Sajeeb Wazed Joy, son of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, said the justice has been served for Ghulam Azam's war crimes as he did not die as a free man.
The IT adviser of the PM said: “What makes this past two weeks even more special is that the most infamous war criminal Ghulam Azam died in prison. It was more than he deserved.”
The grandson of the architect of Bangladesh's independence, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, made the remarks on the infamous war criminal on Tuesday, five days after the death of ex-chief of the Jamaat-e-Islami.
Joy wrote on his Facebook post: “BNP founder Ziaur Rahman allowed the infamous war criminal to return to and lead politics in the country where he slaughtered innocent civilians on behalf of Pakistan. Bangabandhu’s daughter and party brought him to justice after 40 long years.”
Convicted war criminal Ghulam Azam, 92, finally escaped execution as he died naturally on Thursday night at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University.
Mastermind of many notorious war crimes of the 1971 Liberation War, the former Jamaat-e-Islami chief died of cardiac arrest. He had been suffering from several old age complications.
Ghulam Azam, the guru of anti-liberation Jamaat-e-Islami, became the symbol of all war criminals of 1971. He was given 90-year imprisonment by a war crimes tribunal though he deserved death by hanging for committing heinous crimes, the trial court said in its judgement last year.
Led by Shaheed Janani (mother of martyrs) Jahanara Imam in 1992, the first-ever people’s court (a symbolic public trial of Ghulam) in the history of Bangladesh pronounced death penalty for Ghulam at the historic Suhrawardy Udyan in the presence of thousands of people for the offences he had committed during the war.
His execution has been an age-old demand of the pro-liberation citizens.
Referring to Bangladesh's achievement in the CPA, IPU and ITU elections, Joy said: “Today has been the culmination of a tremendous two weeks for our Awami League Government and Bangladesh.”
Mentioning that Bangladesh's victory in these polls proves that the government has gained popularity in the world community, he further said: “In all of these successes we were voted in by a majority of countries around the world. This is a tremendous recognition of our standing and popularity in the world.”
He wrote that he was proud to be a Bengali and of his Government and the Nation.