It all changed in just two days. On Tuesday, wife of war criminal Abdul Quader Molla flashed the V sign on her way to meeting her husband at the prison, but yesterday she looked pale, frustration in her eyes, when she came out of Dhaka Central Jail.
In his last family meet, Molla instructed his family members to stay calm because he was going to be an Islamic “martyr.” He told his children not to take any revenge as he believed that “Allah will take revenge against those for whom he is going to die.”
The family members reached the Dhaka Central Jail at 6:25pm to meet Quader Molla as the Appellate Division had rejected his petition for reviewing the death sentence. They were: wife Sanowar Jahan, son Hasan Jamil, daughters Amatullah Sharmeen and Amatullah Nazneen, their child and nephew, and Molla’s cousin. They came on a white microbus and were inside the jail until 7:07pm.
After coming out, Hasan Jamil told the Dhaka Tribune that his father could get seven more days to think about the presidential clemency. “We do not know why everyone is saying the jail code may not be applicable.”
Quader Molla had wished to meet his counsels again, he said.
Asked about his mother’s condition why she looked pale, he said: “Not at all! She is fine as she talked to our father."
“Father told her that she had done a lot for him and that he could never give her economic solvency. He wished Allah send her to him soon.”
Molla’s daughters were in tears.
To his political fellows. Molla reportedly said: “After my death you have to use my blood to establish Islam with more patience and tolerance.” Hasan said Molla had asked them not to involve with any destructive work. Molla asked his sons not to try to take revenge.
Hasan said all family members were mentally strong. “Father tried to consult family matters like ownership of wealth and so on, but we told him not to worry about that. We will tackle and settle down these issues.” Molla told his family members to strictly stay in the way of truth and Halal.
Asked where they plan to bury Molla, Hasan said: “Father wishes to be buried near our Faridpur village home. But we are not sure when the jail authority will hand over his body to us. We have no idea about their plan.”
