The evil that men do….
GOLAM Azam has passed into history. He was sentenced to a very long term jail sentence on several counts for genocide and crimes against humanity. He was spared by death the agony of long incarceration.
Golam Azam will remain a part of our history, and even after recollections of many events of our nation life become distant memories his role during the Liberation War will remain vivid in the nation's collective psyche. He will remain a part of our history in a negative way, much the same way as Quisling is of Norway's or Hitler of Germany's.
Golam Azam was instrumental in organising the dreaded Al-Badr and Al-Shams groups and colluded with the rapacious occupying forces in perpetrating one of the world's biggest genocides after Second World War with the purpose of stifling our victory. And even after the war he did everything to prevent the nascent state from gaining international recognition.
There are certain things that human beings may forgive and certain that they may forget and a few that they may both forget and forgive, but the misery and pain that Golam Azam helped to visit upon his fellow countrymen and women can neither be forgiven nor forgotten. To forgive and forget such a crime would be to desecrate the soil that has been hallowed by the sacred blood of our freedom fighters.
Now that Golam Azam has passed into the hands of God it is for Him to dispense His Justice. And his supporters would do well not to play politics with his death.
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