Attcks on Islam and Human Rights Violations in Bangladesh

7/29/2019 Attcks on Islam and Human Rights Violations in Bangladesh

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This material was produced on 2 Feb

2013 and does not cover all atrocitiesagainst Islam and Islamic people in

Bangladesh.


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Attacks on Islam in Bangladesh

The words 'absolute trust and faith in the

almighty Allah' has been deleted from

Constitution by the current regime.

Imprisonment of Islamic scholars

Attacks on Islamic personalities and institutions

Attacks on women wearing hijab

Continuous police raids on offices of Jamaat-

Shibir and other Islamic groups


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Beating up and murdering Islamic people on

the street

Tortures and deaths under police custody

Abductions, wrongful arrests and unidentified

murders

Torturing Islamic students at universities

Using the so-called International Crimes

Tribunal (ICT) to suppress Islamic

organizations

Total disregard of law and complete human

rights violations.


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Former and current Ameers of Jamaat

are in prison for a long time. Prof.

Ghulam Azam is now 91 years old. The

ruling party is fabricating accusations

to hang them!


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Professor Ghulam Azam (1922)Former Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer


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Maulana Matiur Rahman Nizami (1943)Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer


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Maulana Delwar Hussain Sayedee (1942)Jamaat-e-Islami Nayeb-e-Ameer


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The greatest Bangladeshi Islamic preacher of all

time is in jail for more than two years. While injail, he has lost his mother and son. Sufferings of

family members are indescribable. The

government forces abducted his defence witness.


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Maulana Abdus SubhanJamaat-e-Islami Nayeb-e-Ameer


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Ali Ahsan Mohammad MujahidJamaat-e-Islami Secretary General


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Md. Kamaruzzaman

Jamaat-e-Islami Assistant Secretary General


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Abdul Kader Mollah

Jamaat-e-Islami Assistant Secretary General


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A T M Azharul Islam

Jamaat-e-Islami Acting Secretary General


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Mistreatment of Jamaat Acting

Secretary General


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Mistreatment of senior Jamaat

leaders!


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Mir Quasem AliJamaat-e-Islami central leader


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Bangla speaking

people around the

world were

tremendouslybenefiting from

Maulana Abuk

Kalam Azads TV

programmes. But

suddenly the ruling

party Awami

League and pro-

India media

started

caricaturing him as

Bachchu Razakar.While he is

absconding, the

court gave him the

death sentence on

21 Jan 2013.


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30 January 2012: Police and Awami

hooligans killed a Jamaat man


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9 Dec 2012:Awami League men thus killed this

man on the street of Dhaka, as they suspected

him a Jamaat-Shibir man.


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This is how the forces

of the secularist Awami

League party (now in

power) beat up todeath about a dozen

Jamaat-Shibir people

in Dhaka.

Video clip available at:

https://www.youtube.com/

watch?v=vZNKDBRVmgM

28 October 2006
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The list of Jamaat-Shibir victims

(martyrs) is becoming bigger.


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Unprovoked attacks on Shibir

students

Many of them even cannot attend classes!

Police arrested many

of them from hospitals.


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They burn books

including theQuran!


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Ruling Awami League party forces in

action!


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Ruling Awami League party forces

in action!


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Islamic students are the victims!


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Ruling Awami League party forces

in action!


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Ruling Awami League party men

attack students dormitories!


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Police and ruling Awami League

party forces are in action!


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Police forces are in action!


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Mistreatment of Jamaat people


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Cruel!

57 brilliant army officers

were killed soon after

Awami League

government came to

power in 2009. What a

great lossfor a poor country like

Bangladesh!


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13 March 2009: Murder of one brilliant Islamic

student leader Sharifuzzaman Nomani at Rajshahi

University by Awami League hooligans


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Death of opposition

lawyer MU Ahmed

11 August 2011:

The police raided

opposition lawyer MUAhmeds residence in

early morning and

unlawfully arrested

him. He died soon

after that. Who can

console his family

members?


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Awami League government

brutality!


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Abductions by Awami League government forces: nobody

knows where they are! Most probably, murdered!


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22 September 2011: The trampling of democracy in

Bangladesh under the secularist Awami League regime.

