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Opinion

Misleading brotherhood

Md. Au Akbar
REPORTEDLY, one "brother" state has launched a diplomatic offensive to scotch our planned trial of the '71 war criminals. Shame on it! Isn't that meddling in our sovereign right to act?
While battling the Islamist radicals in their home ground, how could they move brazenly to rescue some hated elements, of about the same ilk, who had committed heinous crimes against humanity in 1971 in Bangladesh?
Understandably, they are out to protect their quislings of 1971, but without a moral ground. Will they forgive the Taliban's reported cruelties against their countrymen? They talk of Islamic brotherhood. Is their brotherhood feeling only for those who helped them in carrying out the barbaric genocide? Then, what is left for the remainder 99% other "brothers?"
Let's look back. When the talk of war criminals' trial came up, this "brother" state missed no time in sending an envoy who straightaway advised us to forget the old issue for good. We chose to let it go
without a fuss for the sake of decency to the visiting guest. We thought they would not move any further. That was not to be.
Some days later, we got a hint that the "brother" state wanted further discussions. We saw nothing wrong with that. But, we could not imagine that one fine morning we would wake up to hear, to our disbelief, that they have approached the UN and the US formally to pre-empt our planned war criminals' trial.
Back in 1971, it was in the garb of this brotherhood (?) that they swooped on the unarmed Bengalis in the dark of night and carried out history's worst carnage in the then East Pakistan, now Bangladesh.Their marauding soldiers, with the help of their Bengali lackeys, whom we call traitors, had killed our loved ones and looted and ravaged our motherland
What good will their present move do? Why so much "brotherly" love for their accomplices of '71, even 38 years after our independence? Is it aimed to maintain the dubious nexus many think they have with their '71 collaborators in Bangladesh?
If that is the case, there must be a deeper, sinister motive behind it. It is strongly likely that the "brother" country had so long been nurturing those elements as proxy to execute some design, which might be to undermine our security and safety.
Riding on these local cohorts, they seem to play dirty politics by providing all manner of support to Indian insurgents, thus pushing us into India's bad book. Our premonition is that they seek to retaliate against India for the latter's historic support to us.
They want to antagonise India against Bangladesh so that relations between the two become strained and, gradually, Bangladesh gets realigned with the "brother" state. And enough has been done to that end since the '75 bloody change-over.
The brother state's ultimate political goal is supposedly to avenge its debacle in 1971, and to install a subservient regime in Bangladesh that would dance to its tune. Now that the unfolding mysteries of the ongoing enquiry into the 10-truck arms haul point accusatory fingers to an ISI link, it lends credence to our apprehension.
There is also a creeping suspicion about their embassy’s part in the scandal. At whose green signal could they dare to make our land a conduit for smuggling arms to an Indian state? Was the plot to be executed with the clandestine help of some alleged war criminals then at the helm?
Notably, the "brother" state has followed double standard as regards their much-vaunted Muslim brotherhood, sidetracking the repatriation of the stranded non-Bengalis. Will these rootless Muslim brothers' appeal continue to fall on deaf ears?
Mind you. They conveniently cast aside the "brotherhood" masquerade, and perpetrated the heinous atrocities on us. the Bengalis, in 1971. We stood up on the ruins and started from scratch, but the brother state extended no help. They flatly denied our legitimate right to the state assets they laid their hands on, for which we also had paid during our common statehood.
It was believably due to their defamatory’ preaching that Saudi Arabia and allied Muslim states balked at recognising us as a brotherly Muslim state. It took us a long time to break the "lesser Muslim" image the unkind "brother" country had given us.
Our erudite columnists' recent exhortations to the "brother" state to apologise for the '71 barbarities created little response. Now, notice they have greeted the plea with an unwelcome bid for external pressures to be brought to bear on us for abandoning the '71 war criminals' trial. Beware of the misleading "brotherhood"!
Md At Akbar a a Deputy Secretary to the government