Bangladesh sentences Islamist leader to death for war crimes

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Twenty Charges against Delwar Hossain Sayedee

Heinous conspiracy against humanity, including myriad incidents of Hindu persecution, had been the foremost trait of Delawar Hossain Sayedee in 1971. He had not been collaborator of the Pakistani Army then only but acted as their most imperative accomplice to find out and racially exterminate Bengali Hindus also.


1. On May 4, 1971, Delawar Hossain Sayedee as a member of Peace (Shanti) Committee carried secret information to the Pakistan army about a gathering of a group of people behind the Madhya Masimpur bus-stand under Pirojpur Sadar and took the army to the spot. The army killed 20 unnamed people by firing.

2. On May 4, 1971, Sayedee along with his accomplices accompanied by the Pakistan army looted belongings of members of the Hindu community living in Masimpur Hindu Para under Pirojpur Sadar. They also set the houses of Hindus alight and opened fire on the scared people, who started fleeing the scene, killing 13 people.

3. On May 4, 1971, Sayedee led a team of the Pakistan army to Masimpur Hindu Para, where the team looted goods from the houses of two members of the Hindu community -- Monindra Nath Mistri and Suresh Chandra Mondol -- and destroyed their houses by setting them on fire. Sayedee also directly took part in the large-scale destruction by setting fire to the roadside houses of villages Kalibari, Masimpur, Palpara, Sikarpur, Razarhat, Kukarpara, Dumur Tola, Kalamtola, Nawabpur, Alamkuthi, Dhukigathi, Parerha and Chinrakhali.

4. On May 4, 1971, Sayedee and his accomplices, accompanied by the Pakistani army looted the houses of members of the Hindu community and opened fire indiscriminately on them in front of Dhopa Bari and behind the LGED Building in Pirojpur, leaving four persons killed.

5. Sayedee declared publicly to arrest Saif Mizanur Rahman, then deputy magistrate of Pirojpur Sub-division, when the magistrate organised a Sarbo Dalio Sangram Parishad to inspire people to join the Liberation War. On May 5, 1971, Sayedee along with his associate Monnaf (now deceased), a member of Peace (Shanti) Committee, accompanied by the Pakistan army picked up Saif from the hospital where he was hiding and took him to the bank of the Baleshwar river. On the same date and time, Foyezur Rahman Ahmed, sub-divisional police officer, and Abdur Razzak (SDO in charge of Pirojpur), were also arrested from their workplaces and taken to the river bank. Sayedee as a member of the killer squad was present there and all three government officials were gunned down. Their bodies were thrown into the river Baleshwar. Sayedee directly participated and abetted in the acts of abduction and killing of those three officers.

6. On May 7, 1971, Sayedee identified the houses and shops of Bangalees belonging to the Awami League, Hindu community and supporters of the Liberation War at Parerhat Bazar under Pirojpur Sadar. Sayedee as one of the perpetrators raided those shops and houses and looted valuables, including 22 seers of gold and silver from the shop of one Makhanlal Saha.

7. On May 8, 1971, Sayedee led a team of the Pakistan army to the house of Nurul Islam Khan, where he identified Nurul Islam as an Awami League leader and his son Shahidul Islam Selim as a freedom-fighter to the army. Sayedee then detained Nurul Islam and handed him to the army, which tortured Nurul Islam. His house was then looted and finally set on fire.

8. On May 8, 1971, Sayedee and his accomplices accompanied by the Pakistan army raided the house of one Manik Posari at Chitholia under Pirojpur Sadar and caught his brother Mofizuddin and one Ibrahim. Sayedee's accomplices then burnt five houses there. On the way to the Pakistani army's camp, Sayedee instigated the members of the occupation force to kill Ibrahim by gunshot and dump his body near a bridge. On the other hand, Mofiz was taken to the army camp and tortured. Sayedee directly participated in the abduction, murder and persecution of the victims.

9. On June 2, 1971, armed associates of Sayedee under his leadership and accompanied by the Pakistani army raided the house of one Abdul Halim Babul at Nolbunia under Indurkani Police Station and looted valuables from Halim's house. The team then reduced the house to ashes.

