Albeit it is not very important to me who said what. We all know Ziaur Rahman actually fought the war for Bangladesh. Which is most important. The role of Sheikh Mujib and awami league is also known to all Bangladeshi. I am not sure why politicians worry so much over this issue?
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Subject: [ALOCHONA] RE: Bangabandhu Killing: Zia passively involved
Gen Shafiullah is not as devil as Hasina and her most of the sychophants, and therefore, will not be able to give untruthful statement regarding his one time sir, 'Zia' (In army those who are seniors in-terms joining dates, always says sir to their seniors as a tradition even one supercedes in position in service).
Now let me talk about truthfullness in a matter very precious item in the history of Bangladesh.
Tajuddin Ahmed, Barrister Kamal Hossain and Barrister Amirul Islam never ever said or uttered a single statement indicating Sheikh's declaration of independence (all three of them were with Sheikh until 11 PM on 25th of March). Rather, Barrister Amirul mentioned quite a few times that Tajuddin had written a declaration of independence and placed infront of Sheikh at Sheikh's residence to sign before their departure from that Dhanmodi house but Sheikh refused saying, "I will be termed by Yahya as traitor, and I do not want to be a traitor". He also asked, "You all leave Dhaka immediately." He even did not say to them to go to India. Amirul Islam did not go home, instead accompanied Tajuddin all the way to India and reached Kolkata sometime on 4th of April.
Also see the proclamation of independence at Mujib Nagar done by Tajuddin Ahmed. Did Tajuddin ahmed mentioned anything on Sheikh Mujib's declaration. No, not at all, even though, he knew that somebody (Hannan and crew) have given statement from Kalurghat on behalf of Sheikh Mujib after Zia officially declared war of independence making himself chief of revilutinary council and head of the state of Bangladesh on 26th of March. He also knew that one day later, that is, on 27th of March, on others (AK Khan, MR Siddiqui) persual, Zia redeclared on Sheikh's behalf. For him (Tajuddin) those were not important as he knew Sheikh did not do it.
Begum Zohra Tajuddin, once the prersident of Awami League (after Sheikh's assasination) had ever mentioned on that ground or will ever say anything on that ground. Because they are not sychophants and will not utter untruthful statement knowingly to please some one or some party sychophants.
Barrister Amir, Barrister Kamal, Begum Zohra Tajuddin, are still alive and should be pursuaded to say the real truth for the sake of truthful history. I do not think, Sheikh or Zia will loose or gain on this matter whatever position they have in the history and creation of Bangladesh.
Sirajul Islam, best khown journalist of BBC, received Sheikh Mujib at London Airport after he was released from Pakistan. According to him Sheikh said, "Koss ki, ami to shaottoshashon chaichhilum, shadhinota na"
Shahadat Suhrawardy
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:07:53 -0700
From: bazlul@yahoo.com
Subject: RE: Bangabandhu Killing: Zia passively involved
To: aleem53@yahoo.com; iqbalyousuf1@yahoo.com; bangladeshiamericans@googlegroups.com; faiz208@hotmail.com
From: Faizul Momen <faiz208@hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: Bangabandhu Killing: Zia passively involved
To: aleem53@yahoo.com, iqbalyousuf1@yahoo.com, bangladeshiamericans@googlegroups.com
Date: Thursday, March 17, 2011, 1:15 PM
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 12:01:02 -0700
From: aleem53@yahoo.com
Subject: RE: Bangabandhu Killing: Zia passively involved
To: iqbalyousuf1@yahoo.com; bangladeshiamericans@googlegroups.com; faiz208@hotmail.com
>> The point is: Zia was involved with August 15th killings
--- On Tue, 3/15/11, Faizul Momen <faiz208@hotmail.com> wrote:
From: Faizul Momen <faiz208@hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: Bangabandhu Killing: Zia passively involved
To: iqbalyousuf1@yahoo.com, bangladeshiamericans@googlegroups.com
Date: Tuesday, March 15, 2011, 7:13 PM
> Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 11:40:17 -0700
> From: iqbalyousuf1@yahoo.com
> Subject: RE: Bangabandhu Killing: Zia passively involved
> To: bangladeshiamericans@googlegroups.com
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> The so called 'jubiliant masses' is another fabricated creation of the killer Ziaur Rahman and gong to justify the killings of 1975. It is true though that the people were shocked and horrified and hence could not come out of their houses. We have seen the true jubiliant masses when some of the killers of Bangabandhu were hanged.
