of the party while remaining in
the country illegally (though no attempt was made to restrain him and he
moved around openly), and his citizenship was restored in 1994 by a
decision of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh.
Ghulam Azam announced his retirement from active politics in late 2000.
He was succeeded by Motiur Rahman Nizami. Golam was Ameer of
Jamaat-e-Islami from 1969 to 2000 which is THIRTY ONE YEAR ( So called
Islamic Democracy) probably just to follow the foot step of his leader
Moududi who was also the ameer of Jamaat from its formation on 6 August
1941 till 1972 which is THIRTY ONE YEAR too.
Ghulam Azam's party, Jamaat-e-Islami, has been accused by a cross
section of political parties and secular organizations as a patron of
recently (2002-2006) rising militancy and behind a number of terrorist
bombings. Almost all of the recently arrested militants were alleged to
have links in the past to either the Jamaat or its student wing, the
Islami Chhatra Shibir some Bangladeshi newspapers such as The Daily
Star, Prothom Alo, Janakantha and Bhorer Kagoj describes Jamaat as who
favors destabilizations of mainstream politics so as to reap the
dividend from the subsequent vacuum.
Reference:
1. Liberation Museum
2. Killers and Collaborators of 1971: An Account of Their
Whereabouts, compiled and published by the Center for the Development of
the Spirit of the Liberation War
3. Commission on War Criminals of Bangladesh
4. Saiduzzaman Raushan: Speeches and Statements of Killers &
Collaborators of 1971
5. Our martyred intellectuals by Dr. Rashid Askari
6. West Pakistan Pursues Subjugation of Bengalis; West Pakistan
Pursues Bengali Subjugation by SYDNEY H. SCHANBERG
7. The portrait of Golam Azam by Dr Humayun Azad
Jahanara Imam: Ekatturer Dinguli
9. Jahanara Imam: Buker Vitor Agun
10. Sadiq Salik - Witness to Surrender
11. S M Shafiullah - Bangladesh At War
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