Sohagpur 34 widows want execution of Wat Criminal Kamaruzzaman-Sumi Khan

On 9 May 2013 the International Crimes Tribunal sentenced him to death after it found Kamaruzzaman guilty of crimes against humanity including genocide, killing, rape, looting, arson, and deportation of people during the Bangladesh Liberation War. Bangladesh's Supreme Court has upheld the death penalty handed down for a Jamaat-e-Islami leader for atrocities committed more than four decades ago, the latest in a spate of rulings against the Islamist party's officials.
Mohammad Kamaruzzaman, 62, assistant secretary-general of the party, was found guilty on Monday of genocide and torture of unarmed civilians during the 1971 war to breakaway from Pakistan, by a special war crimes tribunal in May last year.
Under Bangladesh jail code, the execution of an accused could be carried out within 21 days and before 28 days of the Supreme Court's latest upholding of a death sentence on 3rd November,2014. .
"The jail authorities will start the process of his execution after getting the certified copy of the verdict," our correspondent said, adding that Kamaruzzaman can only file a review petition to "buy a little more time, or hope for presidential clemency, which is unlikely to be granted under the present government".   Assistant Secretary General Kamaruzzaman was sent to the gallows on seven counts of crimes against humanity including murder, genocide, torture and forced deportation.is the senior assistant secretary general of the militant political party Bangladesh Jamayat-e-Islami convicted of war crimes during the 1971 Liberation war of Bangladesh.He is also the editor of the Militant organization Jamayat e Islam owned Weekly Sonar Bangla.  In 1971, eight members of Jaritan’s family, including her husband and son, were gunned down. “They dragged my husband out of our house to the yard and shot him six times. When he wanted water, they shot him again and he breathed his last. They brought my treasure trove, my son Hashem, threw him on his father’s dead body and killed him as well. Then they stabbed my brother-in-law with a bayonet and eventually killed him shooting inside his mouth,” Jaritan thus described her dreadful experience 43 years back.

Jabeda Bewa, widow of another martyr Fazar Ali, said,“Kamaruzzaman, the leader of those who killed our men, has been sentenced to death. That is the least solace that we could have expected for our heavy hearts.”

Bewa is a title given to widows in some areas of Bangladesh.

Nure Maan Bewa, wife of martyr Jasimuddin, said: “The Pakistani soldiers did not know the area. Razakars and al-Badr members showed them the way. They are the ones who did the massacre, made us widows and killed our relatives. They told the Pakistan soldiers that there were freedom fighters in our village. Kamaruzzaman was their leader. The death sentence will give us blood for blood. We are happy.”

That infamous mass killing turned the Sohagpur village in Nalitabari of Sherpur “manless.” After that, just like uncountable other villages across the country, Sohagpur also came to be known as a “village of widows.”

These widows have all testified against Kamaruzzaman in the war crimes case.

Jalaluddin, son of 1971 martyr Safir Uddin said,  they were happy with the verdict and scared too. “Kamaruzzaman’s followers have been threatening us. They said they would teach us a good lesson when there is a change in power.”A total of 34 widows of Liberation War martyrs live in the village today. For most of them, the only sources of income are the meagre allowances from the government and a few private banks which by no stretch of imagination are reasonable.

On July 25, 1971, Pakistani soldiers ran a massacre in Sohagpur village on the Indian border – some 36km from Sherpur district town. On that day, they, along with their Razakar and al-Badr collaborators, killed at least 187 men in just six hours. They broke into people’s houses and brutally killed innocent peasants and labourers. Jamaat leader Kamaruzzaman, then a leader of Jamaat-e-Islami’s student front Islami Chhatra Sangha, was at the forefront.

Many people from greater Sherpur area testified as prosecution witness against Kamaruzzaman before the International Crimes Tribunal, which handed down death sentence to the war criminal in May last year. The Supreme Court yesterday upheld that verdict after hearing Kamaruzzaman’s appeal petition.

One of them was Manwar Hossain Khan alias Mohan Munshie. “I wanted to be a freedom fighter. But Kamaruzzaman forced said." me to become the security guard of a torture cell that he had set up in the house of Suren Babu.”  Another witness Mojibur Rahman Panu said: “In 1971, Kamaruzzaman and his men picked me up from my house and took me to the Ahmadnagar camp. There they lined up many people and opened fire on them. I survived miraculously.” Sohagpur widows  want execution of the verdict immediately!

Heart-wrenching scenes: Wagah blast victims death toll rose to 62 on Monday

Soldiers carry coffin of Capt Shumaila Nadeem, who along with her husband & 2 daughters, was killed in Wagah border.

LAHORE: Amid heart-wrenching scenes in Lahore's hospitals, where bodies of Wagah blast victims were handed over to their families after postmortem, Pakistani authorities announced the arrest of at least 20 people, including a suspected suicide bomber, for Sunday's attack. The death toll rose to 62 on Monday.

