Jamaat terms it a conspiracy to kill its leaders
The Awami League and different other organisations expressed their satisfaction over the yesterday’s verdict handed down to Jamaat Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed by the International Crimes Tribunal-2.
The BNP, however, kept mum about the verdict. It also remained tight-lipped during the previous verdicts delivered to the war crimes accused.
Jamaat-e-Islami, as usual, rejected the verdict terming it a government conspiracy to kill their leaders, and to eliminate the party.
The party yesterday announced another daylong hartal across the country for today. This will be the fourth consecutive daylong hartal called by the party since July 15.
In their reactions, leaders of the AL, Workers Party of Bangladesh, Law Minister Shafique Ahmed and Foreign Minister Dipu Moni said the verdict against Mojaheed had fulfilled the expectation of the nation.
Through the verdict it had been proved that Jamaat was a terrorist party, they said, demanding that the government ban Jamaat as a political party.
“The tribunals have delivered the verdicts after examining the relevant documents and evidence in a transparent manner, and there is no scope for raising any question over the transparency and acceptability of the trials,” Law Minister Shafique Ahmed told reporters at his office in the Secretariat.
Speaking at an extended meeting of Dhaka city unit of the party, AL Joint General Secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif said the verdict had proved that Jamaat was a terrorist outfit, which was involved in anti-Islamic activities using Islam.
Sector Commanders Forum, Amra Muktijoddhar Sontan, Sommilito Muktijoddha Front, Jatiya Ganotantrik League, Bangladesh Nari Mukti Andolon, among others, also hailed the verdict.
But BNP’s Joint Secretary General Rizvi Ahmed refused to talk on the issue at a press conference at the party’s Naya Paltan central office yesterday.
Senior leaders of the party would give their reaction in this regard later, he said.
Source: The Daily Star
There are two ways to redress hurt – one through reconciliation and the other through revenge. One is permanent, the other is ephemeral. Current government has opted for the latter. What it has done is legally and to some extent morally right but perhaps strategically wrong – nation’s division has been deepened further, not bridged!