Suicide Attack
Govt urged to take action against Jamaat
Staff Correspondent
South Asian Peoples' Union against Fundamentalism and Communalism and Committee to Eliminate the Killers and Collaborators of 1971 at a joint statement yesterday condemned the suicide attack on courts in Gazipur and Chittagong on Tuesday. Terming the attack an alarming rise of fanatic force under the shadow of Jamaat-e Islami, the statement said though the newspapers had revealed that the Jamaat and Islami Oikya Jote had link with the 71 fanatic groups, the government is yet to take action against them. It said even the arrested militants also confessed their association with the Jamaat and recently some Members of the Parliament also divulged information about it. But the government is still indifferent to the issue, which encourages the militant force to continue their evil activities. The government's urge to resist fanatic groups will bring no result until it severs relation with the Jamaat, the statement said. It called upon the secular democratic forces to be united with the spirit of the Liberation War and face the fundamentalist forces as they threatened not to observe the National Victory Day this year. They urged all to take oath to root out the identified communal and fundamentalist forces from the country forever. The signatories to the statement include Prof Kabir Chowdhury, Barrister Shawkat Ali Khan, Women leader Hena Das, Prof Mustafa Nurul Islam, Justice KM Sobhan, Advocate Gaziul Haque, Poet Shamsur Rahman, Prof Azay Roy, Writer Syed Shamsul Haque, Lieutenant Colonel Abu Osman Chowdhury, Language Veteran Abul Hossain, and Dr Zafar Iqbal.
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