Jamaat-e-Islami leader and war crimes convict Delwar Hossain Sayedee’s son Shamim Sayedee has threatened that the government’s decision to hang his father will ‘leave the country burning’.
He issued the threat on Sunday at the rally the 18-Party alliance organised at Khulna Circuit House ground, where BNP chief Khaleda Zia was the chief guest.
“The government has confined my beloeved father to the darkness of prison cell for three years through conspiracy and out of vengeance. He has been falsely handed down the century’s cruellest death penalty,” claimed Shamim.
“The people of the country replied on Feb 28 to the false sentence my father was handed down. They have not accepted this sentence. If the government goes for the execution of this verdict, it will set the entire country on fire.”
Several thousand activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student front Islami Chhatra Shibir shouted ‘Naraye Takbir, Allahu Akbar’, the party’s trademark slogan, while Shamim spoke.
The activists of the Jamaat and Shibir thronged the venue of the rally by their thousands in one of its biggest showdowns in recent times.
The two International Crimes Tribunals in several judgements held Jamaat responsible for perpetrating war crimes to prevent independence, giving birth to calls that the party should be banned much the same way the Nazi party was for its Second World War crimes.
Banners and placards with the demand to free war crimes convicts like Sayedee, Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid, and Abdul Quader Molla and also those standing trial for alleged war crimes were seen large numbers during the Khulna rally.
Source: Bd news24
