A Dangerous Connivance
It
is worrying that West Bengal’s political class remained tactical spectators to
the Kolkata rally organised by Muslim groups in support of Bangladeshi war
criminals
West Bengal looked to the Shahbag protests in Dhaka with hope. In 1971, a
massive relief and solidarity effort was undertaken in West Bengal for the
millions trying to escape a veritable genocide. The then leaders of the
Jamaat-e-Islami in East Bengal and its students wing organised murder and rape
squads in collaboration with the Pakistani forces. Their crimes included mass
murder, rape as a weapon of war, arson and forced conversions. Post-1975,
generals used them to cast an Islamic veneer of legitimacy over their illegal
capture of power. Their immunity lasted until the present Bangladesh government
restarted the legal proceedings in the War Crimes tribunal. The Shahbag
protests demanded maximum punishment for the guilty.
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