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> The current Sheikh Hasina govt. is not the beneficiary of any killings, rather this govt. is the result of mass people kicking out military dictators like Zia and Ershad and corrupt Khaleda Zia and sons.
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> From: Shahadat Hussaini <shahadathussaini@hotmail.com>
> Subject: RE: Bangabandhu Killing: Zia passively involved
> To: "Iqbal Yusuf" <iqbalyousuf1@yahoo.com>, "Bangladeshi American" <bangladeshiamericans@googlegroups.com>
> Date: Tuesday, March 15, 2011, 1:45 PM
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> The reactions of the jubiliant masses on 15th August, actively says that whole Bangladesh was involved in removing a tyrant and killer of democracy. I haven't seen any where in the article or in the written statement, where Mr. Lifshultz says involvement of Zia, in action or passsion. What he said is that Zia became benificiary. As a matter of fact, whole country of Bangladesh, each and every Bangladeshi became benificiary of that Coup Detat. Most beneficiary of the 15th August Coup Detat, was the then Awami Coteri (more than half of the Awami Leaguer). Even the present government is indirectly a beneficiary of the outcome of that change. Would Hasina and her socalled Awami Leaguers could come to form government now if that did not happen?
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> Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 19:10:08 -0700
> From: iqbalyousuf1@yahoo.com
> Subject: Bangabandhu Killing: Zia passively involved
> To: bangladeshiamericans@googlegroups.com
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> http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/print_news.php?nid=177794
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> http://www.thedailystar.net/suppliments/2011/03/taher/court-14.pdf ;
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> Tuesday, March 15, 2011
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> Bangabandhu Killing
> Zia passively involved
> Lifschultz tells HC, submits written statement on Taher killingAshutosh Sarkar
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> Lawrence Lifschultz
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> Gen Ziaur Rahman was passively involved in the assassination of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, US journalist and writer Lawrence Lifschultz yesterday told the High Court.
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> Clik here to read Lifschultz's statement
> This has become clear from the conversations with Col Farooq Rahman and Col Abdur Rashid, convicted killers of Bangabandhu, and from the book Bangladesh: A Legacy of Blood written by Anthony Mascarenhas, he said.
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> He said Ziaur Rahman was in the shadow of the whole episode of August 15, 1975 because he was very much one of the main players of the game.
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> In reply to a question from the HC, Lifschultz said Ziaur Rahman could have stopped the assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman because he (Zia) knew the plot.
> Zia was a complicated man and was the main beneficiary of the assassination, he said, adding, Zia was responsible for killing many freedom fighters including army official Khaled Mosharaf.
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> The Pulitzer Prize winner who had covered the trial of Col Abu Taher in 1976 placed his statement before the HC bench of Justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik and Justice Sheikh Md Zakir Hossain.
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> The bench is hearing a writ petition that challenged the martial law regulation under which the military tribunal was formed and Taher was sentenced to death.
> Earlier on January 20, the HC bench requested Lifschultz to appear before it to place a statement on the trial and execution of Taher.
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> Lifschultz on January 31 sent a written statement to the HC bench through the Attorney General's Office saying that Gen Ziaur Rahman made the decision of Col Abu Taher's execution before formation of the military tribunal that gave the execution order.
> Gen Manzur, then high-ranked military officer, knew with absolute certainty that Zia had decided to have Taher hanged before the "so-called trial" began, Lifschultz said in the statement.
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> "Subsequently, this fact was also confirmed to me by two high-ranking military officers, who were close to Zia at that time," he said in his January 31 statement, which was placed before the HC bench on February 3.
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> Lifschultz yesterday appeared before the same HC bench around 2:30pm and placed a written and a verbal statement before it.
> He said the trial of Col Taher was not even a show-trial since it had no projection or demonstration.
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> There existed a "Special Military Tribunal No 1" which convened at the Dhaka Central Jail. "I was there. I stood outside the prison. I watched men, like Colonel Yusuf Haider, the so-called Tribunal's chairman, walk through the prison gates," he said in the written statement.
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> It was a premeditated assassination of which Ziaur Rahman was the assailant, Lawrence Lifschultz who arrived in Dhaka on March 12 told the court.
> Although Zia had convened a meeting of the generals returned from Pakistan as Moudud Ahmed stated in a book, the decision to kill Taher was taken exclusively by Zia, he said, adding that he (Zia) had convened that meeting only to pretend that those generals had involvement in killing Taher.
