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January 3, 2006
Bangladesh: Islamic Party Blames Government For Hiding Info On Bombers
Islami Oikya Jote (IOJ) is one of the four parties in Bangladesh's coalition government, which is led by Khaleda Zia, of the Bangladesh National Party (BNP). The other parties are the Jatiya party and the Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI). Both JeI and IOJ are Islamic, and aim to see Bangladesh become an Islamic nation. Both parties have been accused of supporting the Islamist perpetrators of bombings which have escalated since August 17, 2005.
The Islamic Oikya Jote responded to accusations of complicity with Islamists by blaming the Awami League, the main opposition party as being behind the attacks. The IOJ party is small, but is extremist. It is behind the anti-Ahmadiyya movement, which recently led to violence on December 23.
Now, according to the Bangladesh Daily Star, IOJ have decided to blame the government for withholding information on the arrested bombers from the Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), who are the main Islamist group behind the national bombing campaign.
IOJ claims that the information being withheld involves the Jamaat-e-Islami and is being done to protect them. Individuals such as Bangla Bhai, the leader of JMJB who is still free, had belonged to the youth wing of JeI, the Islami Chhatra Shibir.
A recently arrested leader of JMB in Chittagong, Aman Ullah, claimed that JMB had the backing of a few thousand members of Islami Chhatra Shibir, who would help JMB install a sharia state by force.
In a press release, Alhaj Michhabur Rahman Choudhury of the IOJ stated "The government is not letting the nation know about the activities of JMB cadres just to protect Jamaat". The press release was given after he made his claims at a rally of the youth front of IOJ in Dhaka, the capital.
He said a paper will be published depicting the recent bomb attacks and Jamaat's activities from 1947 to 71, in 1972, 1975 and from 1976 to 2006. The paper will include a list of central and district commanders of the anti-liberation force Al-Badar in 1971 and a description of their barbaric repression, political hypocrisy, the underground forces and all other hidden activities of Jamaat, he added.
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at January 3, 2006 11:31 PM
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