This is how the police mistreated an opposition political

activist in the street of Dhaka.


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2 May 2011:

A police personnel is

squeezing the head of an

activist of BangladeshIslami Andolon, as he tried

to exercise his democratic

right to demonstrate.

Where are the

international promoters ofdemocracy now? Since

Sheikh Hasina does

everything to please her

foreign patrons at the

expense of the interest of

Bangladesh, nowadays

such repression and

atrocities go unnoticed.

5 A il 2011


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5 April 2011:

Call them Islamic militants and then beat them up! Don't

they have the right to demonstrate? Islamic groups are

the worst victims of Sheikh Hasina's fascism.


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5 April 2011:

The government

of Awami Leagueagain desecrated

Baitul Mukarram,

the national

masjid of

Bangladesh. Does

Sheikh Hasina

need to do this

to please her

foreign patrons?

Amar Desh, Dhaka, 6 April 2011:

http://www.amardeshonline.com

/pages/details/2011/04/06/7561

7#.UQMy1B03u9E
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2 Jan 2013: Police opened fire on Jamaat-Shibir people.


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17 Dec 2012 night: Islamic female students and their mentor are

raided and imprisoned! One of them is five-month pregnant.

Video clips:

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnrsjhqWnzw
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5 Jan 2012

Women came to

the Press Club to

attend a round-

table meeting to

protest police raid

and repression on

women on 17 Dec2012 night. When

they came out, this

is how the police

arrested them.

Amar Desh, 6 Jan

2012


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6 Jan 2012

The police

torturing a

pedestrian in

the street ofDhaka, as they

suspect him an

opposition

man.

Amar Desh, 7

Jan 13


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Kidnapped and killed by

government forces

A Dhaka BNP leader

was kidnapped by

government forces

on Saturday 5 Jan

2013 night and he

was found dead the

day after.

Amar Desh, 7 Jan 13


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They are tribal

Muslims in Muslim

majority Bangladesh.

Their crime is that

they are Muslims.

They are persecuted in

the tribal area and

take shelters in masjid

complexes in Dhaka.

But that does not endtheir sufferings.

Muslims are silently

being stifled in Sheikh

Hasinas Bangladesh. A

big trial for the

ummah.

Amar Desh 8 Jan 2013


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Sheikh Hasinas cruelty to Rohingya Muslims is baffling. She not

only sent them back, but also disallowed different NGOs to supply

humanitarian aid to them. Would she do this if the displaced

Rohingyas were Hindus?

Daily Star, June 18, 2012 Daily Star, August 25, 2012

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Along with

opposition

groups, especially

Islamic parties,

journalists andlecturers have

been regularly

tortured by

Chhatra League,

the student wingof the ruling party

Awami League.

This professor is a

recent victim.

Amar Desh, 9 Jan

2013

Polices and Chhatra Leagues combined pepper powder


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Police s and Chhatra League s combined pepper-powder

spray and acid attacks on teachers in Dhaka and at Rokeya

University in Rangpur (Amar Desh, 11 Jan 13)

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Chhatra Leagues acid attacks on University

lectuters in Rangpur (Daily Star, 11 Jan 13)

P li tt k t h ith


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Police attack teachers with pepper

spray in Dhaka (Sangram, 11 Jan 13)


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Attacks on Islami

University Kushtia

teachers continue

On 12 Januanry 2013

Chhatra League hooligans

attacked teachers lounge of

Islamic University Kushtia.

30 teachers were injured.

No one talks about banning

Chhatra Leagues politics.However, when Islamic

students want to exercise

their democratic rights of

holding demonstrations,

pro-Indian and pro-

government newspapers

start the debate of whether

to allow or disallow Islamic

students organizations to

function.

Picture: Daily Star, Dhaka 13 Jan

2013

Poison gases to


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suppress

opposition

parties

Sheikh Hasinas

Awami League

government

inaugurated the

use of poison gases

in Bangladeshpolitical culture.

The police have

used it recklessly

at the expense of

severe health risks

of the victims.

