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| Jamaat, Shibir want to foil execution |
| 2010-01-22 |
| [Bangla Daily Star] Home Minister Sahara Khatun yesterday in parliament said Jamaat-e-Islami and Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS) had stocked arms in Chittagong to carry out subversive activities to hinder the execution of Bangabandhu murder case verdict and trial of war criminals. "Militancy and subversive and criminal activities will not be tolerated in the country. We will handle those with an iron hand," the home minister said in a statement on the arms recovery from a den of Jamaat backed student organisation ICS. Police arrested 12 ICS men and recovered arms and some bomb making materials from their mess at Mistiripara in the port city on Monday. Four revolvers (three made in Pakistan), three light guns (LGs), 26 bullets, 11 cartridges, bomb making materials, half a kilogram of gunpowder and some jihadi books were recovered from there. The home minister made the statement in response to Awami League lawmakers Suranjit Sengupta and Fazle Rabbi Mia, who on Wednesday on point of order raised the issue and demanded a statement in parliament. The home minister said everybody knows the political philosophy of killing people and destructive activities of Jamaat and BNP. She said anti-liberation force Jamaat-e-Islami and their then student wing Islami Chhattra Sangho formed Razakars and Al-Badr forces and killed lakhs of freedom fighters and intellectuals during the liberation war in 1971. "With muscle and arms power Islami Chhattra Shibir had kept captured different educational institutions in Chittagong for last 23 years. Now they were preparing for carrying out destructive activities across the country and pilled up arms and ammunition," Sahara added. |
| Posted by:Fred |