JMB men hanged, buried
Crowd started flocking in at Kornipara in Gabtali upazila of Bogra as the Rapid Action Battalion members took body of Siddikul Islam Bangla Bhai at his home in the morning.
Iftekhar Hasan Mamun's family members are lamenting as relatives and neighbours gathered to see what a fate Mamun chose for establishing Islam in an anti-Islamic way...
MamunBodies of Shayakh Abdur Rahman, Siddiqul Islam, popularly known as Bangla Bhai, Rahman's brother Ataur Rahman Sunny, son-in-law Abdul Awal, and other Jama'atul Mujahidin, Bangladesh cohorts -- Khaled Saifullah, Iftekhar Hasan Al Mamun were hanged midnight last.
Their bodies were also buried at their respective village homes. Siddikul Islam Bangla Bhai was laid down in Kornipara in Bogra.
Body of JMB Majlish-e Sura member Abdul Awal was handed over to his brother Abdul Mannan at around 5.30am at Kaliganj of Shingra upazila in Natore district.
He was son-in-law of JMB chief Shayakh Abdur Rahman. His namaj-e Janaja was held at Manamali Institute field in presence of several hundred people and was buried at his family graveyard.
Body of JMB’s suicide squad member Iftekhar Hasan Al Mamun was buried at Khojapur graveyard in Rajshahi city hurriedly hours before the Juma prayers following brewing up discontent among his family members.
A police source said, Police feared of untoward situation as Dasmari areas is dominated by Shibir cadres and there was a former training camp of JMB near Mamun’s house.
Mamun’s family members were announcing that his namaj-e janaja will be held after Jum’a prayers from the morning. But at around 10.15am, senior police officials rushed to their house suddenly and asked for arranging burial immediately.
At around 11am, Mamun’s namaj-e janaja was held amid presence of several hundred people and later buried at Khojapur graveyard.
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members took his body home at Dasmari Purbapara near Rajshahi University in the city under tight security and laying a seize around his house at around 6.30am.
Mamun’s father Lal Chand received the body. As Rab members left, a huge contingent of police including plain-clothed forces was deployed around the house.
Mamun’s mother Kohinur Begum and two brothers and two sisters broke in tears and expressing their grievances against the government and journalists.
Mamun’s father Lal Chand was angry at police and journalists visiting him. He demanded punishment of those who persuaded his son on ‘wrong path’.
Maximum area-dwellers said that they could not imagine how a good boy like Mamun became so ferocious militant that he killed judges to establish Islam.
Mamun along with other members of JMB suicide squad launched bomb attacks on Jhalakathi judges on November 14, 2005. In the blasts, Mamun lost his right leg and he was carrying live bombs wrapped with his body.
He was son-in-law of JMB chief Shayakh Abdur Rahman. His namaj-e Janaja was held at Manamali Institute field in presence of several hundred people and was buried at his family graveyard.
Body of JMB’s suicide squad member Iftekhar Hasan Al Mamun was buried at Khojapur graveyard in Rajshahi city hurriedly hours before the Juma prayers following brewing up discontent among his family members.
A police source said, Police feared of untoward situation as Dasmari areas is dominated by Shibir cadres and there was a former training camp of JMB near Mamun’s house.
Mamun’s family members were announcing that his namaj-e janaja will be held after Jum’a prayers from the morning. But at around 10.15am, senior police officials rushed to their house suddenly and asked for arranging burial immediately.
At around 11am, Mamun’s namaj-e janaja was held amid presence of several hundred people and later buried at Khojapur graveyard.
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members took his body home at Dasmari Purbapara near Rajshahi University in the city under tight security and laying a seize around his house at around 6.30am.
Mamun’s father Lal Chand received the body. As Rab members left, a huge contingent of police including plain-clothed forces was deployed around the house.
Mamun’s mother Kohinur Begum and two brothers and two sisters broke in tears and expressing their grievances against the government and journalists.
Mamun’s father Lal Chand was angry at police and journalists visiting him. He demanded punishment of those who persuaded his son on ‘wrong path’.
Maximum area-dwellers said that they could not imagine how a good boy like Mamun became so ferocious militant that he killed judges to establish Islam.
Mamun along with other members of JMB suicide squad launched bomb attacks on Jhalakathi judges on November 14, 2005. In the blasts, Mamun lost his right leg and he was carrying live bombs wrapped with his body.
Mamun's Family Needs Rehabilitation
Brothers and sisters of JMB’s suicide squad member Iftekhar Hasan Al Mamun who was hanged early yesterday could not see him before death for want of money, as well as they had to suspend their education over his links with militancy.
Local people at Mamun’s home village at Dasmari areas of Rajshahi city urged the chief advisor of caretaker government for their rehabilitation.
Mamun was eldest among his father Lal Chand’s three sons and two sisters.
Day labourer Lal Chand, his wife Kohinur Begum and 8-year daughter Husne Ara Anjana met Mamun at Kashimpur Jail on March 18 last.
Mamun’s brother Imamul Hasan Masum said, his parents had to sell out two of their domestic goats, which were only treasures of their family, at Tk 1800 for arrangement of spending of the visit.
“We can’t go to the jail (for meeting Mamun) as we have no money for the journey”.
Anjana was lamenting over his brother’s body and said, “He (Mamun) could not tell anything as he was crying always during short period of the meeting”.