Picture: Sangram, 13 Jan

2013

On 2 October 2012 this


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On 2 October 2012, this

government-backed, gun-

toting Chhatra League

hooligan attacked

students of IslamicChhatra Shibir at Rajshahi

University. He then went

to a local police station to

sue Shibir men and left

without challenge.

Please read the news

story at:

http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-

details.php?nid=252332

Bangladesh Islami
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Bangladesh Islami

Chhatra Shibir

brought out a

procession in

Dhaka on 26March 2011 to

celebrate the

countrys

Independence Day.

The police foiled

their procession

unprovoked; and

this is how they

mistreated the

peaceful

processionists.

Amar Desh, Dhaka,

27 March 2011


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Unprecedented in

Bangladesh!

The currentgovernment in

Bangladesh is

the first to use

pepper spray to

thwart

opposition

rallies.

Daily Star, Dhaka, 18 Jan

2013:

http://www.thedailystar.ne

t/newDesign/news-

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A ruling

party

Awami

LeagueMP is

threatening

people!

Amar Desh,

Dhaka, 18 Jan

2013:

http://www.amar

deshonline.com/p

ages/home/2013/

01/18
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This notorious

police officer

has been

torturingopposition

leaders and

activists. Prime

Minister Sheikh

Hasina gave him

Presidential

Medal on 19 Jan

2013 as his

reward.To read the news-story,

see:

http://www.thedailystar.n

et/newDesign/news-


l
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Ruling

party

thugs

withguns at

Islamic

University

campus.

Daily Star,

Dhaka, 18 Jan

2013:

http://www.the

dailystar.net/ne

wDesign/news-details.php?nid

=265644

An innocent
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An innocent

girl died

because of

intra-gun-

fighting

between two

factions of

Chhatra

League, thestudent wing of

the ruling

Awami Leauge.

Amar Desh, Dhaka, 20 Jan2013:

http://www.amardeshonl

ine.com/pages/home/20

13/01/20

In 4 years
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In 4 years

of the

Awami

League

rule, 19

journalists

have been

killed.

Amar Desh,

Dhaka, 22 Jan

2013:

http://www.ama

rdeshonline.com

/pages/details/2

013/01/22/1841

75#.UQMvzB03u

9E
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Ruling

partyhooligans

in action!

Amar Desh,

Dhaka, 23 Jan2013:

http://www.am

ardeshonline.co

m/pages/home/

2013/01/23

Opposition
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party BNPs

Secretary

General has

been in prison

for months.

The regime has

kept brings

false chargesagainst him

one after

another.

Amar Desh, Dhaka, 25 Jan2013:

http://www.amardeshonli

ne.com/pages/details/201

3/01/25/184656#.UQMzn

B03u9E

P li ti
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Police action

on Shibir

demonstration!

Amar Desh, Dhaka, 25

Jan 2013:

http://www.amardeshon

line.com/pages/details/2

013/01/25/184657#.UQ

M0hB03u9E

Police


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Police

torture

a Shibir

student

in

Barisal.

Amar Desh,

Dhaka, 27

Jan 2013:http://www.

amardeshonl

ine.com/pag

es/details/20

13/01/27/18

4864#.UQUK

8x03u9E

Police attacks on Chhatra Shibir
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Police attacks on Chhatra Shibir

peaceful procession in Dhaka on 28

Jan 2013

Please click on the following link:

http://www.bdtoday.net/videonewsdetail/detail

/373

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students brought a

peaceful demonstration in

Dhaka to demand release

of Jamaat leaders. The

police attacked andinhumanly tortured the

processionists, which

erupted violence in the

street. The anti-Jamaat and

pro-Indian newspapers put

the blame of violence on

Shibir students. But whowere behind torching the

cars?

Picture: Amar Desh, Dhaka, 29

Jan 2013:

http://www.amardeshonline.com/pages/details/2013/01/29/1

85252#.UQbyQR03u9E

The 28 Jan 2013 street
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The 28 Jan 2013 street

violence in Dhaka was

orchestrated by the

police. They carried

petrol and matches andtorched vehicles only to

put the blame on Shibir

students. In the picture,

after arresting Shibir

students, the police are

forcing them to holdpetrol and matches in

order to make a strong

case against Jamaat-

Shibir.

