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Jamaat behind all these crimes Observes tribunal

Ashutosh Sarkar
The International Crimes Tribunal-2 yesterday said Jamaat-e-Islami played a pertinent and culpable role in killing notable proliberation intellectuals, the best sons and daughters of the soil.
Sentencing Al-Badr leaders Chowdhury Mueen Uddin and Ashrafuzzaman Khan to death for abducting and killing 18 intellectuals and professionals towards the end of the Liberation War, the court said Jamaat approved the killing squad formed by Al-Badr men, who in fact belonged to then Jamaat student wing Islami Chhatra Sangha.
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The tribunal said Jamaat-e-Islami was actively connected to the policy of annihilating selected intellectuals and professionals, who had stood firmly for the liberation and self-determination.
The court said it was Jamaat-e-Islami and its creations, fanatic groups like Al-Badr, Razakar, Al-Shams, and the Peace Committee, who took a stance to "save Pakistan and Islam" even if it required the annihilation of pro-liberation Bangalee nation.
It said Jamaat indulged in indiscriminate massacre of their political opponents belonging to the Bangalee nation in the name of eliminat-
ing “miscreants" and "infiltrators”.
This resulted in the killing of more than 200 brightest minds of the country in December 1971 and Al-Badr was used to execute the plan, the court said.
History accuses Al-Badr of working like "death squads", killing, looting and disgracing Bangalees whom they accused of being "anti-Islam", the tribunal yesterday observed.
"Thus the brutality of their [Al-Badr's] contribution, as found, to the perpetration of systematic atrocities indeed was no lesser than that of the Pakistan occupation army," it said.
This evil stance was to provide all sorts of
support and encouragement to their followers and the Pakistan occupation army as well, the court said, adding that the notorious fascist force's intention was to wipe out the Bangalee intellectuals for "preserving Pakistan".
Convict Mueen was the publicity secretary of Chhatra Sangha in 1970. He was involved in the student body since his school days.
War Criminal Ashruf had run for the office of general secretary of Dhaka University Central Students Union with a Chhatra Sangha ticket, as reported by Jamaat mouthpiece daily Sangram onMay 14,1970.