Before Mamun was caught, his brothers – Hasan Ikhtiar Sagor, Hasan Yamin Biplob, and sisters – Tahmida Akhtar Chandana, and Husne Ara Anjana were reading in Brac Schools, Mirzapur School near their house or Darus Sunnah Dakhil Madrassah.
But, Chanda and Anjana stopped going schools as both teachers and their friends were blaming them for his brother’s link with militancy.
Sagor and Biplob were also expelled from Madrassah and school respectively not to go there anymore.
The family is now anxious of the future of youngest son 4-years old Wahid Oaliullah.
6 JMB men held, another still absconding
Local people at Mamun’s home village at Dasmari areas of Rajshahi city urged the chief advisor of caretaker government for their rehabilitation.
Mamun was eldest among his father Lal Chand’s three sons and two sisters.
Day labourer Lal Chand, his wife Kohinur Begum and 8-year daughter Husne Ara Anjana met Mamun at Kashimpur Jail on March 18 last.
Mamun’s brother Imamul Hasan Masum said, his parents had to sell out two of their domestic goats, which were only treasures of their family, at Tk 1800 for arrangement of spending of the visit.
“We can’t go to the jail (for meeting Mamun) as we have no money for the journey”.
Anjana was lamenting over his brother’s body and said, “He (Mamun) could not tell anything as he was crying always during short period of the meeting”.
Before Mamun was caught, his brothers – Hasan Ikhtiar Sagor, Hasan Yamin Biplob, and sisters – Tahmida Akhtar Chandana, and Husne Ara Anjana were reading in Brac Schools, Mirzapur School near their house or Darus Sunnah Dakhil Madrassah.
But, Chanda and Anjana stopped going schools as both teachers and their friends were blaming them for his brother’s link with militancy.
Sagor and Biplob were also expelled from Madrassah and school respectively not to go there anymore.
The family is now anxious of the future of youngest son 4-years old Wahid Oaliullah.
6 JMB men held, another still absconding
Shayekh Abdur Rahman, Siddiqul Islam, popularly known as Bangla Bhai, Rahman's brother Ataur Rahman Sunny, son-in-law Abdul Awal, and other Jama'atul Mujahidin, Bangladesh cohorts -- Khaled Saifullah, Iftekhar Hasan Al Mamun were hanged midnight last.
A court had awarded death sentences to seven extremists on May 29 last year for killing two judges in southern Jhalakathi district town in 2005.
Jhalakathi senior assistant judges Sohel Ahmed and Jagannath Pandey were killed in bomb attacks on November 14, 2005.
The Supreme Court upheld the judgment of the trial court. The militants appealed to the president on January 27 seeking mercy.
Although the militants said they would not seek justice from a man-made court, they all appealed to the Supreme Court against the sentence. They had admitted that their outlawed organisation, the Jamatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), wanted to achieve the rule of Allah in predominantly Muslim Bangladesh and had carried out attacks on open air theatres, cinemas, NGOs, shrines and two prominent university teachers.
JMB chief Shayekh Abdur Rahman, who was arrested from his hideout in north-eastern Sylhet on March 2, 2005, also confessed that he was behind all such attacks. Shayekh Rahman, who had founded JMB, an Islamist extremist outfit, after he developed contacts with West Asian militant organisations, is also blamed for masterminding a wave of bombings in the country since August 2005.
Unidentified assailants had critically injured Humayun Azad, a prominent liberal and secular writer and a Dhaka University teacher, with butcher’s knife on February 27, 2004. Azad was found dead at a Munich apartment in Germany on August 12 same year. JMB was blamed for killing Rajshahi University professor Mohammad Yunus.
Bangla Bhai, operations commander of the banned Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh. a JMB ally, was arrested in a remote village last year. He along with JMB troops were blamed for operations in Rajshahi region in 2004 that killed 25 people and mimed several hundred.
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A court had awarded death sentences to seven extremists on May 29 last year for killing two judges in southern Jhalakathi district town in 2005.
Jhalakathi senior assistant judges Sohel Ahmed and Jagannath Pandey were killed in bomb attacks on November 14, 2005.
The Supreme Court upheld the judgment of the trial court. The militants appealed to the president on January 27 seeking mercy.
Although the militants said they would not seek justice from a man-made court, they all appealed to the Supreme Court against the sentence. They had admitted that their outlawed organisation, the Jamatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), wanted to achieve the rule of Allah in predominantly Muslim Bangladesh and had carried out attacks on open air theatres, cinemas, NGOs, shrines and two prominent university teachers.
JMB chief Shayekh Abdur Rahman, who was arrested from his hideout in north-eastern Sylhet on March 2, 2005, also confessed that he was behind all such attacks. Shayekh Rahman, who had founded JMB, an Islamist extremist outfit, after he developed contacts with West Asian militant organisations, is also blamed for masterminding a wave of bombings in the country since August 2005.
Unidentified assailants had critically injured Humayun Azad, a prominent liberal and secular writer and a Dhaka University teacher, with butcher’s knife on February 27, 2004. Azad was found dead at a Munich apartment in Germany on August 12 same year. JMB was blamed for killing Rajshahi University professor Mohammad Yunus.
Bangla Bhai, operations commander of the banned Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh. a JMB ally, was arrested in a remote village last year. He along with JMB troops were blamed for operations in Rajshahi region in 2004 that killed 25 people and mimed several hundred.
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