Maulana Motiur Rahman Nizami, Ameer (President), Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami (BJI) is the next victim of the unjust and corrupt judiciary system of Bangladesh. He has been sentenced to death in accusation of crime against humanity. Crime against humanity! A person who dedicated his whole life to serving humanity has been sentenced to death for crime against humanity! Unbelievable! May be something is going wrong. Maulana Motiur Rahman Nizami was charged with 16 cases and convicted in nine of them by the so-called International Crimes Tribunal (ICT). We will analyse here how he has been given capital punishment on false charges and crystal clear fabricated evidence in the nine cases as available on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ_I0P0duNs)
CHARGE-1: KACHIMUDDIN MURDER CASE
Among 16 charges filed by Bangladesh police after 40 years of the incident, the first one was Maulana Kachimuddin murder case. In this charge he has been given life imprisonment based on the absolute false charge and more absolute fabricated evidences and false witnesses which had been submitted to the so-called Bangladesh ICT.
In the charge sheet the eldest son of Maulana Kachimuddin, G.S.M.A Chisti, Pabna district Mukti Yudha (Freedom Fighter) Commander Habibur Rahman Habib and Habib’s brother Shahidullah were mentioned as key witnesses of the incident, where Mr. Chisti was mentioned as eye-witness. But mysteriously the government prosecution did not present him in the court. Only Habibur Rahman was called for witness. In his witness Habib claimed that all the family members of Maulana Kachimuddin, including his elder son Mr. Chisti, had left the country 15 years ago and presently live in the United States. He also claimed that Kachimuddin’s another son and his close friend Mr. Shibli told him about Maulana Nizami’s physical involvement in his father’s murder.
But the truth tells us another story. The eye-witness, as mentioned in the charge sheet, Mr. Chisti lives at his native village where his father was killed in Pabna district till now. Why he was not presented in the tribunal for witness in spite of mentioning him as eye-witness in the charge sheet? The reason is clear that the government was not able to manage Mr. Chisti to speak their own version against Maulana Nizami. Later on in a video interview, Mr. Chisti exposed the truth. “Maulana Nizami was not involved in my father’s murder in any way even though they implicated him falsely. He was not involved,” said Mr. Chisti in the interview.
On the other hand, after knowing that Habibur Rahman Habib had given witness in the so-called ICT claiming him as a close friend, Mr. Shibli, another son of slain Maulana Kachimuddin denied any friendship with Habibur Rahman and he also claimed that he never met with him. “Habibur Rahman is five years younger than me and the incident of meeting with him in 1971, as Habib claimed during his witness in the Tribunal is absolutely false. I never met with him.” Mr. Habib said in a statement published in a newspaper (The Weekly Bangla Patrika).
Another eye-witness and freedom fighter, Shahid Ali was allegedly offered bribe for giving false witness but he rejected it due to fear of Allah. “They (Investigators) asked me, how many people came to kill Maulana Kachimuddin? I replied two but I did not recognise them. Then the Investigating Officer Abdur Razzak Khan requested me that you just have to tell one lie that Maulana Nizami was present during the killing. But I denied doing so. After knowing that I am a small wood trader, he offered me money for my business but I never agreed. Whatever the investigators wrote in the report referring to me is absolutely false,” Shahid Ali said frankly in a video interview.
CHARGE-2: RUPSHI, DOMRA AND BOUSHGORI VILLAGE KILLING
According to this charge, Maulana Nizami was accused of killing 450 persons, rapes of women, gutting and plundering houses. In this case prosecution presented many witnesses; among those witnesses PW-11 Advocate Samsul Haque Nannu, eye-witness and lone survival of Boushgori village killing Azhar Pramanik and PW-18 Johrul Haque were most important; finally based on these witnesses the tribunal sentenced to death Maulana Nizami.
A video interview shows the local Awami League leader Advocate Samsul Haque Nannu stating that the police and some Ministers threatened him for not agreeing to be a witness against Maulana Nizami. In two video interviews Mr. Nannu confessed everything frankly.
But the most important proof is a sting operation now available on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qyo4GVEvxs) where Mr. Nannu revealed the prosecution’s evil play to manipulate evidence and witness. Based on this sting operation, London based daily newspaper The Telegraph published a report on 19 September, 2013. After this report the credibility of the so-called ICT was criticised globally. This so-called eye-witness, Mr. Nannu exposed how the government planned the conspiracy to implicate Maulana Nizami falsely in this case.
