Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque on Saturday said the politics of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Chhatra Shibir will be banned soon and the properties of their leaders and activists will be confiscated on charge of committing war crimes in 1971.
“Jamaat-Shibir will be banned soon as the parties were involved in committing crimes against humanity during the War of Liberation in 1971,” he said while speaking at a discussion at the Jatiya Press Club in the capital.
Swadhinata Shikshak Parishad (SSP), a non-political teachers’ association, organized the discussion on “Terrorism Militancy-Bangladesh Resist” with SSP president Prof Dr Abdul Mannan Chowdhury in the chair.
Referring to destructive and vindictive activities of BNP-Jamaat, the minister said, “All the attacks including killing innocent people were only to deter the development process of the present government led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.”
“The patriotic people, in the meantime, have started raising protest against the heinous acts of the Jamaat-Shibir and their cohorts,” he added.
The minister also underscored the need for forming a separate tribunal to root out the militancy from the country.
SSP General Secretary Principal Shahjahan Alam Saju, Awami League central executive committee member Sujit Ray Nandi, Prof Sajedul Islam, MA Karim, Principal Shahadat Hossain Rana, Horchand Mandal Suman, Saidur Rahman Panna, Principal Samsul Alam and KM Obaidullah, among others, also spoke.
