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Ghulam Azam in the Dock

Hopes after a long wait
Prof Muntasir Mamoon
Noted writer and historian Prof Muntasir Mamoon said, "It's a special day for us who have long been continuing movement pressing this. This is the day for which we have been waiting for. "What the tribunal told today [yesterday], we have been voicing this for long, but no rulers paid any heed to us," Muntasir, also a teacher of Dhaka University, said.
He said it would be an obstacle for establishing good governance in a country if the guilty were not tried, if the guilty got a place in the government.
This is a message form the tribunal that ultimately the accused have to face the trial, he observed.
Shahriar Kabir
Executive President of Ekatturer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee Shahriar Kabir expressed his satisfaction over the order indicting former Jamaat-e-Islami ameer Ghulam Azam.
"I feel good that the first step of our movement launched 20 years ago under the leadership of Shaheed Janani Jahanara Imam has been completed," Shahriar told The Daily Star in his immediate reaction.
The eminent journalist said the party Ghulam Azam belonged, its philosophy and the accomplices would also have to be brought to justice.
"We have to remember that we are not holding trial of the person Ghulam Azam, we are trying the chief of the party which not only had created the scope for genocide but also justified and legalised it," he said.
There is no scarcity of evidence and documents against Azam, he said, adding, "Now we are looking at the prosecution and hope that they will conduct the case efficiently."
Prof Anwar Hossain
"We are moving towards our longstanding expectations to see trial of Ghulam Azam," said Prof Anwar Hossain, president of Dhaka University Teachers' Association.
"Since the tribunal has crossed the hurdle and begun the trial, we hoped that it will reach this end. We are hopeful that his [Ghulam Azam] trial will be completed and the verdict of the trial will be effective," Prof Anwar, also a freedom fighter, said.
Sultana Kamal
Former adviser to a caretaker government Sultana Kamal said it was indeed very good to see that the trial began after a long wait of 41 years.
"We hope that the tribunal, which has begun the trial after a huge scrutinising, would ensure full transparency during the proceedings," she said.
A noted human rights activist and Chairperson of Transparency International Bangladesh Board of Trustees, Sultana expressed the hope that a fair and transparent trial would be held and rights of the accused would be ensured.
"We want to see punishment of the war criminals; otherwise we will not be relieved from the huge burden," she added.
Dr MA Hasan
Convener of War Crimes Facts Finding Committee (WCFFC) Dr MA Hasan said, "It's a milestone in the history of Bangladesh.
"Ghulam Azam had incited genocide and is one of the worst accused of the crimes against humanity," he said, adding that the beginning of his trial was a big step towards breaking the culture ofimpunity.
"We want to see the end of the trial and want to see the perpetrators other than Ghulam Azam get due punishment. We want to see that justice is delivered,” he added.
Shyamoli Nasreen Chy
"It is the longstanding desire of the families of the martyrs to see trial of the killers," said Shyamoli Nasreen Chawdhury, widow of martyred Dr Alim Chawdhury, an eminent physician, who was killed at the end of the Liberation War in 1971.
Terming Ghulam Azam the mastermind of the killers during the Liberation War, she said, "This is the day, for which the families of the martyrs have been waiting since 1972.”
"Now we will be able to feel the real taste of independence," said Shyamoli, adding, "We may not get back our near and dear ones, but trial of the killers is our due demand.
"We will get peace when the trial will be completed," she added.