Untold Facts

Who’s not Killer? ‘KE KHUNI AR KE NOI’: ‘RAW AND HASINA’

Earlier in late1990s I used to write columns for a Bengali daily not as a professional journalist but as an aged teacher purely out of my own conscience. Hasina was there since 23 June 1996 as the top boss of the government of Bangladesh. Suddenly, she swooped on the anti-BKSAL coup leaders of historic 15th August 1975 whoever was present in the country in mid August 1996. She started to use the abusive term KHUNI or killer for those coup operators. In difference, I wrote a few articles not published only in the same daily but also some other pointing out that they were not KHUNIs but heroes of successful coup d etat of August 1975. I further continued to argue that there could have been no murder case against them on the incident of change of government was fully legal in the eye of law. She cared nothing. Instead she used her special police squad with all ruthlessness conceivable against the arrested few, even against the wife Zobaida of Col Rashid who was out of the country- she was later on freed though for mounting international pressure and left the country. Those arrested were put not only on continuing rigorous police remand, detention and ultimately filed concocted ‘Mujib murder case’ against 20 accused. As usual she continued the venom of propaganda in the spineless pliant media by constantly abusing the coup operators as KHUNI that proved her utter vengeance for those otherwise deeply patriots.

I then wrote a very straight forward item stating facts that Mujib was the much bigger KHUNI. Unfortunately, that was not published in the daily, not in any other print media. Later on, on enquiry one of the Assistant Editors told me that the Editor had just torn down the item into pieces and disposed off in the waste paper basket. I am afraid I have no copy of the item readily available. My change of residences twice in the mean time, and also passing away of my wife made all mess of old manuscripts.

Nearly after fifteen years, some of those memories started to hunt me just after reading through the facts in an article in a Dhaka daily published on the 2nd March (10) of an octogenarian expatriate journalist. Because, I found that the octogenarian and highly experienced journalist made some echo of what I had written and lost without being published anywhere. I labeled Mujib as the worst Khuni or killer in Bangladesh history. Incidentally the Octogenarian had been very close to Mujib, prompted and profusely projected him up as the big hero in late 1960s and early 1970s. I was rather taken by surprise if he could have now raised the valid question, ‘KE KHUNI AR KE NOI’ (Who is killer and who not?) in the recent past Bangladesh history of nearly 40 years. He has raised equally pertinent question about the fidelity of Hasina in regard to her involvement in murder and working as Indian Intelligence operative clearly pointing out ‘R&AW AR HASINA’ (R&AW and Hasina) working here for India against the greater interest of Bangladesh. He referred to her stay in Delhi under the surveillance of the same Indian Intelligence organization for long six years following the August coup, and got fully brain-washed.

Since Hasina has already hanged to death five of the anti-BKSAL coup leaders on the 27-28 January, the blackest night in history, through clear judicial murder following the verdict of Kangaroo Court constituted by the spineless judges despite resistance worldwide, she had gained courage in use of the term KHUNI she started as the P.M. in 1996. She had added courage for that those hanged to death happened to be former brilliant army officers and decorated freedom fighters of 1971. Possibly that is what further made her more arrogant to use the abusive term for Zia in the floor of the Parliament. former President Zia’s Opposition party BNP members protested and made a walk out from the session of the house right then in mid February (2010) and also latest on the 2nd March. Further Zia bashing has now been continuing, for example, in Hasina boastfully publicly announced changing of the name of the Dhaka international airport deleting ‘Zia’ in the appellation that stayed for 28 years to ‘Shah Jalal’, a Muslim saint of the 14th century Hindu feudal Bengal, nothing to do with politics as in the 21st century Bangladesh.

The airport was neither named by Zia himself nor by his party BNP as he had set the best examples so far in honesty, integrity and allegiance to the ideals of Islam but by President Ershad following Zia’s passing away in May 1981. Zia as the declarer of independence on the 26th/27 March 1971 when Mujib declined to make Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) and voluntarily surrendered to the federal army, but Zia showed his broadness to mention Mujib’s name in the second or third announcement, and then also he fought valiantly in the war field in 1971, mutual killings in encounter or combat were nothing uncommon for that in no way he could be labeled as KHUNI. On this account Mujib escaped war and voluntarily surrendered to the federal army on the mid night of the 25th March 1971. But before the surrender he incited his murderous followers to unleash reign of terror, particularly, on the non-Bengali population all over East Pakistan that continued until about end May 1971. The liability on this account of murder of unaccounted thousands must remain on Mujib’s shoulder.