In this secret video, Mr. Nannu stated his story how he became the most important witness of this case. Before being compelled to give false witness in the ICT he expressed his fear in a video interview, “If I do not agree with them, they (the police) will pick me up first. And then they will rehearse me the deposition and then I will have to reproduce that with commas, semi-colons and full stops. Otherwise the next day the RAB will force me into disappearance too. If I say anything outside their instruction, they will attach me with some cases and arrest me.”
“My family voted (for) Jamaat-e-Islami in the last election. Because of that, my son was beaten brutally. They broke my son’s arm. I didn’t want any trouble further. I wasn’t engaged in anything though they made me accused in five false cases. I had to save my life. I spent nearly 1.5 crore Taka just to survive against the ruling party. I have been through a lot. How I became a witness against Maulana Nizami? My son got the job of an ASP (Police) as a BCS cadre. But he was about to lose his job for this (for voting Jamaat). The guy who took me to Samsul Haque Tuku, State Minister for Home Affairs Ministry, Hasina government, was Major General Imrul Kayes. Later on he had been promoted to Lieutenant General. Then I came to an agreement with Tuku. He (Tuku) said me that you were a freedom fighter, if you testify the way I tell you then your son can keep his job. Thus I became the government witness,” Mr. Nannu described his story in the sting operation.
Mr. Nannu witnessed in the court that Maulana Nizami was the person who showed the way to Pakistan army to reach the village which resulted in the killing of around 450 people, the allegation which led Maulana Nizami to sentence to death. But in another video interview available on YouTube, Mr. Nannu revealed the truth when he said, “The person who showed the way for Army to the village was another person; he was caught by the freedom fighters soon after the ‘Mukti Yudha’ ended. He was called Asad, not Maulana Nizami. Asad was tried in a ‘Gana Adalat’ (People’s Court) by the freedom fighters and hanged in front of hundreds and thousands people in the broad daylight. The names of Maulana Nizami, Abdus Subhan or Prof. Gulam Azam were never mentioned regarding this case and people also never accused them for the last 40 years.”
Azhar Pramanik, the lone survival of Boushgori village killing, was also not presented in the court though he was mentioned as a key eye-witness of Boushgori killing in the charge sheet. He completely denied any kind of involvement of Maulana Nizami in the incident.
“I am Azhar Pramanik. My father’s name is Lalu Pramanik. The Army picked me up from my home and kept in a camp but when I ran away from there, they (Army) fired me twice, and immediately I fell down and became senseless; they seemed me dead and left me. The army had shot dead rest of those who were captured along with me. Maulana Nizami had no involvement in this killing. He was not present there and we never saw him in the village during the freedom war,” he stated frankly in an interview.
CHARGE-4: KARAMJA VILLAGE KILLING
In this charge Maulana Nizami was accused of killing eight persons at the house of Megha Thakur at Karamja village on 8 May, 1971. The charge includes another allegation against him which was killing of two persons named Habibur Rahman and Akkas Ali on 24/25 April, 1971 at the same village.
The government prosecution showed Pradip Kumar Dev as the key witness in this case as his father was killed in this incident. But interestingly, during his witness, Pradip Kumar Dev refused to give false witness against Maulana Nizami. He clearly said, “Maulana Nizami never visited Karamja village and he was not involved in my father’s murder. The Army with the help of Asad Razakar killed those eight persons, including my father. Later on Asad was hanged by the Mukti Yudha just after the independence war in 1971.”
Unable to manage Pradip Kumar to give false witness, the government prosecution submitted another four persons’ names as witness in the tribunal. They included Ansar Ali Pramanik, Abdur Rahman Sardar and Mongali Rani Devi. But none of them was brought to the court for witness against Maulana Nizami.
“Then the investigation team came at the village but they did not ask me anything about the incident. They only requested me again and again to give false witness but I did not agree. How I can give witness against a person while I never saw him,” said Ansar Ali Pramanik in a video interview.
Another government enlisted witness Abdur Rahman said clearly, “I even never heard his name during the war. Only when he contested in an election, I knew him first time.”
Instead of producing these persons in front of court, the prosecution just presented the written confessional statements of them as evidence. But all these four witnesses said that they never mentioned that Maulana Nizami was involved in the killing of Karamja village. Based on these self-made statements of prosecution the court sentenced Maulana Nizami to death while these types of statements have no judicial value.
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