Picture: Nayadiganta, Dhaka, 29Jan 2013:

http://www.dailynayadiganta.co

m/new/?p=103399

Islami Chhatra
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Islami Chhatra

Shibir brought

out a

demonstration

in Dhaka on 30Jan 2013.

Ruling party

hooligans

picked one of

them andtortured in the

street.

Daily Sangram,

Dhaka, 31 Jan 2013:

http://www.dailysangram.com/news_det

ails.php?news_id=10

7955

Islami Chhatra
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Islami Chhatra

Shibir brought out

a demonstration ,

the police used

tear-shells todisperse it, and

then the ruling

party hooligans

picked one of Shibir

men to torture on

the street. This ishow the police and

Sheikh Hasinas

thugs work

together.

Nayadiganta, Dhaka, 31

Jan 2013:

http://www.dailynayadig

anta.com/new/?p=10530

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Awami ruling

party thugs

thus beat up a

helpless

student at

Dhaka

University

campus, as

they suspect

the victim aShibir student.

Nayadiganta, Dhaka,

31 Jan 2013:

http://www.dailynay

adiganta.com/new/?

p=105354


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A police

officer is

stopping and

searching a

bus in Dhaka

to harass and

arrest

opposition

activists.

Similar searchhas been

conducted in

mosques and

banks.Nayadiganta,

Dhaka, 31 Jan2013:

http://www.dailyn

ayadiganta.com/ne

w/?p=105315

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people were

demonstratin

g in the

district of

Bogra. The

Awami party

forces and

the police

attacked and

killed fourmembers of

Jamaat-Shibir.

Sangram, Dhaka, 1

Feb 2013:

http://www.dailysangram.com/news_

details.php?news_i

d=108021

Janazah of one
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Janazah of one

martyr who was

killed by Awami

and police forces

in Bogra on 31

Jan 2013. When

people were

returning from

Janazah, Awami

party forcesagain attacked

them.

Amar Desh, Dhaka, 2

Feb 2013:

http://www.amardesho

nline.com/pages/details

/2013/02/02/185896#.U

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Tip of the iceberg

We are afraid that these few reported cases of

the widespread human rights violations in

Bangladesh under the current Awami League

government are only the tip of the iceberg.Since the government enjoys support from

many local and international media outlets,

the full extent of its criminality remains largelyunnoticed.


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In short, opposition people in Bangladesh,

especially those involved in Islamic groups, are

now stateless in their own country. Their

houses are being raided and offices burnt on aregular basis. Most of them cannot stay in

their own houses for the fear of police arrests

or abductions.

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For the sake of justice,

You may wish to do the following:

1. Spread this material to your friends.

2. Write to your government and human rights

organizations.

3. Write to local Bangladesh embassies.

4. Write to Awami League Prime Minister

Sheikh Hasina.

A draft letter


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A draft letterMrs. Sheikh Hasina

Honourable Prime MinisterGovernment of the Peoples Republic of Bangladesh

Prime Minister's Office, Old Sangsad Bhaban, Tejgaon

Dhaka-1215, Bangladesh

Subject: Stop human rights violations and release Jamaat-Shibir

and other opposition leaders.

Dear Prime Minister,

I, , am a .. citizen from the state


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of..................... I am extremely concerned about your

governments attacks on Islam and Islamic personalities, human rights violations

and repression on opposition people including women in our friendly country

Bangladesh. I urge you to take effective measures immediately to:

a. Release all Jamaat-Shibir leaders and activists who have been unjustly detained by

your government forces.

b. Stop harassing, arbitrarily arresting and unjustly detaining opposition leaders and

activists.c. Abolish the so-called International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) whose very existence is

politically motivated, and very name is oxymoronic.

d. Restore constitutionally-guaranteed civil rights of all Bangladeshis.

e. Stop human rights violations in Bangladesh.

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Signature and date

B l d h


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Bangladesh

Among the Muslim-majority

countries, Bangladesh has the

third largest Muslim population.

It is one of the poorest, but most

potential, Muslim countries.

