'*NCP finally joins with Jamaat ahead of polls*'
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[The NCP, or National Citizens Party, is a brand new political outfit that
roughly represents the forces that spearheaded the last year's "July
Revolution" ousting the authoritarian Hasina regime, (somewhat
unconvincingly) claiming to nevertheless carry the legacy of the '71
Liberation War.
The Jamaat-e-Islami -- more popularly known as Jamaat (or "community") --
is by far the most major Islamist organisation in Bangladesh.
It had outright opposed the historic Liberation War in 1971 that gave birth
to Bangladesh -- mightily aided by the direct military intervention by
neighbouring India led by Indira Gandhi -- out of the erstwhile East
Pakistan.
The birth of Bangladesh was an act of decisive assertion of the
linguistic-ethnic identity of the overwhelming majority of the people of
that land battling the oppressive rule of the "Islamic Republic of
Pakistan", headquartered in Islamabad, out to brutally suppress that
distinctive linguistic-ethnic identity.
Jamaat had operated as the active local collaborator of the genocidal
Pakistani Army along with the extremely infamous Razakars.
That the NCP has now openly joined hands with the (unbanned) Jamaat very
much accepting its leading role has hardly left any room for any confusion.
Those sections of the Left forces -- on both sides of the border -- that
had extended their uncritical and at times even euphoric support to the
("anti-fascist") "Revolution" completely ignoring its Islamist -- and
thereby utterly anti-democratic orientations -- have now shit on their
face!?
Or the fact that the NCP is facing some serious rumbling would provide a
figleaf?]
Peace Is Doable
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