10. On June 2, 1971, Sayedee's armed associates under his leadership and accompanied by the Pakistan army burnt 25 houses of a Hindu Para in Umedpur village under Indurkani Police Station. At one stage, a victim, Bisabali, was tied to a coconut tree andwas shot dead by Sayedee's accomplice.

11. On June 2, 1971, Sayedee led a team of Peace (Shanti) Committee members, accompanied by the Pakistani army, to raid the house of Mahbubul Alam Howlader (freedom-fighter) of Tengra Khali village under Indurkani Police Station. Sayedee and the team then detained Mahbubul's elder brother Abdul Mazid Howlader and tortured him, and looted cash money, jewellery and other valuables from the house.

12. One day a group comprising 15-20 armed accomplices of Sayedee under his leadership entered the Hindu Para of Parerhat Bazar under Pirojpur Sadar and captured 14 Hindus, who were all supporters of Bangladesh's independence. The fourteen were then tied with a single rope and dragged to Pirojpur and handed over to Pakistani soldiers, who killed them. Their bodies were thrown into the river.

13. One night, about 2 to 3 months after the war commenced, some members of Peace Committee under Sayedee's leadership accompanied by the Pakistan army raided the house of Azhar Ali of Nalbunia village under Pirojpur Sadar Police Station. They then caught and tortured Azahar Ali and his son Shaheb Ali. The team then abducted Shaheb Ali and ultimately he was taken to Pirojpur and killed.

14. During the final stages of the war, Sayedee one morning led a team of Razakar Bahini consisting of 50 to 60 Razakars, into attacking the Hindu Para of Hoglabunia under Pirojpur Sadar. Seeing the attackers, the Hindus managed to flee but one Shefali Gharami failed to do that. Some members of Razakar Bahini entered her room and raped her. Being the leader of the team, Sayedee did not prevent them from committing rape upon her. Sayedee and the members of his team also set fire to the dwelling houses of the Hindu Para.

15. During the last part of the war, Sayedee led 15 to 20 armed Razakars who entered the Hoglabunia village under Pirojpur Sadar Police Station and caught 10 members of the Hindu faith. The attackers then tied all the members of Hindu community with a single rope, dragged them to Pirojpur and handed them over to the Pakistani army. They were all killed and their bodies were dumped into the river.

16. In the course of the Liberation War, Sayedee led a group of 10-12 armed Razakars and Peace Committee members, which surrounded the house of Gouranga Saha of Parerhat Bandar under Pirojpur Sadar. Subsequently, Sayedee and the others abducted three women and handed them over to the Pakistan army at Pirojpur where they were confined and raped for three days before being released.

17. During the Liberation War, Sayedee along with other armed Razakars kept Bipod Saha's daughter Vanu Saha confined to Bipod Saha's house at Parerhat under Pirojpur Sadar Police Station and regularly used to go there to rape her.

18. During the Liberation War, one Bhagirothi used to work in the camp of the Pakistan army. One day, after a fight with the freedom fighters, and at the instance of Sayedee, Bhagirothi was charged with passing information to the freedom fighters and killed.

19. During the war, Sayedee, being a member of Razakar Bahini and exercising his influence over the Hindu community of Pirojpur, converted 100-150 Hindus of Parerhat and other villages and compelled them to go to the mosque to offer prayers.

20. On a day at the end of November 1971, Sayedee got information that thousands of people were fleeing to India in order to save their lives. A group of 10-12 armed members of the Razakar Bahini, under Sayedee's leadership, then attacked the houses of Talukdar Bari at Indurkani village and detained a total of 85 persons and looted goods from there. Of them, all but 10-12 persons were released in exchange for bribes negotiated by Fazlul Huq, a member of the Razakar Bahini. Male persons were tortured and female persons were raped by Pakistan soldiers deployed in the camp.

 

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West Bengal Muslims support Sayedee, Jamaat-e-Islami in Bangladesh

Contrary to the present developments in Bangladesh where an upsurge of emotion against Islamists is being witnessed, Muslim radicals in West Bengal stand for Delwar Hossain Sayedee and Jamaat-e-Islami with conviction. This came to light through a press conference (held recently) by a host of Muslim outfits in Kolkata. Even if they expressed their concerns as regards the chaotic situation in Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina and her government were held culpable for the entire development.

Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, through a statement made in public, stated, "It was not in the interest of either Bangladesh or our country that Bangladesh should become victims of chaos. As a neighbor it is our duty to save Bangladesh from plunging into a civil war. So, we urge our government to impress upon Dhaka to abolish the so called war crimes tribunal and stop atrocities on Jamaat-e-Islami and other Islamic organizations."

While speaking at the press conference, Mohammed Qamruzzaman, general secretary – All Bengal Minorities Youth Federation, along with blasting the Bangladesh premier and extolling Sayedee, said, "We had recently filed a deputation to the Bangladesh High Commissioner and it clearly didn't have any effect. We now urge our President Pranab Mukherjee to cancel his trip to Bangladesh as a mark of protest against the government atrocities there."

Terming the death sentence Delwar Hossain Sayedee as per ruling of the International War Crimes Tribunal in Bangladesh a farce, Abdul Aziz, president, Milli Ittehad Parishad, said "After 42 years, there is hardly any witness or evidence left to sentence him to death. There should be a fair trial and not a point blank death punishment."

On March 3, 2013, in an urgent meeting called by Bengal Imam Council, death sentence awarded to Delwar Hossain Sayedee and responsibility of Government of Bangladesh were censured severely. Hafez Raisuddin Purakait, general secretary of the Council, while talking to press, confirmed the death sentence as part of a heinous conspiracy to denounce true warriors of Islam. He also said that a memorandum, demanding unconditional release of Delwar Hossain Sayedee, would be sent to various Islamic countries, United Nations, President and Prime Minister of Bangladesh soon.

Imam Council would also be present at the grand assembly (called by various Muslim organizations to protest the heinous conspiracy against Sayedee and Jamaat-e-Islami in Bangladesh) at Shahid Minar, Kolkata on March 26.

HINDU SAMHATI: West Bengal Muslims support Sayedee, Jamaat-e-Islami in Bangladesh

 

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Hindus under attack in Bangladesh

Conspicuous by its absence on Indian news television, the current crisis in Bangladesh is nothing less than history catching up with the young nation after war and ethnic cleansing at the hands of the Pakistani army in 1971 gave it wounds that have remained unhealed for more than four decades.

After Islamists amended the young nation's Constitution in 1977 and 1988 to make "absolute trust and faith in the Almighty Allah as the basis of all actions" its fundamental guiding principle, it was not until 2010 that a Tribunal was set up to provide justice to those who had been slaughtered by Rezakars in the aftermath of Bangladesh's war of independence.

Awarding of life imprisonment to Jamaat leader Abdul Quader Mollah and death sentences to war criminals Abul Kalam Azad and Delawar Hossain Sayedee followed have triggered a fresh wave of attacks on Hindus in the country.

Daily Star reports that on Saturday alone, members of the Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir have attacked and destroyed six temples and set fire to several Hindu houses and business in Noakhali, Gaibandha, Chittagong, Rangpur, Sylhet, Chapainawabganj and Rajganj. These attacks of course, are in addition to the violence unleashed by Islamists in the last three days in which more than a dozen people have lost their lives.

The situation, perhaps not surprisingly, is reminiscent of the state of affairs that prevailed during the early days of the Bangladeshi Government's tryst with Islamists when Sheikh Mujibur Rahman declared a general amnesty for Islamists against whom trials had not yet been initiated. Rahman was assassinated in 1975, paving the way for a series of military coups and a general chaos that still lasts.

The current Sheikh Hasina Government too, in its turn, seems unwilling to anger rioting Jamaatis and is in no mood to do anything about the riots that seem to be killing the country's Hindus. Political motivations that kept Mujibur Rahman from coming down hard upon Islamists in the beginning of the nation's history hold the Government hostage still.

The persecution of Bangladeshi Hindus in the wake of a setback to the Islamist cause is happening exactly as it did back in 1971. Back then, the reason was the Bangladeshi freedom movement. This time, the reason is justice catching up with the war criminals.

