The last of Enayetullah Khan's full essays was printed in three instalments in New Age on September 23, September 30 and October 7, 2005. The collated essay is reprinted here [Friday, Nov. 18, 2011].
http://newagebd.com/newspaper1/special/39427.html
<< The analogies for collaboration with the Jamaat by the two mainstream major parties and not seemingly other way round, which have alternated in power since 1991 — a pattern that may not necessarily recur in the 2007 January polls — are mutually opportunistic and unprincipled. As a result, the Jamaat stands sanitised by both the parties which lay their competing claims to the legacy of the 1971 War of Independence. And lo and behold, the Jamaat is now a respectable, if not venerable, member of the establishment. >>
The fact that the validity of Mintu bhai's words are still fresh six years after he wrote them shows how stagnant the imagination of our political leaders are. Situation has, in fact, deteriorated to the extent that the nation is experiencing a set back in the overall morale of conducting the War Crimes Tribunal and trying the known perpetrators of crimes against humanity with any courage of conviction.
Farida Majid
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