From: Dr. Ahmad Totonji [mailto:atotonji@darmanar.org]
Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2015 7:22 PM
Subject: Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami calls for national unity to resist terrorist activities
From: Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami <international.relations@jamaat-e-islami.org>
To: Abdur Razzaq <a.razzaq@jamaat-e-islami.org>
Sent: Monday, October 26, 2015 6:38 AM
Subject: Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami calls for national unity to resist terrorist activities
http://www.jamaat-e-islami.org/en/newsdetails.php?nid=MjMwNQ==
Acting Secretary General calls for national unity to resist terrorist activities
3 consecutive bombs blasted just prior to a Tajia procession of the Shia community on the eve of the Ashura day that killed a youth and injured hundred others. Acting Secretary General of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, Dr. Shafiqur Rahman has issued the following statement on 25th October, 2015 urging to form a greater national unity to resist such brutal and atrocious incident.
In the statement, he stated that 3 consecutive bombs blasted just prior to a Tajia procession of the Shia community on the eve of the Ashura day that killed a youth and injured hundred others. The Shia community brings such procession for years. But no incident of bomb blast is ever happened in the history of this procession. Following this incident, the countrymen expected that the government would call for a national unity to resist such terrorist activities. But it is a matter of great regret that the key personnel of the government and the administration have stared blaming the opponents instead of forming national unity. Bomb blast in a Tajia procession is a remarkable incident in our national life. This incident must be investigated properly to the recurrence of such incidents. But just immediate after incident, the way the leaders of the ruling party started blaming Jamaat-Shibir for these blasts without any investigation, that would conceal the real criminal. The only way to tackle the terrorists and their terrorism is national unity. The investigation should not be hampered in anyway. We hope that the responsible persons of the government would not make any such statement that may hamper the investigation. The real criminals can be found, identified and punished only through proper and fair investigation.
The key personnel who have blamed Jamaat-shibir for the incidents, in regards to that, we clearly want to say that, immediate after the incident, Jamaat issued a statement demanding proper investigation into the incident in order to find out and punish the real criminals. We want to assert that, Jamaat and Chhatrashibir has no connection with the incident. We sincerely hate and condemn all types of terrorist activities. The countrymen want to live peacefully. If the government takes any unified effort to resist terrorism, we are ready to cooperate them in this regard.
We hope that, the responsible persons of the government would be refrained from making irresponsible comments and would try to tackle terrorism altogether. Otherwise, our democracy and development would be extremely damaged and destroyed by the malpractices like terrorism.”
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Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami
International Relations Team
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