Authorities said they recovered 8kg explosive and a suicide vest from area flanking the blast site, even as entire Pakistan was on red alert on Muharram eve to deter any possible attack on Shias who've been targeted by the Taliban and its offshoots in the past. Cops in Lahore told news agencies that residential areas in Wagah were being searched and 20 people were arrested, including a 17-year-old suspected suicide-bomber, Abdul Rehman, a resident of Multan district, 350km away. Rehman had gone missing from a seminary in the old city of Lahore a month ago.

"Police along with an intelligence agency raided a house in Multan and arrested Rehman," a cop said, adding Rehman is now at an unknown place being questioned.
Cops in Lahore told news agencies that residential areas in Wagah were being searched and 20 people were arrested, including a 17-year-old suspected suicide-bomber, Abdul Rehman, a resident of Multan district, 350km away. Rehman had gone missing from a seminary in the old city of Lahore a month ago.

"Police along with an intelligence agency raided a house in Multan and arrested Rehman," a cop said, adding Rehman is now at an unknown place being questioned.

Women Madrasa :Breeding ground of Militancy

The women nabbed at the Burdwan blast site on 2nd October have admitted to having received training in a Khariji madrassa in Mangalkot. Women schooled in khariji madrassas have played a key role in the entire plot. Two Bangladeshi bomb makers — Shamim Shakil Ahmed and Sovan Mondal — died in the explosion.

Ahmed’s widow Gulshana (Rumi) Bibi and Sovan's widow Amina Bibi, residents of the bomb-assembling unit, were arrested soon after the blast. the state CID (criminal investigating department) has recovered a SIM card registered in the name of a third woman, Rajira Bibi. The SIM was used to make several calls to terrorist Shakil Ahmed (Shakil was blown to pieces in the blast).

police arrested Abdul Hakim, who is recovering in Burdwan Medical College. He received arms training at Lalgola's Mokumnagar Madrassa.Rumi Bibi (Ahmed’s widow)stated that The terror group Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB, a terror outfit linked to the banned Jamaat-e-Islami) was planning to make rocket launchers with lathe machines. Rumi Bibi had told security agencies that they sent four consignments of bombs in the last three months through Kausar and another man called Rasiq. security teams are using call data records of the dead terrorists and the injured to track their accomplices in India. Police said they found documents linked to al Qaeda and Chechen rebels, as many as 55 Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), 40 explosives (25 were grenades), large amount of chemicals used in making bomb(like acetone, ammonium nitrate, magnesium etc.), several detonators, a number of wristwatch dials, mobile devices and more. They clearly suggest that the Trinamool Congress leader’s house and the regional party office was being used as a terrorist safehouse and a cottage bomb manufacturing unit.

NIA official said "By the time our officers reached the spot there was a teething hurry on part of the local police to destroy the evidence. The police wanted it to seem like a cylinder blast and hence all the explosives and similar other evidence was taken away to the banks of Damodar and detonated.
(The bomb disposal ‎unit was very present and could have contained any explosion if that is what the local police was worried about, the NIA says.)

On questioning some of the suspects the NIA also learnt that the accused at the spot were being aided in destroying the evidence. On interrogation of the two women they learnt that communication details between the local leaders and the ploy to target the Bangladesh government is what was being protected. The police wanted it to seem like a cylinder blast and hence all the explosives were taken away and detonated.

Standard operating procedure mandates that evidence is preserved. Intelligence bureau officers and the NIA term this an attempt on part of the local police and government to cover up the operation. The police tried to :
i) make it seem as a cylinder blast
ii) burn down all documents linking local leaders to the Jamaat-e-Islami which was planning on using West Bengal as breeding ground to target the Awami League.
iii) Coaching the accused woman to reveal nothing and feign ignorance.
iv) Non-Cooperation ‎with central agencies like NIA, IB and R&AW.
v) reject an NIA probe despite national and international ramifications, as Mamta Banerjee insists on keeping them away.
vi) Ignore the IB alert after Jamaat link has been proven in case of multi billion rupees Saradha Scam.

Two more houses used by the Burdwan blast suspect have been found at a walking distance from the Khagragarh house where the explosion took place. There was a huge hue nd cry against the local SP Mr. S M H Mirza . Demand for his resignation was made by opposition parties like BJP as well as some local groups. They alleged he was abetting the crimes for a long time now and the government is doing nothing despite having full knowledge of these activities. What makes the situation more embarrassing is the fact that the site of bomb making was withing a kilometer of the CID office.

Recently, The head of the little-known Ansar al-Tawhid fi’Bilad al-Hind urged Muslims to kill foreigners and other infidels in India. Fugitive jihadist Sultan Abdul Kadir Armar, a former resident of southern India who attended a Madrassa before going to Pakistan, said in a statement :  "Kill the idol worshippers wherever you find them ... shoot them if you can, stab them, throw stones at their heads, poison them, run them over, burn their fields - and if you are unable ... spit in their faces," referring to Hindus.

flags of the insurgent group have appeared at rallies in Indian Kashmir. Also the IB has warned the neighboring states against the terrorists taking a temporary refuge following the exposure they face due to the Burdwan blast. Members who have been operating under the banner of Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen, Bangladesh JuM(B) will make attempts to flee West Bengal. The warning is specific to the states of Bihar, Assam and Jharkhand.