In immediate reaction to war criminal Abdul Quader Molla’s execution, his party Jamaat-e-Islami said everyone involved with the trial and execution process would have to face dire consequences.
The party, often linked with war crimes, announced a series of programmes including a dawn-to-dusk hartal for Sunday protesting what the party said was “planned political killing” of its Assistant Secretary General Abdul Quader Molla.
Jamaat Ameer Mokbul Ahmed announced the programme in a statement after the execution of Molla at the Dhaka Central Jail at 10:01pm on Wednesday.
The party will also hold Gayebana Janaza in the city, district and upazila headquarters on Friday, and special prayers tomorrow.
Jamaat threatened ruling Awami League with similar “consequences” for the execution.
“The Awami League and the government will have to repay for every drop of Abul Quader Molla’s blood if he is killed,” acting ameer Mokbul Ahmed said in the statement.
“The government must face public court for carrying out the unlawful, unconstitutional and conspiratorial killing of Abdul Quader Molla.”
Criticising the review process, he, however, urged the party supporters to build resistance against the government’s conspiracy in a “democratic and peaceful way.”
“We want to say clearly that the government is trying to implement its plan to kill Abdul Quader Molla...The law, under which his verdict was pronounced, and the tribunal are questioned and controversial both at home and abroad,” Jamaat said in the statement.
Abdul Latif Nezami, chief of a faction of opposition ally Islami Oikya Jote, said the execution was carried out by a war crimes tribunal which had been questioned since its inception.
“What else I can say about it!” he told the Dhaka Tribune.
Asked for reaction, Junaid Babunagari, secretary general of radical Islamist group Hefazat-e-Islam, declined to comment on the issue.