Hasina’s persistent hatred for Zia is not only for the fact that Zia did not, in her belief, punish the coup makers to death that Hasina took as he had links with Hasina’s father Mujib’s killing in August 1975. This was not ordinary killing, he got killed in encounter in the successful mutiny of the army that despite the pliant court’s final verdict of the 27th January (2010) remained controversial worldwide as miscarriage of justice and judicial killing verdict passed by spineless judges, and so the term KHUNI Hasina used for decades was in no way neutrally, fairly and without executive interference established and so remained only mockery of justice in the matter, much less proved Zia as the KHUNI. The other and more important reason for hatred was that Zia had not only had hold on to power after her father’s demise but also provided a different and distinct direction for the nation away from Mujib’s that continues still today despite hunky panky with the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution. Here lay the crucial issue not only of Hasina’s but also of Delhi’s aversion for Zia. Here they found themselves very close and intimate for collusion against the common popular aspirations of the overwhelming majority people of Bangladesh. The issue was the changed basic principles of the Constitution from what Delhi had set in 1972 from secularism, socialism and Bengali nationalism to Absolute Faith and Trust in Allah, social justice and Bangladeshi nationalism. In 1971 for India’s involvement in the war they had clear goal, the goal the pre-1947 Indian Congress had for a Akhanda Bharat comprising the whole subcontinent that would be run, controlled and dominated by the party having the facade of secularism as Nehru had had in his view but in fact permanent subjugation of all minorities in the so-called High Caste dominated whole India. In Bengal undivided, the Chatterjees, Bannerjees, Boses, Mukerjees, etc and not Bengali Sheikhs or their genres, saddled at the Calcutta Writers’ Building now MAHAKORON would rule, Dhaka remaining at best a divisional town kept neglected as of the British period.

The post 1971 period for about the first three and a half years under Hasina’s father no matter whether wittingly or unwittingly had been yielding almost everything to Delhi and the R&AW. The change of August 1975 made a death blow to the evil FARAOH and India’s evil designs. Zia had hardly been any actor in the 15th August change but just only made a follow up of tracking in the changed direction initiated on the 15th August. Had the coup failed and Zia would not have come to the leadership, BKSAL stayed, Killer Rakhsmi Bahini made stronger and would have replaced the regular army, but Mujib’s lust for dynastic goal would have been materialized just like either Sheikh Abdullah of Jammu and Kashmir, if not like towards elimination of Lendup Darjee of Sikim.

Mujib was averse to the regular army of the country for his shallow perception. The same shallow perception goes much deeper in Hasina’s psyche in her added anger for the army ‘killed’ her father and some relations in the August coup. Thus to her the army men are KHUNI. One wonders if the same vengeful psyche had actively been in operation for the BDR Massacre of 57 brilliant army officers in two days and two dark nights last year on 25-26 February in her full knowledge and information! Such anti-national psyche not only suits her goal for renewed dynastic aim but also of India’s, Delhi’s and of the R&AW in compliance with the Israeli intelligence MOSSAD, as well.

Having these back ups why should she care for the tiny Opposition in the Parliament, much less for Zia? The pliant media are ever ready to dump all KHUNIs to the dustbin making Mujib and Hasina the angels of the nation. Unfortunately there are still some who would continue to expose them with substantive facts as I did elsewhere a few days ago. I found some additional clue in the 2nd March article, as well. That I recorded elsewhere from one of the horses mouth of 1971 Governor Malek cabinet still alive. The same was hinted in this article in sizing up some ‘HOT HEADED’ by Yahya’s troops prompted by Mujib in those dastardly days following 1971. One must wonder that was why though Yahya put him to trial for treason and verdict obtained in early August, he did not sign the file in over five months he stayed as the President until 20th December 1971. If anything of the allegation is true, Mujib can not escape the killing liability of 1971 whosoever had had committed. He can not evade the responsibility of all killings that went on before army action not only in Dhaka but also in locations in East Pakistan of non-Bengali concentrations in thousands, all remained unaccounted and no scope for enumeration in future. The extrajudicial killings of Seraj Sikder plus 40,000 remained there on record as the additional liability of Mujib.

As about Hasina, her hands are stained with blood of many unaccounted in 1996-2001 when she gave the standing order made publicly to ‘kill ten for one’ and going on again now since January 2009 by her forces of all hoodlum varieties formal and informal. She can hardly escape liability of the lives of the six dozen martyrs including 57 brilliant army officers of the 25-26 February 2009 BDR Massacre and of the 27-28 January (2010) martyrs of the five historic judicial murders, if not very soon but certainly in the future history of the nation and the country. One must wonder if this murderous woman stays there in power how many more innocent lives must she take as killer to perpetuate her dynastic aim.

Author: B K Din