>> In Chittagong, Jamaati Islamists attacked Hindu majority localities at Jaldi union of Banshkhali upazila and set fire to a Buddhist temple.

>> Jamaat members also burned houses at Dhopapara and Mohajonpara and attacked people with sticks, iron rods and sharp weapons.

>> The rioters also burned three shops belonging to Hindus at Kaliash union of Satkania upazila.

>> Members of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir attacked a temple and business establishments belonging to Hindus at Bhelkobazar in Sundarganj upazila of Gaibandha district.

>> Rioters also vandalised some houses in Shovaganj union.

>> Vandalism, arson and looting took place in temples, houses and business establishments of Hindus in Sylhet, Rangpur, Thakurgaon, Laxmipur and Chapainawabganj.

>> Attackers had vandalised the central Kali temple at Mithapukur upazila in Rangpur and another at Kansat in Chapainawabganj.

Jago Bangla: Hindus under attack in Bangladesh

 

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Bangladesh LIVE! Jamaatis torch yet another temple in Lalmonirhat

Bangladesh LIVE! Jamaatis torch yet another temple in Lalmonirhat | Niti Central

At least 70 people were injured in Wednesday's clashes between activists of the Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir, and the police guarding a BNP-sponsored hartal in Dhaka.

Jamaat-Shibir men attacked policemen with homemade bombs which forced them to retaliate, turning the otherwise peaceful BNP rally violent, a Daily Star report said.

Following the clash, BNP leaders called for a nationwide dawn-to-dusk hartal on Thursday in protest against what it alleged were attacks by armed Awami League party men and police brutality towards its activists, the report said.

"Ruling party men attacked our peaceful demonstration in connivance with the police without any provocation. It's part of the Government's conspiracy to foil our programme. We are stunned by the incident," BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said.

He claimed that 1,500 BNP leaders and activists were injured in the incident.

BNP activists resorted to vandalism, torching of vehicles and pelted law enforcers with brick chips outside its headquarters in Dhaka in response to the violence.

Several leaders of the BNP suffered rubber bullet injuries during the violence and others took shelter inside the party's office.

Almost immediately after the BNP hartal was called, the Jamaat-e-Islami, whose top leaders are behind bars in connection with committing crimes against humanity, issued a press statement calling for a nationwide hartal on Thursday.

Bangladesh has witnessed a deadly spate of Jamaat-sponsored terror since last Thursday, when the vice-president of the party Delawar Hossain Sayedee was sentenced to death by a war crimes tribunal for crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War.

 

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Send all-party delegation to Bangladesh: BJP

https://www.niticentral.com/2013/03/07/bjp-send-all-party-delegation-to-bangladesh-53026.html

In the wake of ongoing crisis in Bangladesh, the BJP on Thursday demanded that an all-party delegation should be sent to the neighboring country to assess the atrocities on Hindus by Jamaat-e-Islami.

Raising the issue in the Rajya Sabha during the Zero Hour, BJP MP Tarun Vijay said atrocities are being committed on Hindus, who have been reduced to only nine per cent of the population now from 28 per cent at the time of creation of Bangladesh.

"Hindus are subjected to severe atrocities"¦they are being killed, forced to take refuge in India, and their abandoned properties are seized after being declared as wasteful property," he said.

"Hindus are subjected to severe atrocities"¦they are being killed, forced to take refuge in India, and their abandoned properties are seized after being declared as wasteful property," he said.

He lauded the recent Shabag uprising saying it was a display of secular democratic forces that all Hindus, Muslims, Christians and Bengalis were Bangladeshis. Vijay said Jamaat-e-Islami had sided with Pakistan during 1971 war and later when three of their leaders were hanged, scores of Hindus killed, women raped and murdered and the atrocities were still continuing in retaliation.

Chandan Mitra (BJP) seeking Government intervention said, "Situation is explosive at this juncture in Bangladesh. Jamaat-e-Islami, backed by Pakistan and ISI and Huji, was creating a situation where Hindus and Buddhists were subjected to atrocities and 78 Buddhist places were torched."

