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I'm innocent

Mojaheed claims in written statement at tribunal

Staff Correspondent
Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General All Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed yesterday claimed before the International Crimes Tribunal-2 that he had dedicated himself to serving Bangladesh since December 16,1971.
After the framing of seven charges of crimes against humanity against him at the court yesterday, Mojaheed pleaded "100 percent innocent" and delivered a statement with the tribunal's permission.
In the statement
Mojaheed said, "Although I could not take part in the Liberation War, I dedicated myself for the service of liberated Bangladesh since Victory Day, December 16, 1971.
"I was a student in 1971. As a student and as part of a student organisation, it was not possible to make individualdecisions.”
He, however, did not mention anything about the student organisation, not even the name of it and his role in it.
In 1971, Mojaheed was secretary of the Jamaat's then student wing Islami Chhatra Sangha. In October 1971, he became president of Islami Chhatra Sangha, which is historically infamous for its role against Bangladesh's Liberation War.
The records say that the collaborator force Al-Badr was formed with Islami Chhatra Sangha men. Al-Badr helped the Pakistani occupation forces conduct massacres. It especially orchestrated the killing of intellectuals on the eve of Victory Day.
In 1971, Mojaheed
directed his party workers to form Al-Badr to resist the freedom fighters, according to a "Fortnightly Secret Report on the Situation in East Pakistan". In line with an official procedure, the report had regularly been dispatched by the then East Pakistan home ministry to General Yahya Khan, the head of the Pakistan military junta.
"I was never in hiding. I moved openly after the liberation of Bangladesh," said Mojaheed.
"There is no case or general diary lagainst me) at the places mentioned in the charge sheet," Mojaheed said, adding, "My name is not in any list of guilty or accused.
"This is not normal if one has committed crimes," he reasoned.
He said the "Awami League did not give birth to the war crimes issue" and those who were against Islamic politics and did not tolerate the word Bismillah in the constitution were behind the war crimes issue.
He said the Jamaat-e-Islami was a powerful democratic political party and its strength and popularity
were increasing day by day. “I am a leader of it, now its secretary general."
He claimed that he was standing in the dock because his party had allied with the political opposition to the Awami League.
Shaheen Reza Noor, son of martyr journalist Serajuddin Hossain, told The Daily Star that it was well known to all that Mojaheed and Jamaat chief Nizami were involved in the Islami Chhatra Sangha as well as the Al-Badr force.
One of the charges against Mojaheed relates to his alleged involvement in the abduction and killing of Serajuddin Hossain.
Every one knows that the Al-Badr was involved in the killing of intellectuals, he said.
About Mojaheed pleading not guilty, Shaheen, who is a journalist, said, “It is falsehood. We all have seen what they [collaborators] did, what speeches they delivered during the war.”
“They [Islami Chhatra Sangha and Al-Badr] did everything, including murder, rape and torture, to protect Pakistan [during the Liberation War],” he added.