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‘People’s court’ to try Golam Azam Mar 26

By Staff Correspondent
A 101-member committee comprising noted citizens announced Sunday that the trial of "war criminal'' leader Golam Azam would be held In a people's court at Suhrawardy Udd-yan In the city on Independence Day ( March 26 ) if the government did not expel him immediately.
The same ' court' would also try all the war criminals in phases, a declaration of the committee said.
Signed by eminent lawyers, writers, university teachers, freedom fighters. Journalists. Artists and other intellectuals, the declaration also demanded a ban on politics of religion-based political parties including the Jamaat-e-Islami.
The country's development and progress will not be possible unless the enemies of Independence are rooted out from the soil' . the declaration viewed.
The nation will not attain dignity with the enemies remaining active in the country, it added.
The committee termed the initiative to try the ' war criminals’ as the second phase of the country's Liberation War. It urged all the freedom fighters and those believing In the spirit of the war to join the movement aimted at uprooting the anti liberation forces.
The gang of 71 enemies couM only be resisted thorough a united movement on the streets", the declaration said
The declaration narrated heinous acts including geno cide. rape, killing of Intellectuals in the name of Islam by the Jamaat-e Islaml under the leadership of Golam Azam and other religion-based parties during the war and also their rising up In the last 20 years
It blamed all the post tnde pendence governments of showing a more or less liberal attitude towards the killers and collaborators of 1971
The detained killers and collaborators wer* freed through an amnesty in 1973 Jamaat's politics was legalised in 1976. Golam Azam was not expelled even after the expiry of his visa tn 1979. no -action was taken against the Jamaal workers for commenting political murders in the following years thus bringing the Jamaal to Its present position, the statement explained
The lime has arrived lo eliminate the enemies of liber atlon to save the nation'. the declaration said.
Signatories to the declaration Included ; Begum Sufla Kamal. Lt .Col ( Retd) Nuruzzaman. Barrister Syed Ishtiaq Ahmed. Maj Gen ( Retd) . C.R Dutta. Air Vice Marshal ( Retd) Sadruddin. Jahanara Imam . Sardar Fazlul
Karim. Shamsur Rahman . Quayyum Choudhury. Maulana Abdul Awal. Dr Slrajul Islam Choudhury. Hashem Khan. Dr Borhanuddln Khan Jahangir. Dr. Ahmed Sharif Dr Anlsuzza man. Panna Kaiser Ma mat az uddln Ahmed. Mamunur Rahld. Syed Hassan Imam. Laila Hassan. Dr Purabl Dutta. Raflqun Nabi. Dr Humayun Ahmed. Akhteruzzaman Illas. Aziz Meher. Blnod Das Gupta . Dr Jahirul Haq. Hayat Mah mud. Shafi Ahmed. Mansur Musa. Dr Meghna Guha fhakurala. Col ( Retd ) Nurul Huda. Maj. ( Retd ) Bazle Rashid, Fh^it It. ( Retd ) Iqbal Rashid. Maj (Retd) Syed Mlzanur Rahman. Maj ( Retd ) Syed Mujlbur Rahman. Col (Retd) Nazrul Islam Bhuiyan. Jartna Rahman Khan, Fateh All Choudhury. Naslruddln Yousuf, shahrler Kabir. Hablbul Alam. Begum Mushtari Shafi. Anu Mohammad. Noim Jahangir. Moinui Ahsan Saber Imdadul Haq Milon. Maj. (Retd) Muha mmad AUqur Rahman. Harun Habib. Mafldul Haq Ahmed Musa . All Zaker. Aaaduzzaman Noor and Maskhuk Helal