Ziaur Rahman had no principle of any sort. He was, for example, neither an Islamist nor a true nationalist. He always used to be guided by one philosophy: power. If I remember correctly, his first advisory board included secular minded people. It is heard he wanted AL to recognize him as its leader. Ayub Khan succeeded but he did not. Then he turned to the extreme rightists. He knew well how to make politics difficult. Many leftists (pro-Chinese) strengthened his hands. His apparent anti-Indian stance helped him get the support from both Islamist and the pro-Peking groups. He resorted to conspiracies to eliminate his real and potential opponents. He was able to create an image for himself that he was a true Bangladeshi nationalist which, I doubt, he was. His misdeeds are many. One of the worst one was to pollute the constitution by throwing out it the real secularism principle. Another one was to block the trial of the 1975 August killers.
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On Nov 22, 2015, at 12:26 PM, Shah DeEldar shahdeeldar@gmail.com [mukto-mona] <mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
"In his effort to create a political base for himself, Zia, though himself a freedom fighter, brought into politics known razakars and all the Jamaat war criminals who went into hiding after independence and thus opened up the path for Jamaat-e-Islami's revival, the party that fought tooth and nail against our freedom struggle and participated, alongside the Pakistani army, in the genocide of our people. He also allowed Ghulam Azam into the country in 1978 on the pretext that the Jamaat leader wanted to see his mother."- M. Anam
http://www.thedailystar.net/frontpage/another-step-towards-justice-176629
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