New war crimes law in Bangladesh targets Islam?

New war crimes law in Bangladesh targets Islam?

- By DR. ABDUL RUFF

The amendment will also give powers to the special tribunal to prosecute any organisations or political parties allegedly involved in war crimes. If found guilty, the party "can be banned" from politics. The government and others can now appeal against verdicts at the International Crimes Tribunal, set up in 2010 to try those Bangladeshis accused of collaborating with Pakistani forces and committing atrocities during the war- obviously if the judgments go in favour of Islam.

Human rights groups have said the tribunal falls short of international standards. The Islamist party says the latest change to the law is nothing but an attempt by the government to destroy the party. Eight of the accused are Jamaat party leaders, while the remaining two are members of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), one a former minister. Jamaat and the BNP accuse the current government of pursuing a political vendetta through the tribunal. Critics say the provision is aimed at the Jamaat, which wanted a united Pakistan and opposed Bangladesh's independence from Pakistan as required by neighbour India which found two Pakistans harming their interests.  Official estimates say more than three million people were killed in the 1971 war which resulted in independence from Pakistan.

Soon after the Independence of India and Pakistan, East Pakistan formed the eastern part of new Pakistan state. Civil war erupted in Pakistan, pitting the West Pakistan army against East Pakistanis demanding independence. Fighting forces an estimated 10 million East Pakistani civilians to flee to India. In December, India invades East Pakistan in support of the East Pakistani people. Pakistani army surrendered at Dhaka and its army of more than 90,000 become Indian prisoners of war. East Pakistan became the independent country of Bangladesh on 16 December 1971.  In the aftermath of war and independence, the new state endured poverty, famine, political turmoil and military coups. The restoration of democracy in 1991 has been followed by relative calm and economic progress.

The present-day borders of Bangladesh were established during the British partitionof Bengal in 1947, when the region becameEast Pakistan, part of the newly formed nation ofPakistan. However, it was separated fromWest Pakistanby nearly 1,500 km (about 900 mi) ofIndianterritory. Due to political exclusion, ethnic and linguistic discrimination and economic neglect by the politically dominant western wing, popular agitation grew and gave rise to a secular cultural nationalist movement, which India promoted for its own sake. a massivecyclonedevastated the coast of East Pakistan in 1970, killing up to half a million people, strengthened the  force of agitation for freedom. The Indian Army remained in Bangladesh until 19 March 1972. After its independence, Bangladesh was governed by an Awami League government, with Mujib as the Prime Minister, without holding any elections.  On 15 August 1975, Mujib and most of his family members were assassinated.  Lieutenant General Ziaur Rahman, took over the presidency in 1977 as Justice Sayem resigned. President Zia reinstated multi-party politics, introduced free markets, and founded theBangladesh Nationalist Party(BNP). Zia's rule ended when he was assassinated. Zia's widow,Khaleda Zia, led the Bangladesh Nationalist Party to parliamentary victory at the general election in 1991, and became the first female Prime Minister in Bangladeshi history. However, the Awami League, headed bySheikh Hasina, one of Mujib's surviving daughters, won the next election in 1996. It lost again to the Bangladesh Nationalist Party in 2001. Bangladesh claims to have reverted to a parliamentary democracy.

However, Bangladesh has become a land of corrupt people. The country had suffered from extensive corruption,disorder and political violence. The caretaker government made it a priority to root out corruption from all levels of government. The Awami League's Sheikh Hasina won with a landslide in the elections and took the oath of Prime Minister on 6 January 2009.

The name Bangladesh means Country of Bengal/ Bengalis. As against Islamic Pakistan, Bangladesh does not want anything like Islam being attached to the Bengal nation that has promoted deformed leftism.

Madam Sheikh Hasina who spent time in prison for serious proven corruption charges had “inherited” power from her late Husband Mujibur Rahman. Now she is busy weakening Islamic infrastructure and strengthening anti-Islam networks with assistance from western donor states and enemies of Islam. Hasina is attempting to show that she is more democrat that WTO tower fame Bush Jr and the Babri Mosque fame LK Advani.

Madam Sheikh Hasina’s Bangladesh like India promotes anti-Islamic forces in the country and region.  But have all Bangladeshis gone ashtray in opposing Islam (which is more important than their language and life) and pampering anti-Islamic infrastructures in this Muslim nation? Can the enemies of Islam be close friends and model guides for Bangladesh?

Islamic world has to worry about the anti-Islamic tendencies creeping in Bangladesh.

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[Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal, Educationist, Chancellor-Founder of Centor for International Affairs(CIA); Specialist on State Terrorism ; Global columnist, Commentator  on world affairs , Expert on Mideast Affairs, Analyst on  sport fixings , Chronicler of Foreign occupations & Freedom movements (Palestine, Kashmir, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Xinjiang, Chechnya, etc.) Former university Teacher; website: http://abdulruff.wordpress.com/write to me: abdulruff_jnu@yahoo.com]

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د. عبد راف 

Dear Islam lovers and friends: Please publish this. Global media today, even in Muslim nations, are controlled by CIA  & other anti-Islamic agencies.Terrorism is caused by anti-Islamic forces.Regimes often resort to  state terrorism. Anti-Muslimism and anti-Islamism are more dangerous than "terrorism" Fake democracies have zero-tolerance to any criticism of their anti-Muslim and other aggressive practices. Anti-Islamic forces & terrorists are using all sorts of criminal elements for terrorizing the world and they in disguise are harming genuine interests of ordinary Muslims. Humanity has a right to know the truth.  Muslim blood is cheap...

Islamic world is under perpetual threat from enemy world and global anti-humanity media (GAM). Encouraged by anti-Islam onslaught by all global fascist forces in the era of post-11 Sept-11 hoax, Islam has become an embarrassment for many ruling Muslim classes across the globe.  In attacking Islam and Muslims, the Muslim rulers, like anti-Islam forces, try to curry favours from NATO terror syndicate, led by USA-UK terror twins,  now occupying many Muslim nations and killing  millions of Muslims.

Bangladesh is now on a revenge mood, attempting to switch back horrors of history. With a view to reducing importance of Islamic parties like Jamaati-e-Islami, Bangladesh regime led by “progressive” and essentially anti-Islam premier Sheikh Hasina, targeting the anti-Islam vote bank, has amended war crimes law amid popular protest.  Amendment allows retrial of cases from 1971 war after rallies calling for death penalty for Jamaat-e-Islami leaders.   Bangladesh has amended war crimes law amid protest.  Amendment allows retrial of cases from 1971 war after rallies calling for death penalty for Jamaat-e-Islami leaders. Tens of thousands of demonstrators in the capital, Dhaka, cheered the news. The legal amendment also paves the way for the prosecution and potential ban of the Jamaat-e-Islami party.  The war crimes law announcement comes a day after three people were killed in clashes between police and Jamaat supporters. The Jamaat has called for a country-wide general strike on Monday in protest at the deaths.   The new law which will allow the state to appeal against the life sentence of Islamist Jamaat chief Abdul Kader Mullah, has been amended by Bangladesh's parliament after protesters called for his execution. Jamaat chief Mullah was given life for his alleged role in crimes in the 1971 independence war. The ruling sparked nearly two weeks of angry mass protests in Dhaka and other cities. Demonstrators - mainly young men and women - demanded the death penalty for Mullah and 10 others accused of committing crimes against humanity during the country's war of independence war with Pakistan in 1971.