Mitra, who had accompanied President Pranab Mukherjee to the neighbouring nation during his recent visit, said the delegation held talks about the situation with the authorities in Bangladesh.

Party colleague Ravi Shankar Prasad said it was violation of human rights in Bangladesh and demanded a response from the Government. To this, Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Rajiv Shukla said, "I will convey the feelings of the House to External Affairs Minister and he will give a response."

 

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Bangladesh crisis: Islamists vandalise 23 Shiva idols

Bangladesh crisis: Islamists vandalise 23 Shiva idols | Niti Central

Several bombs exploded in Bangladesh's capital and police clashed with protesters Tuesday as Opposition leaders enforced a daylong, nationwide general strike over police intimidation.

Witnesses and news reports said several homemade bombs exploded during the beginning of the shutdown. RTV and Bangla Vision stations reported explosions in parts of Dhaka. It was not clear if there were any injuries.

Clashes were reported inside and outside Dhaka, and thousands of security officials were deployed in the capital to maintain order.

Nearly 400 members of paramilitary Bangladesh Border Guard were also deployed to aid police in Dhaka, said Major Gen. Aziz Ahmed, the force's director general.

Schools and most businesses in Dhaka remained closed on Tuesday. Traffic was thin on the usually clogged streets.

An 18-party Opposition alliance led by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, or BNP, was enforcing the strike to protest alleged police intimidation during a rally on Monday.

The party and its allies are demanding restoration of a caretaker Government system to oversee upcoming elections. Its ally Jamaat-e-Islami also wants a halt to trials of several Opposition politicians accused of crimes stemming from the country's 1971 independence war.

After Monday's rally, police arrested some senior leaders and more than 100 activists of the BNP, headed by former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, in Dhaka during a raid on its party headquarters. Police said they also recovered at least 10 homemade bombs from the headquarters. But the party blamed police for keeping those bombs inside the headquarters to create a drama.
BNP's acting secretary general, Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, and a former mayor of Dhaka City Corporation were among those arrested.

Zia, in a late-night meeting with senior party leaders, criticised the Government for the arrests and later announced similar nationwide shutdown for March 18 and 19 if the detained senior leaders are not freed immediately.

Zia's party and Jamaat-e-Islami have denounced the trials of several Opposition politicians accused of mass killings and atrocities during Bangladesh's 1971 independence war against Pakistan.

Bangladesh says the war left 3 million people dead, 200,000 women raped and forced millions to flee to neighbouring India. Jamaat-e-Islami campaigned against the independence of Bangladesh, but denies committing any atrocities.

The administration of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina initiated the trials in 2010 and three verdicts have already been declared. Ten of the defendants are from Jamaat-e-Islami, the country's largest Islamic party, while the other two belong to the BNP.

Two of the senior party members of Jamaat-e-Islami have been convicted, one sentenced to death and another to life in prison. Another former member of the Islamic party has been sentenced to death. The sentencing sparked violent clashes between opposition activists and police, leaving about 70 people dead in recent months.

 

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Karma catches up with Jamaat

The Shabagh sit-in has robustly survived for a month and its strength and resolve seem to be growing. Veteran Mukti Joddhas, enthused by the response of youth, see in this a second struggle for liberation from shackles of fundamentalist Rezakars and their Pakistani mentors who have always worked to throttle the full emergence and consolidation of a Bengali identity. The protestors have resolved to continue with the signature campaign for another month till the April 7.

Among the major demands of the campaign is the completion of the war crimes trial, the hanging of the Jamaat leaders who collaborated with the Pakistani Army in its pogrom against the people of East Pakistan during 1971 and the banning of the party altogether. It is the first time since 1971 that the Bangladeshis have witnessed such a massive and sustained outpouring in support of the ideals of the Liberation War. The Jamaat's countrywide mayhem, its targetted attacks and killings of law enforcers, its destructions of Hindus' home and hearth, their temples and business establishments have not been able to cow down the protestors at Shabag.