Islamic people in Bangladesh have been


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Islamic people in Bangladesh have been

discriminated against and tortured for a long

time. Their human rights have been violatedagain and again. Since the anti-Islamic, secular

Awami League party came to power in early

2009, the situation has deteriorated drasticallyand dramatically. The main target is the Jamaat-

e-Islami party and its student organization

Chhatra Shibir. In many cases, Jamaat-Shibir

people are discriminated against at educational

institutions and are denied equal access to

employment opportunities.

B l d h J t I l i


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Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami

It is the third largest political party inBangladesh.

Jamaat-e-Islami was originally established in

British India by the great thinker Sayyid AbulAla Mawdudi (1903 1979) in 1941.

Now all South Asian countries have their own

chapter of Jamaat-e-Islami.

There was a movement in the then East Pakistan


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in 1971 to separate it from Pakistan. Jamaat

was opposed to separating Pakistan, as it

thought that a divided Pakistan would be

weak and acutely vulnerable to Indian

hegemonic designs. However, Pakistani forces

tried to crush the independence movementwhich caused a civil war. The Pakistani forces

committed large-scale atrocities around the

country, while some of the freedom fightersalso killed many Pakistanis residing in

Bangladesh.

Thus through a violent history Bangladesh


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Thus, through a violent history, Bangladesh

was born in 1971. The first Prime Minister of

Bangladesh Sheikh Mujibur Rahman throughan investigation identified 195 war criminals in

1973 and all of them were Pakistani military

officers. He introduced the InternationalCrimes (tribunal) Act 1973. The very name of

the tribunal suggests that the war criminals

were not Bangladeshi. Otherwise, the word

international would not be used.

However, after diplomatic exchanges between


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Bangladesh, India and Pakistan, the

Bangladesh government decided to follow a

Forgive and Forget policy. So in April 1974,

all Pakistani army officers were freed. Later

on, the Mujib government accused 752

Bangladeshis of collaborating with the

Pakistani army. On 31 December 1975,

however, the Bangladesh government

invalidated the collaborators law and thussettled the issue once and for all.

Since Jamaat-e-Islami was opposed to the


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division of Pakistan, in Bangladesh politics the

1971 issue has always been used against it for

politically-motivated reasons. However, in the

past no one thought of accusing the Jamaat

leaders of war crimes. The secularist Awami

League party was in power in 1996-2001. At

that time, the Awami League regime did not

raise the issue of 1971 war crimes. However,

when the party came to power in early 2009, itplanned to use the settled issue of the 1971

atrocities and thus to victimize Jamaat leaders.

Since Bangladesh was born, Jamaat people have


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wholeheartedly accepted it and shown complete

loyalty to the country. However, 39 years after

the independence of Bangladesh, in 2010 the

current anti-Islamic, secularist government

revived the defunct 1973 International Crimes

Tribunal (ICT) only to discredit and penalizeJamaat leaders. It started imprisoning topmost

Jamaat leaders one after another. It fabricated

stories and enticed and forced people to witnessagainst them. Conversely, it threatened and

kidnapped defence lawyers and witnesses.

Bangladeshi prisons are now filled beyond


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Bangladeshi prisons are now filled beyond

capacity with Jamaat-Shibir men and women.

Most topmost Jamaat leaders are languishing inprisons for years with false charges of crimes

against humanity. According to the Turkish

scholar and leader Ylmaz Balcn:If the political power insists on this wrongful

attitude and proceeds with its intention to

execute the leaders of the Jamaat-i-Islami Party,

the murders committed will be comparable to

those committed in the Karbala incident.

This material was produced on 30 December


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This material was produced on 30 December

2012. Fur updates on continuous human

rights violations in Bangladesh, you may wishto visit:

http://www.jamaat-e-islami.org/en/

http://english.shibir.org.bd/

http://www.bdinn.com/
http://www.jamaat-e-islami.org/en/http://english.shibir.org.bd/http://www.bdinn.com/http://www.bdinn.com/http://english.shibir.org.bd/http://www.jamaat-e-islami.org/en/http://www.jamaat-e-islami.org/en/http://www.jamaat-e-islami.org/en/http://www.jamaat-e-islami.org/en/http://www.jamaat-e-islami.org/en/

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