Anything pertaining to Gen. Ziaur Rahman especially the truth about this Ray-Ban clad General will fall into deaf ear of Mr. Shah Hannan. Bangladesh has produced many charlatan "intellectuals." Shah Abdul Hannan is on the top of that coveted list, unquestionably. He would ignore all the negative traits this diabolic man Zia had and why? Because Zia wanted to create Sonar Banglastan patterning after Hannan's Prane'r Pakistan. The true mark of an intellectual is neutrality when analyzing historical facts. Mr. Hannan fails miserably in this litmus test. As time passes by, more and more historians and academics, who are involved in analyzing the dark past of 1975 massacres, are now clearly seeing that Ziaur Rahman's dirty hand in all those killings; besides, he was the sole beneficiary of all the killing that took place on August 15, 1975 and November jailhouse killing in Dhaka. Zia's tentacles went even farther. He single-handedly had rehabilitated most of the killers of Sheikh Mujib. AS per the statement made by the daughter of one of the junior military officer, Menhaz Rashid (sp.?), Zia even approached Zulfiquar Ali Bhutto to approach Muammar Khadafy to let a few of those killers settle down in Libya. One does not have to a rocket scientist to understand the fact that Ziaur Rahman was the mastermind behind Sheikh Mujib's and Jailhouse killings of AL's leaders.
Mr. Shah Hannan should be more objective when analyzing the character of this vile and petite dictator who single-handedly had turned the events of Bangladesh. As the time passes by more truth will emerge about Zia's dirty role in all the political killings of 1975. Through propaganda one could fool some people all the time and all the people some time but not all the people all the time. Gen. Zia of course had received his comeuppance. He was killed by his own folks, men of uniform. His criminality was known to his own people of the cantonment. Also, a tree is known by the fruit borne by it. Look at Ziaur Rahman's two sons! Need I say more?
A.H. Jaffor Ullah
New Orleans, LA
USA
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> Subject: [Shah Abdul Hannan] Historic Nov 7: It has Many Significance
> To: dahuk@yahoogroups.com, "mukto-mona@yahoogroups" <mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com>, witness-pioneer@yahoogroups.com, khabor@yahoogroups.com, sonarbangladesh@yahoogroups.com, sahannan@yahoogroups.com
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> The nation has observed the historic November 7 with many discussion meetings on the significance of the day.The BNP secretary general, Khandaker Delwar Hossain, on Saturday said the situation in the country was more perilous now than in 1975 and asked ‘nationalist forces’ to unite and get prepared for protest movement against the ‘undemocratic’ activities of the government. ‘Today’s context is more perilous than it was in November 1975. A puppet government and a rubber stamp parliament have been installed through got-up polls. People have started feeling the pinch…,’ he said at a discussion organised by the BNP marking the National Revolution and Solidarity Day at the Institution of Engineers. The party chief, Khaleda Zia was in the audience.  The government has turned the country into a safe haven for hegemonic forces, he said. ‘Hegemonic and expansionist forces are conspiring against the country in the way they did in 1975,’ he
> said and urged his party activists to guard against the plots. ‘The government is continuing with the move of the military-controlled government to divide BNP into pieces by filing fresh cases and attempting to extract confessions by force from the party leaders in custody. To put the government back on track and to safeguard democracy, all nationalist forces should unite under the leadership of Khaleda Zia,’ he said.
>    Delwar accused the government of being engaged in a smear campaign against BNP in a bid to weaken it. ‘Conspiracies are continuing against the party founded by Ziaur Rahman.
>    Delwar said if the events of November 7 had not taken place, the country’s independence and sovereignty could not have been protected. ‘After the August 15 killings, Mushtaq, a member of the then cabinet had become the president and many Awami League leaders had queued up to have a seat in his cabinet. On November 3, the then army chief Zia was interned by brigadier Khaled Mosharraf who declared himself as the new army chief. The Indian radio broadcast the news before we came to know about it,’ he said.  ‘In such a situation, many soldiers went to Zia’s house after midnight past November 6 and freed him from confinement,’ the BNP leader said refuting the claims that Zia had captured power. Party standing committee member Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain blasted the ‘attempt’ of the ruling party to ‘demean’ historic events. ‘They are trying to mislead the people over the revolution of the soldiers and people,’ he
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> There were many other programs by various political and civil society groups.Many columnists wrote many articles in this connection.We feel this day is important in several respects.It saved us from falling back on BAKSHAL.It also saved us from Indian domination.It also saved us from a hard socialist dictatorship .Col Taher and his Gana bahini , being hard socialists would have imposed a hard socialist regime and things like Cambodian killings would have happened.Ziaur Rahman courageously handled the situation after he was freed, put aside Taher and others, brought back discipline in the country.This was indeed a historic achievement. There is no point in demeaning Ziaur Rahman and his achievement. This also paved the way for re-assertion of Islamic identity of the nation
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