Dear members and well-wishers, Assalamu Alaikum. As I am receiving lot of calls from worried friends and well-wishers about the case filed against me along with others, I can only say about myself that every single statement made by the complainant against me is false and without any basis.I have left everything to Allah .My lawyers are taking normal steps in my matter,
Please see the news item below and see the role of Daily Star.This is the paper
which made a big news of the talk show of a channel and made a provocative
headline.They also published two articles against me by Syed Muhammad Ibrahim
and Syed Badrul Ahsan.My polite rejinders have not been published though I
reminded the editor by drawing his attention by name.I give below my rejoinder
of the article of Mr.Ibrahim.What kind of fairness is this?
The un-proved (in any court of law )insinuations made in the news item of the
daily of its own volition shows the daily's bias.
Shah Abdul Hannan
----- Original Message -----
From: S A Hannan
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 7:54 PM
Subject: Fw: On the article of Syed Muhammad Ibrahim
Attention Mahfuz Anam sb
Dear sir,
Assalamu alaikum.Would you not publish this letter though 9 days have passed
?Kindly let me know .
Shah abdul Hannan
----- Original Message -----
From: S A Hannan
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 9:07 AM
Subject: On the article of Syed Muhammad Ibrahim
To the Editor,
The Daily Star, Dhaka.
Dear Mr Editor,
Assalamu Alaikum. I have been dismayed by the article of Syed
Muhammad Ibrahim, "Well Said Your Honour " published in your esteemed daily on
29.10.07. There is no truth in his statement quote At about 9.30 p.m. on
Friday, October 26, in a television talk show on Ekushey TV titled Ekushey
Shomoy, Mr. Shah Abdul Hannan a former secretary to the government of
Bangladesh said that there was no Liberation War of Bangladesh, instead what
happened in 1971 was civil war in Pakistan unquote
I have never said that 1971 was not Mukti Juddho ( war of
liberation) instead it was a civil war.This is a serious manipulqation of my
statement in the talk show where I did not go on my own liking. I was invited
there.I was supposed to join in a discussion on current affairs.Insted I was
asked questions about mostly on 1971 events.In a live talk show I had no option
except answering questions asked from me from the anchor person, Mr Shariar
Kabir and three journalists.I clearly said that in 1971 there was a civil war
and and a MuktiJuddho ( please refer your own report on the first page on
28.10.07).In view of that the aricle of Syed Muhammad Ibrahim stands on false
leg and I need not discuss other issues.
However i am replying to his direct question he posed to me
. quote May I ask a question to xxxxxx and Mr. Shah Abdul Hannan: "Pakistan
government in 1971 used to say that the situation in East Pakistan in 1971 was
an internal law and order problem. In 2007 Mr. Shah Abdul Hannan says it was a
civil war. Question: Was Bangladesh born because of political struggle alone or
because of the recommendations of politicians only?"Unquote Any body may see my
stance from the website of Ekushey television or report of the daily star or
from a c.d. obtained from the Ekushe.I must however add as a student of
political science that even though 26 th March was the date of declaration of
independence of Bangladesh, the political sovereignty of Bangladesh over the
territory was established on 16th December, 1971with all its legal consequences
in domestic and international law..
Respected editor, please publish it without delay.
Shah Abdul Hannan
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Committed to PEOPLE'S RIGHT TO KNOW
Thursday, December 6, 2007 09:16 AM GMT+06:00
Front Page
Sedition case against Mojaheed, Quader Mollah, Shah
Hannan
Court Correspondent
A sedition case was filed with a Dhaka court yesterday
against Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed,
Assistant Secretary General Abdul Quader Mollah and ex-chairman of Islami Bank
Shah Md Abdul Hannan.
The court ordered Tejgaon Police Station to register it
as a regular case filed against the three for their anti-liberation activities.
In the petition case filed with the Chief Metropolitan
Magistrate's Court, petitioner Mohammad Fazlur Rahman also appealed to the
court to issue arrest warrant against the three accused.
After hearing the petition, Metropolitan Magistrate
Mohammad Emran Hossain Chowdhury passed the order to Tejgaon police and
directed the officer-in-charge (OC) to submit a report after proper
investigation into the matter.
The accused worked against the Liberation War and
carried out massacres by forming Al Badr, Al Shams and Razakar forces in 1971.
Thus they committed sedition, the case statement said.
Moreover, the accused recently started making fresh
derogatory remarks on the Liberation War by terming it a civil war, and denying
the existence of anti-liberation forces.
"I have been compelled to take refuge of the law since
the state, Ministry of Liberation War Affairs, home ministry and freedom
fighters' organisations have not taken any legal action against the war
criminals," said complainant Fazlur Rahman, a freedom fighter of Sector-2.
The case statement mentioned that Mojaheed, who was the
social welfare minister of the BNP-Jamaat-led four-party coalition government,
on October 25 denied his party's anti-liberation role, and claimed that
anti-liberation forces never existed in the country. On the next day, Hannan,
also a former chairman of the National Board Revenue, in a private satellite
television talk show termed the Liberation War a 'civil war' and made
derogatory remarks on it.
Quader Mollah at a discussion on October 31 said the
freedom fighters joined the Liberation War being allured by beautiful Indian
women, and for grabbing property of the Hindus in the country. Three criminal
cases including one for sedition were filed against Quader with a Madaripur
court for his derogative remarks.
By denying the Liberation War, they have committed
sedition, the complaint said. "We will have to bear the shame forever if these
criminals are not punished for their heinous crimes," argued Fazlur, a resident
of south Kamerkanda in Keraniganj.
He filed the case under sections 121-A and 123 - A of
Bangladesh Penal Code. The sections deal with the sedition charges and
punishment for committing such offences.
Section 121-A says whoever within or without Bangladesh
conspires to commit any of the offences to deprive Bangladesh of the
sovereignty of her territories or any part thereof, or conspires to overawe by
means of criminal force or the show of criminal force, the government, shall be
punished with imprisonment for life or any shorter term.
In the case, the complaint made the editor and news
editor of the Prothom Alo and editor the Bhorer Kagoj as witnesses.
When contacted last night, Tejgaon police said they are
yet to get copy of the sedition case filed with court.
According to newspaper reports, speeches and statements
of those accused of war crimes, and findings of different probe bodies
including the People's Enquiry Commission, Mojaheed, who was president of the
then East Pakistan Islami Chhatra Sangha and chief of the infamous Al Badr
Bahini back in 1971, helped the occupation Pakistan army commit massacre, loot
and rape.
Only two days before the Liberation War ended, he led
the killings of renowned academics, litterateurs, doctors, engineers,
journalists and other eminent personalities to leave the nation intellectually
crippled.
Quader Molla was known as a 'butcher' to Bangalees in
Mirpur of Dhaka in 1971. Mirpur at the time was mainly populated by
non-Bangalee Muslim migrants from India, many of whom actively collaborated
with the occupation army.
One of the largest mass graves of people butchered by
Pakistani troops and their lackeys was discovered in Shialbari area of Mirpur
after the independence. Quader was behind the killing of thousands of Bangalees
in Shialbari and Rupnagar areas of Mirpur in 1971. He had started killing
people even before the occupation army's mass killing, local people said.
Jamaat was constitutionally banned for its
anti-liberation activities. But the ban was lifted in 1976.
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