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> "Moudud Ahmed claimed that Ziaur Rahman had convened a gathering of 46 "repatriated" officers to discuss the sentence that should be passed on Taher. It was well known that not a single officer who had participated in the Liberation War was willing to serve on Special Military Tribunal No 1. But General Zia's special convocation of repatriates appears to have ended with unanimous decision. They wanted Taher to hang," his written statement said.
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> "Moudud claims his source for this story was General Zia himself. In this respect, Moudud's version of events tallies with what General Manzur claimed to me regarding General Zia having personally taken the decision on what the verdict would be. One man, Ziaur Rahman, decided, on his own, to take another's life. He then asked a group of about fifty officers to endorse his decision," he stated.
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> The US journalist said he had tried to go inside the so-called court but was not allowed.
> "I had tried to meet Ziaur Rahman many times for taking an interview from him, but he did not allow me to do so," he said, adding that he was expelled from Bangladesh at that time.
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> Replying to another question from the HC, Lifschultz said he could not term it as anything other than assassination, as Syed Badrul Ahsan, a journalist of The Daily Star, stated in 2006 that it was purely and simply a murder.
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> "Syed Badrul Ahsan has called the Taher case 'murder pure and simple'. In an article published in July 2006, Ahsan writes: 'When he (Lifschultz) speaks of Colonel Taher and the macabre manner of his murder (it was murder pure and simple) in July 1976, he revives within our souls all the pains we have either carefully pushed under the rug all these years or have been allowed to feel through the long march of untruth in this country,' according to the statement.
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> Zia decided to kill Taher as he wanted to appease the army officers repatriated from Pakistan and also consolidate the grief on power.
> Taher wanted to return democracy in the country, but Zia wanted to rule the country as a dictator, he said.
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> Lifschultz said it was one of the saddest human rights violations in the whole of Asia.
> He said he had been trying to get the whole truth for so many years and he was happy that he was now in a position to disclose whatever information he had before the HC.
> The court will resume the hearing today.
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> Attorney General Mahbubey Alam and Additional Attorney General also appeared before the court.
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Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Re: [ALOCHONA] RE: Bangabandhu Killing: Zia passively involved
Nice post.
-----Original Message-----
Shaheen
If Zia was involved, the army chief at that time, General Shafiullah would have found it out later. General Shafiullah is still alive and why AL does not get his side of story?
Has general Shafiullah ever said that he thinks Zia was involved with August 15 killing?
Shaheen
--- On Thu, 3/17/11, Faizul Momen <faiz208@hotmail.com> wrote:
Dear Mr. Alim,
I apologize if I hurt you or anyone by my comments on Gen. Zia's involvement in August 15th incidents. I don't have any evidence that suggests that Gen. Zia was in the spot or spots where the inhuman killings occurred. However, here is an interview with Col. Faruque that suggests that Gen. Zia was well informed about the plan before August 15th, and he instead of denouncing the plan as a senior army officer, gave his nod as a support. He, as Lawrence Lifschultz said was in the shadow of the events during that time. And the way he honored and rewarded the so called 'sons of the sun' after August 15th, plainly accentuate the suspicion of his all-way support to the plan. The indemnity bill that Gen. Zia introduced was his strongest obvious support to the whole episode of August 15th, which indirectly implies that he prevented anyone to ask for justice even for the murder of a 10 year old kid. Plain and simple. There is doubt if Gen. Zia had to do it under any external pressure.
A murder is a murder, let us take it that way. Be it done by me or you, by Mujib or Zia.
Thanks for your time, take care,
Faizul
Col. Faruque Rahman implicates Gen. Zia with Bangabandhu killing
Bhai Faizul Momen:
Looks like you have solid proofs of what you said in your e-mail... I pulled out the following two for questioning...
Q1. Can you present the proofs you have rather than just throwing remarks?
Q2. As of 8/15/1975, the commander-in-chief was General Shafiuallah, and he is still alive. What did he (Gen Shafiullah) do when he saw Sheikh Mujib's blood in Zia's hand? How deputy chief could do such a thing with the Chief alive, healthy and in command? That general is still alive today, without facing any charge for not helping Sheikh Mujib from the danger and not punishing his deputy. Why don't you question his role? (I know why - he aligned with AL...)
>> very plain fact that Zia's hands are stained with bloods of Sheikh Mujib
The point is: Zia was involved with August 15th killings; who did what after that- that's another issue. Which 'chagal' said what or 'pagal' did what- does not change the very plain fact that Zia's hands are stained with bloods of Sheikh Mujib and his family including an 8 year old kid and a pregnant daughter in law.
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