From: dahuk@yahoogroups.com [mailto:dahuk@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Mahmudul Hasan
Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 11:42 AM
To: dahuk@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Dahuk]: An appeal for mercy
| Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 13:20:00 +0400 Maybe Sheikh Hasina and the AL-led Govt. should forgive and release them. I hope Sheikh Hasina should be kind, generous and graceful enough to forgive and release them. Mercy is a divine quality--a truly divine quality, perhaps the greatest divine quality supremely befitting in the context of a powerful giver (like her)and the helpless perpetrators already suffering a long life-in-death in the dark lonely cells for decades. It is true Sheikh Hasina is not going to get her parents and brothers back; it is true somehow she may have come to terms with her painful loss and memory over the past long years. But it is also true that she has finally got justice, in fact more than once, with the death sentences upheld by the highest court of the land. Maybe this justice would bring some closure, however uneasy that may be, to the whole story and also some precious consolation indeed to Sheikh Hasina, as much as it is possible in this life. Hanging these men would not necessarily bring the final and ultimate and perfect and absolute closure to the whole saga, anyway. So why not spare them the remaining years they would have lived and allow them a quiet exit from the turbulent scene they themselves once created? They are already old and weak and dying. I do not think anybody would relish their execution; I do not think anybody would feel happy and cheerful if these guys, sick and frail and chastened and subdued as they must be, walk the gallows to die a violent death. Everybody would rather feel sort of tired and exhausted tying the torn and tattered ends of a dilapidated worn-out cloth with a bundle of sad reflections on Second, these ex-army officers no doubt commiitted a grave and heinous crime in 1975, but they must have done it at the direct instigation, incitement and provocation of some inside as well as outside elements without which they would not have dared to do what they did. Since the other key players, both from within the party and without, including the foreign hands, who were closely behind the scene, have been able to get away with this crime without being brought to justice, why should these few alone be hanged? Third, these men had a clean record and not a criminal history. They were not terrorists or serial killes. They may have been partly motivated to resort to that devastating criminal act by the state of political unrest, economic hardship and lawless anarchy that was existing at that moment in Fourth, if these few assassins were to be hanged, they should have been hanged immediately after August 1975, just as those allegedly involved in the assassination of General Zia in 1981 were put to death immediately after the incident. If the Mujib killers were brought to justice then, without justice being delayed, there would have been no moral dilemma. If they could not be caught and hanged right away, it was not their fault; it was the fault that could be atributed to several other factors including the then political changes in I hope Sheikh Hasina, having got the fullest amount of judicial justice in the court of law and having gotten to the helm of political power, would soon be in a position to show mercy and be kind and allow these guys to retire into a quiet remorseful private life with their family. Maybe this act of kindness would make the icy hand of death touching her in her last moment much less icy and would let the departed souls of her parents and brothers and others rest in more heavenly peace! Jalal Uddin Khan Professor of English |
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