But Bangladesh is in the grips of a death fight between progressive forces of democracy and stability and those who wish to push it to the brink and Wahabise it. They are working overtime at the behest of their external mentors. 'Basher Kella', the Facebook page run by Jamaat-Shibir activists, for example, called for a 'Bangladesh-Pakistan-Islamic Republic of Banglastan' where only Muslims will live after exterminating Hindus and other minorities. The Jamaat has never fully severed its umbilical ties with the Pakistani military establishment and the Pakistanis have never abandoned them. How can they dump those who have been their comrades in arms in perpetrating one of largest genocides in human history. The US establishment too has never raised the Jamaat issue publicly nor called for their trials. It is easier for it to deal with banana dictators and warlords than with those who are under the protection of their so-called principal collaborator in the 'war on terror' in South Asia. The main opposition BNP is fully in tune with the Jamaat's objectives and is also orchestrating the countrywide shutdowns and unrests. Khaleda's cancellation of her meeting with the Indian President through an email communication and then calling a separate spate of hartals is actually the carrying out of the Jamaat and the Islamic Oikya Jote agenda. Each one is riding on the other in order to strengthen its fundamentalist credentials.

The Indian Prime Minister, gullible as he is in handling foreign affairs, had feted Khaleda on her visit last November. He met her for an hour and even hosted a lunch, perhaps the first ever in honour of a leader of Opposition. The naïve Salman Khurshid was ecstatic when Khaleda assured him then" 'this marks a new beginning. Let's look forward and not look back in the rear-view mirror.' Little did they know that the lady was a past master at changing colours and was an inveterate foe when it came to India and Hindus. During Khaleda's visit, the Indian establishment had even prematurely indicated that it was ready to do business with Khaleda, implying that it was already considering a BNP dispensation in the next elections. The blinkered Indian PM and his even more isolated five star advisors must have failed to see that it is in the character of the BNP to go the extra mile to accommodate the Jamaat, and the extra mile has always seen an increase in anti-India rhetoric, providing sanctuaries to insurgents and militants from the North-East and the ethnic cleansing of the Bangladeshi Hindus. Let us not forget that Khaleda's coming to power in 2001 saw one of the largest anti-Hindu pogroms in Bangladesh in recent times and the Awami League-appointed Shahabuddin Commission report which investigated the attacks has indicated at organised violence with BNP-Jamaat imprints. What compels UPA to look the other way when it knows that AL and Hasina remain the best bet for India, for the region, and for the Bangladeshi Hindus, is hard to comprehend. Mortgaging India's foreign interests has become a habit with it.

The recent spate of anti-Hindu violence, especially in the last one week since the ardent and fawning Pakistani collaborator and Jamaat vice president Delawar Hossein Sayeedi was sentenced by the International Crimes Tribunal to be 'hanged by the neck till he is dead', has been particularly unsettling. Within a day of the announcement the old pattern fell into place and the Jamaat's ire was directed at the Hindus. It has demonstrated that the Jamaat's core agenda – obliterating Hindus from Bangladesh – remains undiluted and its organisational capacity to wreak havoc remains intact. Incidents of violence against Hindus were reported from all over the country including Noakhali, Bogra, Chapainawabganj, Chittagong, Barisal, Dinajpur, by March 4 more than 100 temples were vandalised and 1000 homes, at conservative estimates, attacked and burnt. The Hindus' business establishments were ransacked and their women terrorised. Leading Bangladeshi dailies calling for a halt had termed the pogroms a fallback to 1971. But we did not even hear muted protests from the international community. The US State Department merely said that it has taken note of 'reports of attacks on a Hindu temple' and our own homegrown secularists have not let out as much as a grunt in protest. I had hoped to hear at least a whimper from the faithful Mani Shankar Aiyar, that perpetual honorary Pakistani Consul-at-Large in India!

