DHAKA, Sept 5, 2024 (BSS) - Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami today demanded of the government free the country and the nation from the culture of impunity by identifying the perpetrators of genocide through holding international investigations and ensuring exemplary punishment to the mass murderers.

"In the last 15 and half years of misrule of the previous government, we were not allowed to go on the streets, even couldn't launch protest against its unspeakable oppression and torture . . . the deposed government committed blatant genocide due to its lust for power," Jamaat Amir Dr Shafiqur Rahman told party's Shura committee meeting at Al-Falah Auditorium in Moghbazar here today.

He added: "Lakhs of leaders and workers belonging to the opposition parties, including Jamaat, have been detained in jail and harassed with thousands of false cases. While countless people have gone missing and our workers have been killed in crossfire dramas as well."

Referring to the brutality of the erstwhile Sheikh Hasina's government, Dr. Shafiqur said many members of the martyr's family have gone into missing. They described their untold sufferings there as they were kept hidden in "Aynaghar" a solitary room, where sunlight could not penetrate.

Besides, during the movement, Jamaat Amir said, the government has killed its own citizens by firing not only on the ground but also from the air.

"Such this genocide carried out in an Independent country is not acceptable in any way. We demand the current government to arrest the murderers and bring them to justice," he added.

The Shura session of the Jamaat Central Majlis also urged the interim government to give the martyrs who were killed in the anti-discrimination students-public movement as the status of national heroes.
 
Jamaat Amir also directed its partymen so that no injustice is done to anyone while demanding trial of the attackers or no innocent person gets harassed anyway.

The meeting also demanded of the interim government to withdraw all false cases and bring back the smuggled money and release their leader ATM Azharul Islam detained in jail.

It also called upon the government to complete the necessary reforms of all constitutional institutions including democratic institutions within a reasonable period of time, and to hold a free, fair and credible election as soon as possible to hand over power to the elected representatives.

 Jamaat Secretary General and former MP Professor Mia Golam Porwar, Nayeb-e-Amir and former MP Professor Mujibur Rahman, Dr. Syed Abdullah Md. Taher and Maulana ANM Shamsul Islam, among others, were present there.