Untold Facts

Isolated Hasina after Hanging Anti BKSAL Coup Leaders

Reading through the interview contents of Syed Tarek Reehman, son of hanged Col Syed Farook Reehman, I got in the Internet, many legal, moral and ethical points lost in the propaganda galore became clear. The point being that the spineless judges turned the clear case of successful mutiny finally into an ordinary killing and judicial murder of the five deeply patriots through the verdict of the Kangaroo Court. The other point was that the outside civilized countries in the world and many organizations of reckon not only opposed the hanging but also they were given understanding that their death sentence would be commuted. In fact that went opposite and so they broke the promise or understanding the Government had given. The incident has thus created credibility gap both outside and inside for Hasina’s conspicuous vengeful psyche of the worst inhuman kind that is certain to seriously harm Bangladesh in the years ahead if Hasina remains there in the top of the administration.
The enlightened civilized men and women and those who knew basics of law knew very well that the so-called ‘murder case’ Hasina framed against the Anti BKSAL Coup Leaders in late 1996 could have been in no way a simple case of killing under Cr.P.C. for death of some including her father. The annulment of the Indemnity Act through simple majority being the Act part of the 5th Amendment of the Constitution that required two third majority votes and in the absence of the opposition in the Parliament had been illegal. The scheming to have ‘no objection certificate’ from the Army Chief, her FUFA posted there in the position taking him in from leave preparatory to retirement happened to be anything but at least scheming and grossly immoral but to suit her lust for blood for blood (See, BBC fame Serajur Rahman, Daily Nayadiganta, 24 March 2009).

Then on and on she continued to maintain collusive engagement and interference during her fist term 1996 to 2001 at every level and then on to the last REVIEW stage in January 2010. It is a fact that she had new Chief Justice appointed for a few days, a junior one superseding other in the seniority list. Everybody in the know of things had been saying almost openly that the new Chief Justice would reject the Review petition and upheld the SC verdict of 19th November that he exactly did in three days time on the 27th January giving damn to even the benefit of doubt that would well at least commute the death sentence before he went on to retirement on the 7th February (2010). Within hours the five accused in detention for nearly 14 years hanged at dead of night even without regularly processing the Mercy petitions.

The repeated appeals from the Amnesty International, Bar Human rights Committee of England and Wales, the European Union, etc. and of the Saudi, British etc. went unheeded. Hasina was very smart to hang the five to death with unusual haste for there were other pressures mounting against the executions. Governments like the Saudi and the British would know well that they had promptly recognized the post 15th August 1975 army coup government of Khondoker Moustaque Ahmad not for fancy but for legitimately good reasons. That meant that the coup makers were not simple killers but victorious coup makers that made the occurrence legitimate and valid in law.

The executions though met Hasina’s beastly thirst for blood, she has proved herself not only a megalomaniac but a foe of the country through antagonizing otherwise friends at the international level that Bangladesh needs very seriously and urgently. There is no short cut to repair the damage done. Her subservience to and over appeasement of Delhi and Kolkatta would not be of any compensation in this matter.

Among the outsiders it was only R&AW and Delhi and some in Kolkatta were elated just like the gullibles of the Awami League and their HEREMER RAKHSMITAs (that term was used by Hasina’s father in 1973) at the executions and not the overwhelming majority people of Bangladesh. The silent majority have been dumb founded in the executions for those who can recall the 15th August 1975 jubilation have no reason but to be extremely sad and must distance from Hasina.

Author: B K Din