The Jamaat leaders facing the war crimes trial is the worst of the lot – in fact with the Pakistani army in 1971 it was they who formed the real 'axis of evil' aiding and abetting the murder and rape of thousands of their fellow citizens. Sayeedi, then a lowly Urdu- knowing 'grocery shopkeeper' in his thirties had earned distinction from the Pakistani establishment for his atrocities on Hindus. As the local commander of the Al Badr and Al Shams in his area Sayeedi had particularly targeted Hindus, arranging for their women to be raped by Pakistani Army personnel, himself confining and molesting them, forcibly converting them to Islam and of killing some of them in cold blood. Politically, in later years, his anti-India stance and his anti-Hindu rhetoric had earned him a special place in the Jamaat pantheon. Till a few years back, CDs of his anti-India discourses were publicly distributed along the Assam-Bangladesh border with the aim of inciting communal passion. Hasina has indeed shown mettle in hauling the entire top Jamaat leadership in prison and by putting them on trial.

The majority of Bangladeshis have supported the war crimes trial and there is a growing demand for banning the Jamaat, it is in the interest of Bangladesh and the growth of the region that both the trial and the ban attain their logical conclusion, only then will Bangladesh truly liberate itself.

As for the Hindus in Bangladesh, they ought to recall what Sayeedi once said in one of his vitriolic public discourses at the Chittagong Parade Ground, "Why should we feel sad when the Hindu brothers choose to leave our country? Do we mourn when we have indigestion and materials leave our bodies?" The Hindus thus should not mourn Sayeedi's conviction and his impending departure. Let them rejoice the final purgation from their body-politic of this highly inedible fundamentalist chunk.

Karma catches up with Jamaat | Niti Central

 

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Bangladesh crisis: Islamists vandalise 5 more Hindu idols in Natore

Islami Chhatra Shibir activists clashed with police and blasted five handmade bombs in Binodpur area of Rajshahi on Wednesday morning.

According to a Daily Star report, the clash continued for nearly 15 minutes but no one was injured.

Police fired at least 100 rubber bullets and teargas canisters to disperse the Shibir men.

Apart from these clashes, Islamists vandalised five more idols of Hindu Gods at a temple in Singra upazila of Natore.

The vandals broke into the temple at Dwipakuria village and wrecked the idols, reports say.
Amid clashes between Jamaat-Shibir activists and law enforcers, Bangladesh's main Opposition Bangladesh National Party on Wednesday has filed a case against 200 unnamed personal, including two top officials, on charges of ransacking and looting valuables from the party Nayapaltan central office during a raid on Monday, The Daily Star reported.

Mehedi Hassan, additional deputy commissioner (ADC) of Motijheel Zone, and Sarwar Zahan, officer-in-charge of Paltan Police Station are the two top officials named in the list.

The case was filed by Asadul Karim Shahin, assistant office secretary of BNP on Wednesday morning with the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court in Dhaka.
According to the case statement, the police raided the BNP office without any notice and broke open the doors of different rooms and looted valuables and official documents.

During the two and a half hour raid by the police on Monday more than 200 opposition leaders, including BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, was arrested.

During the raid, police and members of intelligence agencies recovered 12 homemade bombs from the BNP headquarters.

The raid was carried out following blasting of some homemade bombs during a rally of the BNP-led 18-party alliance in front of the office.

On the other hand, a total of 154 opposition leaders and activists including Opposition Chief Whip Zainul Abdin Farroque and BNP Joint Secretary General Rizvi Ahmed have been sent to jail over Monday's violence.

Of the cases, one case was filed under the Speedy Trial Tribunal Act for creating anarchy and another for attacking law enforcers during the rally.

 

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Bangladesh crisis: Jamaat unleashes violence in Noakhali
http://www.niticentral.com/2013/03/14/bangladesh-live-hartal-continues-as-jamaat-activists-unleash-violence-in-noakhali-55227.html

 

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Bangladesh LIVE! Islamists damage Saraswati idol in Madhabpur

Bangladesh LIVE! Islamists damage Saraswati idol in Madhabpur | Niti Central

Hindus staged demonstrations and formed a human chain in Munshiganj district against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's visit.
Hindus have been offering prayers at this temple for the past 77 years
The Shahbag Movement rally continued on Saturday at Dhaka University.

 

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Bangladesh crisis: Islamists vandalise Hindu idols in Gazipur | Niti Central

Idols of Hindu goddesses Kali, Swarasati, Laxmi and Nagini were vandalised by Islamists.

