The question is how did this man Ghulam Azam become a hardcore war
criminal in 1971? I will always remember him for his evil fatwa where
he tried to legalize the Pakistani Army's wholesale rapes as "Mutah
marriage". Thank Allah, not many people are inhuman like him.
--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, Enayet Ullah <enayet_2000@...> wrote:
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> After the partition of India in 1947, Bengali-speaking peoples in East
Pakistan (also known as East Bengal) made up 44 million of the
newly-formed Pakistan's 69 million people. Pakistan's government, civil
services, and military, however, were dominated by West Pakistanis. In
1947, a key resolution at a national education summit in Karachi
advocated Urdu as the sole state language, and its exclusive use in the
media and in schools. Opposition and protests immediately arose.
Students from Dhaka rallied under the leadership of Abul Kashem, the
secretary of Tamaddun Majlish (Tamaddun Majlish was an Islamic cultural
organization in East Bengal. Tamddun Majlish was the founder of the
historic Language Movement, a Bengali Islamic cultural organisation).
Ghulam Azam was the General Secreatry of DUCSU from 1947 to 1949.
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> Agitations of 1948:
> Students of the University of Dhaka and other colleges of the city
organised a general strike for 11 March 1948 to protest the omission of
Bengali from official use, including coins, stamps and recruitment tests
for the navy. The movement restated the demand that Bengali be declared
an official language of Pakistan. Political leaders such as Ghulum Azam,
Shamsul Huq, Shawkat Ali, Kazi Golam Mahboob, Oli Ahad, Sheikh Mujibur
Rahman, Abdul Wahed and others were arrested during the rallies. Rally
leader Mohammad Toaha was hospitalised after attempting to snatch a
rifle from a police officer. Student leaders, including Abdul Matin and
Abdul Malek Ukil took part in the procession. DUCSU General Secretary
Ghulam Azam was arrested on March 11 1948 from T.T Office along with 10
to 12 students.
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> As a DUCSU General Secretary, Ghulam Azam presented the Historic
Memorandum to then Prime Minister Liakat Ali Khan on Nov 27 1948 on the
Gymnesium ground, Dhaka on behalf of the students of the Dhaka
University.
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> In the afternoon of 11 March, a meeting was held to protest police
brutality and arrests. A group of students marching towards the chief
minister Khawaja Nazimuddin's house was stopped in front of the Dhaka
High Court. The rally changed its direction and moved in the direction
of the Secretariat building. Police attacked the procession injuring
several students and leaders including A. K. Fazlul Huq, DUCSU GS Ghulam
Azam et el. Continuing strikes were observed from 12 March to 15 March.
Under such circumstances, the chief minister Nazimuddin signed an accord
with the student leaders agreeing to some of the terms and conditions,
without complying to the demand that Bengali be made a state language.
> In the height of civic unrest, Governor-General of Pakistan Muhammad
Ali Jinnah arrived in Dhaka on 19 March 1948. On 21 March, at a civic
reception at Racecourse Ground, he claimed that the language issue was
designed by a "fifth columnFifth column (A fifth column is a group of
people who :wikt:clandestine undermine a larger group, such as a nation,
to which it is regarded as being loyal....") to divide Pakistani
Muslims. Jinnah further declared that "Urdu, and only Urdu" embodied the
spirit of Muslim nations and would remain as the state language,
labelling those who disagreed with his views as "Enemies of Pakistan".
Jinnah delivered a similar speech at Curzon Hall (Curzon Hall Curzon
Hall is part of the school of science of the University of Dhaka. Curzon
Hall meant to be a town hall, was named after Lord Curzon, the Viceroy
of India, who laid its foundation in 1904....) of the University of
Dhaka on 24 March. At both meetings, Jinnah was interrupted
> by large segments of the audience. He later called a meeting of a
state language committee of action, and overruled the contract that was
signed by Khawaja Nazimuddin with the student leaders. Before Jinnah
left Dhaka on 28 March, he delivered a speech on radio reasserting his
"Urdu-only" policy.
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> What happened after the Language Movement?
> Awami Muslim League changed its name under the auspices of Seikh
Mujibur Rahman and The Awami Muslim League turned over to Bengali
nationalism (Bengali nationalism is the political expression of
ethno-national consciousness of the Bengali people, who inhabit the
ethno-linguistic region of Bengal....). after the Movement, and shed the
word "Muslim" from its name. This nationalist approach of the party led
to alienation of leaders such as Golam Azam, as political leader, who
were supportive of the Muslim activism rather than the nationalist
approach. Leaders like Bhasani and many Muzzaffar Ahmad scattered away
from Awami Muslim League and formed other political parties - National
Awami Party (NAP).
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> As a student leader of the Dhaka University Professor Ghulam Azam was
directly involved with our Language movement from the very beginning of
the independence of Pakistan from the British. He was General Secretary
of Dhaka University Central Students Union (DUCSU).
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> For the cause of language he was arrested on March 11 1948 from T.T
Office along with 10 to 12 students. He is the man who presented the
Historic Memorandum to the then Prime Minister of the Pakistan Mr.
Liakat Ali Khan on Nov 27 1948 at the Gymnesium ground, Dhaka on behalf
of the students of the Dhaka University.
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> In 1946-47 he became the General Secretary of Fazlul Huq Muslim Hall,
polling the highest votes. Twice he was elected General Secretary of
DUCSU ( Dhaka University Central Students' Union) in 1947-48 and
1948-49. He was the first DUCSU G.S. in the post Independent era.
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> Some people wanted to vilify Azam, but, surely they do not want accept
his contribution in Language Movement, which seeded the Independence
movement.
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> Lets set the record straight!
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