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Dhaka gets tough with Islamists on 40th Victory Day
Thursday December 16, 2010 02:12:17 PM,
IANS
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Dhaka: A top opposition leader was held on murder
charge and a court rejected a petition of the chief of the largest
Islamist party as Bangladesh Thursday celebrated its 40th Bijoy
Divas (liberation day), marking its separation from Pakistan.
In a blow to the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), authorities
arrested its Standing Committee member Salahuddin Qader Chowdhury,
who leads the Islamists within the main opposition party and is
considered close to former prime minister Khaleda Zia.
His detention took place Wednesday for his alleged involvement in
killing Nutan Chandra Kundu, a Hindu entrepreneur and
philanthropist, in Chittagong port town April 13, 1971, besides
107 others during the freedom movement.
Government investigators have moved the International Crimes
Tribunal set up to try those accused of targeting unarmed
civilians in 1971. The tribunal fixed next Sunday for hearing the
petition.
In detaining Chowdhury on murder charge, Prime Minister Sheikh
Hasina's government is following the same drill of having arrested
the top brass of Jamaat-e-Islami, the country's largest Islamist
party, earlier this year, on charges other than "war crimes".
A bench of the high court Wednesday summarily rejected the
petition to quash the "war crimes" trial of Jamaat chief Motiur
Rahman Nizami, The Daily Star reported.
Besides Nizami, Jamaat Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad
Mojahid, Senior Assistant Secretary General Muhammad Kamaruzzaman,
and Assistant Secretary General Abdul Quader Molla are under
detention.
While the BNP says it is for impartial trials, the Jamaat leaders
deny any role in the 1971 killings and say the detentions are
politically motivated.
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