AL blames govt for patronising anti-liberation forces
Wednesday, 16 July 2008
Bangladesh Awami League (AL) central leaders Tuesday accused a section of the caretaker government of patronising the 'BNP-Jamaat-led' anti-liberation forces, reports UNB.
The AL leaders said on one hand the government is putting many pro-liberation war heroes behind the bars and allowing Jamaat "miscreants" to go untouched, on the other, even though they humiliated a freedom fighter for demanding trial of the war criminals.
They also demanded exemplary punishment of the attackers of the freedom fighter at a conference of Jamaat-sponsored Jatiya Muktijuddha Parishad.
"The government didn't want to allow the Sectors Commanders' Forum to arrange the freedom fighters' conference. But Islamic bigots created a horrible situation in front of the national mosque at the time. So, it can be said the state of emergency has been imposed only to suppress the patriots," AL presidium member Tofail Ahmed said.
He was addressing a protest meeting at the AL central office at Bangabandhu Avenue in the afternoon with its presidium member Amir Hossain Amu in the chair.
AL arranged the rally in protest against the attack on freedom fighter Sheikh Mohammad Ali Aman by Jamaat "miscreants" when he demanded trial of war criminals at a 'freedom fighters' conference arranged by Jatiya Muktijuddha Parishad on July 11 at Diploma Engineers' Institute.
Investigative reports have already proved that the newly floated platform is a brainchild of Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh.
Tofail referred to the incidents of camp looting by the students of a madrasah at Hathazari in Chittagong and ransacking by "Islamic bigots" in capital Dhaka.
"Progressive persons are being arrested showing lame excuses. But the government didn't arrest a single person even after the madrasah students looted a police camp. How can this government prove it as a nonparty caretaker government with such biasness?" he said.
Tofail said there are a lot of officers still in the Army, BDR and police recruited during the last BNP-Jamaat regimes as their cadres.
Matia Chowdhury alleged that part of the administration is trying to save the Jamaat people keeping the state of emergency in force.
Amir Hossain Amu described the attack on the freedom fighter as a fresh conspiracy by the Jamaat-backed anti-liberation forces to create an anarchic situation in the country that will make the long-awaited parliamentary polls uncertain.
Amu said if the government does not bring the Jamaat cadres to justice for their attack on a freedom fighter, then the country's people would take the law in hand and give the culprits the punishment they deserve.
The AL leaders said on one hand the government is putting many pro-liberation war heroes behind the bars and allowing Jamaat "miscreants" to go untouched, on the other, even though they humiliated a freedom fighter for demanding trial of the war criminals.
They also demanded exemplary punishment of the attackers of the freedom fighter at a conference of Jamaat-sponsored Jatiya Muktijuddha Parishad.
"The government didn't want to allow the Sectors Commanders' Forum to arrange the freedom fighters' conference. But Islamic bigots created a horrible situation in front of the national mosque at the time. So, it can be said the state of emergency has been imposed only to suppress the patriots," AL presidium member Tofail Ahmed said.
He was addressing a protest meeting at the AL central office at Bangabandhu Avenue in the afternoon with its presidium member Amir Hossain Amu in the chair.
AL arranged the rally in protest against the attack on freedom fighter Sheikh Mohammad Ali Aman by Jamaat "miscreants" when he demanded trial of war criminals at a 'freedom fighters' conference arranged by Jatiya Muktijuddha Parishad on July 11 at Diploma Engineers' Institute.
Investigative reports have already proved that the newly floated platform is a brainchild of Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh.
Tofail referred to the incidents of camp looting by the students of a madrasah at Hathazari in Chittagong and ransacking by "Islamic bigots" in capital Dhaka.
"Progressive persons are being arrested showing lame excuses. But the government didn't arrest a single person even after the madrasah students looted a police camp. How can this government prove it as a nonparty caretaker government with such biasness?" he said.
Tofail said there are a lot of officers still in the Army, BDR and police recruited during the last BNP-Jamaat regimes as their cadres.
Matia Chowdhury alleged that part of the administration is trying to save the Jamaat people keeping the state of emergency in force.
Amir Hossain Amu described the attack on the freedom fighter as a fresh conspiracy by the Jamaat-backed anti-liberation forces to create an anarchic situation in the country that will make the long-awaited parliamentary polls uncertain.
Amu said if the government does not bring the Jamaat cadres to justice for their attack on a freedom fighter, then the country's people would take the law in hand and give the culprits the punishment they deserve.