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THE WHOLE NATION IS PUT TO SHAME BY THE NEO-BKSALITES



I am saddened to hear the news of demise of Mr. Taheruddin Thakur. Innalillahi-----Raziun!

May Allah bless his departed soul and may his soul rest in eternal peace!

Mr. Thakur was a brave freedom fighter and a bold journalist who worked tirelessly to shape and move forward Bangladesh. He is an important figure of our national history. Taher Vhai was one of those fearless politicians and freedom fighters that are honest and uncompromising on interpretation of Mujib’s tyranny and one party BAKSAL rule moved him to stake his everything in the August revolution of 1975. Taher Vhai was all prepared to make that supreme sacrifice, as many of us were. We admire his courage and commitment expressed in his eloquent writing. The historic revolutionary speech delivered by President Khondker Mustaque Ahmed in the morning of the revolution on August 15, 1975 was crafted by him. It was a great speech. Mr. Thakur had masterly hand in writing.

Taher Vhai deserved a state funeral. He was a freedom fighter and a national leader. Every person irrespective of social stature in life deserves in death a decent burial with religious rites as prescribed by the religion/ faith of the deceased. Denying Namaz-e-Zanaza to Taheruddin Thakur in a designated mosque in his neighborhood in Dhaka is shocking and disturbing. Whatever may be government’s pretense, common sense would suggest government’s deliberate mean hand in it. It was not an act in isolation. A few plain clothed Awami League thugs would not dare to desecrate a venerable dead in a mosque. So far there has been no official reaction from the government, as if a man called Taheruddin Thakur never existed, died or denied a Namaz-e-Zanaza in broad day light in the capital of the country. This is a renewed audacious expression of a revamped fascist political culture of Sheikh-Hasina’s BAL-NEO BAKSAL, and a manifestation of what her government for “Din Bodoler Rajnetee” holds for the nation!

Hasina’s vanity or vengeance, whatever may be the reason, denying Taheruddin Thakur a Namaz-e- Zanaza in Dhaka was not unexpected Such attitude runs deep down in an un-repented, petty and vindictive Hasina. Watching her current trained tamed posture I questioned if it were a deliberate façade or she had matured and mellowed. Now with this incident in place, on going scores of political murders on daily basis across the country and indiscriminate rounding up of people from a section of the citizenry, it appears she remains the same old fascist and sadist, as many of us have closely known, and many have learnt from Rentu’s description in his book, “Amar Fashi Chai”. No one in their right mind would have done what she did to Taheruddin’s dead body. This amply signals that there should remain no doubt that she will seek vengeance to the last. Many bodies, alive or dead, depending on her whim, will fall and suffer the same indignity or worst. Many of us are on the top of that list.

Hasina, who parrots and politicizes the significance of liberation war, does not care to understand the true spirit and soul of the liberation movement, as her late father BAL leader Mujib did not. Their after the fact perception and our perception – perception of the genuine freedom fighters- of our great liberation movement differs diversely. In reality, they have no respect for true freedom fighters and the liberation movement. They are afraid of the history of the liberation war – they did not and do not want to know and recognize what actually happened? Why and how they don’t or limitedly fit into that equation? How we, the people transformed? How our expectations during the war grew higher and higher by the day? How idealist we became? How we dreamed the liberation of our people – the war or political independence was not an end in itself; it was only a means to an end -total liberation leading to emancipation and empowerment of our people. To obliterate that undaunted lofty spirit of the liberation war that we fought, they recast a new die of their version of the liberation war, and relentlessly continue to politicize it to their personal and partisan gains. I must admit that they have done an astute job – the new generations of your age and younger are sold to BAL’s fabricated version of the liberation war and their veiled fascist rhetoric. Their relentlessly naked propaganda has paid them good dividends in our new generations, unfortunate though. They are craftily skillful at propaganda. Even Goebbels’ propagandists would feel diminutive and ashamed before them.

Sheikh and his daughter, Hasina were no where near the battle fields were the liberation war was fought. For them it was a mere lottery won zero-sum gambling game that they quietly enjoyed and watched with intense excitement of veteran gamblers form a safe distance, in the comfort of hospitality of their Pakistani host. While the people fought a bloody war, they excitedly waited to enjoy the power and pomp at an opportune moment. What mattered to Mujib matters to his daughter: personal ambition and power in perpetuity at whatever cost. Like her father, she relies on clique and conspiracy to satisfy her personal whim and ambition faking to represent people’s interest. There are scores of examples to substantiate what they are accused of. As Mujib did not, she too does not understand or fail to recognize that liberation war was all organic, accepting the final decisive acts which shames us. In its start, it was a war of the people, by the people and for the people. The spark that ignited the war came from a spontaneous sudden rebellion by a directionless fearful fleeing population seeking justice, and rights to life and liberty against a surprise mass massacre, continuous injustice, deprivation and oppression. The electoral result, its residual process in place and participating political parties’ action then were mere co-existential, and ancillary to the fallouts of the rebellion.

Such interpretations were not tolerated by Mujib and Mujibbadis. Nor his daughter accepts those hard facts. A glaring example of their paranoid politics’ ruthlessness was the indignity that the liberation war time Prime Minister of the government in exile, Mr. Tajuddin Ahmed suffered in his life time in Mujib’s hand. Mujib did not feel secured with Tajuddin Ahmed around. He was afraid of Tajuddin’s branding as a freedom fighter and his liberation war time ideas and deeds. Mujib’s daughter Hasina is no different than her father: she continues to suffer the same fear psychosis and remain apprehensive of the freedom fighters, even in their death. No wonder, painful though for us, she denied an honourable flag wrapped, gun saluted funeral to an honourable freedom fighter, Taheruddin Thakur, a journalist eminent.

May Allah’s mercy be on her that she does not suffer the same indignity that she made Taheruddin Thakur suffer, and some forty-thousand Awami League murdered citizens suffered during Mujib’s reign of terror!

As a freedom fighter with a heavy heart I convey on behalf of all my comrades in arms our heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family members, friends and well wishers of this valiant freedom fighter and heroic son of the soil.

Lt.Col. S. Haq (Retd)
BIRUTTAM