Justice must prevail
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History has hardly seen the like of the calculated annihilations of the intellectuals by their own people which happened in our country in 1971. The pictures of disfigured dead bodies and the mass killing sites are stark reminders of the heinous crimes the collaborators committed just two days before our victory, obviously with a motive to make the new nation crippled. They had also involved themselves in the genocide the Pakistani occupation forces carried out during the whole period of our Liberation War when three million people were killed. They were the members of Rajakar, Al-Badr, and Al-Shams and belonged to Jamaat-e-Islami, Nizam-e-Islam and Muslim League. Of the many, immediately after liberation, Maulana Farid Ahmed of Nizam-e-Islam was lynched by the mob for his anti-Bangladesh role. Prof. Golam Azam would have met the same fate if he did not make his escape to Pakistan. Maulana Abdul Matin escaped public wrath by publicly apologizing to Bangabandhu and promising not to do politics in the country. FQ Chowdhury saved himself by going to jail. Later, Begum Zia accorded citizenship to Golam Azam and made his associates members of her cabinet. Regrettably, when all preparations are made for holding the trial of war criminals, BNP is coming in the way with all its might. We are indebted to the martyred intellectuals and freedom fighters for their supreme sacrifices for the nation. The war criminals must be brought to justice.
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