Islamists vandalised several idols at a temple in Gazipur on Monday night.

 

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Bangladesh LIVE! Defend democracy with full force, PM tells Army shoot at sight

Bangladesh authorities on Thursday issued "shoot at sight" orders for those indulging in arson and other sabotage as the main Opposition BNP and its allies enforced a 36-hour nationwide strike demanding resignation of the ruling Awami League Government.

According to reports, the decision was taken by Home Minister Mahiuddin Khan Alamgir in consultation with senior officers of police and other law enforcement agencies ahead of the shutdown.

"Nothing was ordered which is contrary to the existing law of the land," Alamgir said

"They (law enforcement agencies) were asked to do what is required. The law allows police to use gunshots, the law has not been violated by this order," he added.

The opposition strike saw one death when a passenger bus rammed into a tea stall while being pursued by violent opposition activists, killing a farmer while two other villagers were injured.

The shoot at sight orders came after suspected opposition activists torched at least nine vehicles and damaged several others on Wednesday when the country celebrated the Independence Day.

Schools and big shopping malls were closed and transport was thin on the street though opposition activists did not appear on Dhaka streets where the elite anti-crime Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) while paramilitary Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) were kept on alert.

Television channels reported over a dozen crude bomb blasts in parts of the capital where the suspected activists also set afire a three-wheeler on Thursday apparently adopting hit and run tactics when police fired tear gas shells and rubber bullets.

"We are announcing a 36-hour hartal to wage an all-out movement against the Government to realise our demands, which include the Government's resignation, restoration of the caretaker Government system (for election oversight) and release of our party men," BNP's acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said in Press Conference.

BNP was yet to issue a statement on the Government's "shoot at sight" decision but chairman of the statutory National Human Rights Commission Professor Mizanur Rahman criticised the order saying other options were there to prevent the saboteurs.

"If it is the decision (shoot at sight) I don't agree with that," he said.

BNP was waging a campaign over electoral system demanding restoration of a caretaker Government system for election oversight as the national election was due in 2014 but ongoing trials of several leaders of its crucial extreme rightwing ally Jamaat, for 1971 war crimes shifted their focus.

After initial hesitation, BNP eventually threw its weight with its ally, calling the trial a witch-hunt.

The violence over the war crimes trial has claimed over 70 lives. Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industries (FBCCI) and several other chamber bodies earlier expressed concerns about the negative impact of strikes on economy and urged the ruling and opposition parties to resolve disputes through talks.

But finance minister AMA Muhith accused the opposition of hurting the economy in a planned manner calling it "anti-state and anti-Bangladesh" saying "they are enforcing hartals thinking if the economy collapses, the government will be toppled".

Major newspapers carried reports on the impact of hartals on poor people like street vendors while the Prothom Alo newspaper said the transport sector was one of the worst victims of the political unrest in the recent months.

The report said at least 400 vehicles including buses and trucks were torched and 3,000 others were damaged since November and several trains were set afire and railway tracks damaged during the period, causing a loss of 9 crore takas.

 

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Bangladesh LIVE! Pakistani men, Jamaat leader arrested for carrying bombs | Niti Central

Bangladesh LIVE! Pakistani men, Jamaat leader arrested for carrying bomb

Bangladesh Police's detective branch arrested four Pakistani nationals and a Jamaat leader along with 12 others during raids in Dhaka.

According to a Priyo News report, eight bombs and fake Indian currency worth 12.5 million were seized from those arrested.
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Reports also claim that they were planning subversive activities in the city.

Apart from eight bombs and theIndian currencies, several passports were recovered from the arrestees' possession, a Daily Star Report claimed.

A Bangladeshi eye specialist was among the arrestees, policeofficials said.

Additional Deputy Commissioner of police said thatthe detainees might be the members of an outfit trying to carry out subversive activities in Dhaka or elsewhere in the country.

Meanwhile, a group of United Nations independent human rights experts on Friday called for an immediate stop to violence in Bangladesh and a return to peaceful demonstrations.

 

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AL don't support any type of rajakar.and also any type of terrorist activities.they are not bangladeshi.they are pakistani rajakar .son of pakistani bitch.