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Editorial
The Pioneer
Monday, March 8, 2004

The murderous attack on Prof Humayun Azad, celebrated
Bangladeshi writer, poet, and head of Dhaka University's
Bangla department, on February 27, and the events
following, have once again underlined the threat that
fundamentalist Islamist elements have come to pose to the
values of Bangladesh's freedom struggle-secularism,
democracy and modernism-and those committed to these. If
the attack, which severely injured Prof Azad, was a
dastardly act in itself, the twist which none other than
Bangladesh's Prime Minister, Begum Khaleda Zia, had tried
to give it was both sinister and cynical. She alleged at
a public meeting on February 28, the day a general strike
had been called by the Awami League, that the latter had
engineered the attack to exploit it to make the strike a
success.

The allegation, which was reminiscent of Hitler's
attribution of the Reichstag fire in 1933 to the
Communists and Socialists, was followed, within an hour
of the crime, by the arrest of Abbas, a leader of the
Awami League's student organisation, the Chhatra League.
The question arises as to how the Bangladeshi police, the
inefficiency of which was thoroughly exposed when, in
October, 2002, the Bangladesh Army had to launch
"Operation Cleanheart" to curb the spiralling crime rate,
could so soon zero in on Abbas, who is also joint
secretary of Rahman Hall in the Dhaka University hostel,
as a suspect. Or was his arrest planned along with the
attempt to murder Prof Azad, by elements close to the
incumbent regime?

Not surprisingly, many in Bangladesh tend to believe
former Prime Minister and Awami League leader Sheikh
Hasina's claim that Begum Zia's allegation represents a
clumsy attempt to divert attention from the fact that the
fundamentalist Islamist forces, associated with the
alliance, Islami Oikya Jote, which is a partner in her
Government, were behind the crime. They had been
threatening him ever since the publication of his novel
Pak Sar Zamin Sad Bad, which dwells on the horrific
atrocities committed by Pakistani troops during
Bangladesh's liberation struggle in 1971, in the Id issue
of a popular Bengali daily. Besides, this is not the
first time these elements have tried to murder an
intellectual like Prof Azad who has been trying to keep
alive the secular, liberal and democratic traditions of
the liberation struggle.

In October, 1999, the Harkat-ul-Jihad-e-Islami, a
terrorist militia allied with the Jamaat-e-Islami, had
tried to murder the country's most celebrated poet, Mr
Shamsur Rahman. The interrogations that had followed the
arrest of 10 of its activists and the closure of its
office at the Dhaka suburb of Khilgaon, had unravelled a
plot to kill 28 of Bangladesh's leading intellectuals
including the author, Taslima Nasreen. Begum Zia, who has
assured Prof Azad's family security and has promised to
send him abroad for treatment, if necessary, should know
that such moves will not absolve her Government of blame
unless it arrests those really behind the attack and
ensures their conviction. Nothing short of it will do.

Read the complete news at:
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Jai Maharaj
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