March is the month of tragic memories and of launching the war for independence of the nation. But for a Jamaat-e-Islami leader, posing as a freedom fighter, March is the “month of victory”!
President of pro-Jamaat freedom fighters' organisation Jatiya Muktijoddha Parishad Moslem Uddin, who was introduced as a freedom fighter at a public function in the capital yesterday, stunned the audience with his knowledge of history of the Liberation War.
"This is the month of March, the month of our victory, we have earned our independence after the war in this month," Moslem Uddin started his speech by saying this at the function where Dhaka city unit Jamaat handed over financial assistance to some insolvent freedom fighters.
Back in 1971, the Parishad's parent organisation Jamaat had not only opposed liberation of the country but also actively participated in genocide and other war crimes collaborating with the Pakistani occupation forces, historical records and newspaper reports of that time say.