The activists of Shahbagh Ganajagarn Mancha yesterday called for a ban on the Jamaat-e-Islami politics and urged the government to execute the verdict against all convicted war criminals in the quickest possible time.
Ganajagarn Mancha – a platform for people’s awareness – made the demand while addressing a rally at Shahbagh Projonmo Chattar yesterday afternoon.
Imran H Sarkar, convener of the organisation, said: “We have gained our primary victory through the execution of Quader Molla’s verdict.”
“The whole nation is elated after 42 years, and we will celebrate a complete victory when all war criminals would be hanged like Molla and anti-liberation forces (Jamat-Hafazat) banned in our country.”
Imran said the evil forces killed innocent people with a view to foiling the war crimes trials and making Bangladesh a land of racism.
The spokesperson of Ganajagaran Mancha called upon the government to put an end to Jamaat-Shibir politics, saying that the Supreme Court had banned the party and so it had no right to do politics in the country.
Imran vowed that they would continue their movement till realisation of their six-point demand.
Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee President Shahriar Kabir termed Jamaat and Hefazat main enemy for Bangladesh and hindrance to its progresses.
He said the evil forces did not want the independence of Bangladesh in 1971 and also did not believe in people’s victory over Liberation War against Pakistan.
Shahriar came down hard on the western countries including US and England that opposed the execution of Quader Molla’s verdict.
“They opposed us when we declared our independence war against Pakistan in 1971, but we hardly took notice of their opposition, and this time also we did like 1971,” he said.
Shahriar urged the countrymen to elect those parties – that live up to the inspiration of Liberation War – in the next polls and to rein in violence committed by Jamaat and Hefazat with a heavy hand.
Development activist and woman leader Khushi Kabir described the execution of Quader Molla’s verdict as a second victory for the Bangladeshis after 1791.
“It is the second victory for our country after 1971 and a complete victory will come only after all war criminals are hanged,” She added.
She also declared that they would continue their movement till Bangladesh became totally free from Rajakars and Jamaat-Shibir.
Freedom fighter Nasiruddin Yousuf Bachchu said the anti-liberation forces killed many people during the Liberation War, and in 2013, they were doing the same in an attempt to save the war criminals.
Among others, Ziaul Haque, president of Bangladesh Shommilito Islami Jote, Bangladesh Chhatra Maitri President Bappa Ditta Bashu, Chhatra Union President SM Shuvo and its general secretary Hasan Tarek, Jasad Chhatra League President Shamsul Islam Sumon spoke at the rally.