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| Bangladesh |
| 1971 remnants still active in politics |
| 2008-12-17 |
| A band of key players, who made a botched attempt to abort the birth of Bangladesh, is none other than the top brass of Jamaat-e-Islami, young in 1971. They had joined forces with the Pakistani occupation army to commit what shaped up into a full-blown genocide in the nine-month bloody war. For Motiur Rahman Nizami, now chief of Jamaat and the then president of Islami Chhatra Shangha, it was a parallel struggle to protect every inch of Pakistan during the Liberation War. The head of the Islamic party said the activists of the student front had been pledge-bound to attack the mainland Hindustan [India] to protect a united Pakistan. Nizami's speech is evident in the September 8, 1971 issue of the Daily Sangram that carried a report headlined "Chhatra Shangha activists will protect every inch of Pakistan's land". Nizami worked his way deeper into mainstream politics with the backing of the BNP-led four-party alliance. He is now an alliance candidate from Pabna-1 constituency for the year-end national elections. Nizami is not alone. |
| Posted by:Fred |