Saidi's UK Trip

Enemy of Bangladesh, alleged War Criminal, Sayeedi’s Anti-social activities
• During the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971, Sayeedi actively helped Pakistani military forces in killings, lootings, rape & arson.
• Sayeedi looted & took over properties belonging to freedom fighters and Bengalis who supported the independence of Bangladesh; he supplied lists of Bengali freedom fighters to the Pakistani military.
• Sayeedi supplied young Bengali girls, abducted from villages to the Pakistani military camps.
• In 1999 during his visit to the UK he offended the Bengali Muslim community by saying that 90% of Muslim women were involved in haram illicit relationships;
• In 2000 during one of his talks in Oldham his thugs attacked and beat up five Bengali elders.
• In Birmingham he said the Bengali identity was not needed.
• In 2000, in Oldham Sayeedi’s thugs (5 men) ambushed & attacked a newspaper representative at 3am in the morning.
• In 2000, at an all-party peaceful rally in Altab Ali Park, Banglatown London, Sayeedi’s thugs launched an attack and injured three, including a 65 years old elderly.

Anti Saidi demonstration in Whitechapel, East London

SAIDI INSULTS AND OFFENDS THE UK BENGALI COMMUNITY

In Sylhet, Bangladesh you would be a rickshawalla or a bus driver
90% of Muslim women are involved in haram illicit (sexual) relationships
Bengali girls wear see through clothes (saris) to show off their bodies

Fundamentalist Jamats MP Sayeedi in a UK tour in1999 managed to offend and upset almost everybody. During an Islamic Forum meeting in Qldham addressing the audience he said ‘What would you be doing if you were living in Bangladesh, Sylhet? At the most you would be driving a rickshaw, or be a bus driver’.

At the same meeting addressing the parents he further stated 90% of Muslim girls have boyfriends, the clothes they wear are so thin that you can see the colour of their skin.

In another meeting Sayeedi said, ‘you people are so illiterate .. you would break three pens to sign your name’.

Sayeedi’s comments are not only derogatory towards the UK Bengali Community, he has also undermined the profession of rickshawallas and bus drivers, who live on halal earnings. Furthermore, he has insulted the integrity of Muslim women and the Hindu Community in his speech.

This is the same Sayeedi, who in 1971 during the War of Bangladesh, in the name of Islam aided the occupation Pakistani armed forces in killings, maiming and torturing his fellow Muslim countrymen.

The genocide committed during the nine month long Liberation War of Bangladesh was beyond the atrocities carried out by the Nazis. Many people, regardless of their innocence were indiscriminately killed. The Pakistani military and their cronies; Bengali collaborators ie Razakars, murdered, raped, orphaned, widowed and looted millions of Bengalis. In the history of civilisation there is no record of such cruel, impious and obdurate acts of crime.

What is the identity of Bengali killer forces who were involved in murder, rape, looting and all other anti humane activities? To say they were assisting the Pakistani military is to simplify the issue. In 1971, these Razakars did not assist the Pakistani forces in a systematic manner for the sake of their livelihood. They were healthy, smart and often known as ‘gentlemen’ in society, Jamat formed into Al Badr Killer forces. Their prime role was to assault and kill the freedom loving people of Bangladesh. The aggressive assault on the Bengali nation of Pakistani forces and indeed the Bengali killers and collaborators were not only designed to stop the advance in independence but also a systematically planned attempt to annihilate and nullify the history and cultural ideals of Bangladesh.

Even in today’s independent Bangladesh, the same group of unruly monsters are involved in activities against the sovereignty of our country. They continue with their savagery, intimidation and vagabond way of life in a country they wish had not been born. They must be stopped. They must be lawfully tried very urgently similarly to the war criminals of Second World War, Bosnia, Rwanda and Kosovo.

It is unfortunate that in the United Kingdom a small number of our own oblivious Bengalis are supporting these anti-liberation evil forces. These people are damaging and corrupting a whole generation of our young people. The enemy within must be challenged. All brothers and sisters must organise and fight these razakars who were responsible for the deaths of our mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, husbands and wives and other next of kins; they should not be forgotten. The razakars/killers and collaborators of 1971 must be eliminated from the soil of Bangladesh. Wrong doers have no place in modern society.

Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) has explicitly stated that; ‘He who witnesses and evil act, let him change it with his hand. If he does not have the ability to change it with his hand, let him change it with his tongue and if he doesn’t have the ability to change it with his tongue then let him hate it with his heart’.

All party protest meeting at Toynbee Hall, Commercial St

An elderly victim of Shibir attack at Altab Ali Park, Banglatown

Sayeedi cadres arrested at Demo against the presence of alleged war criminal Sayeedi at the East London Mosque At an all-party peaceful protest rally on Sunday 18th June 2000 at 3pm at Altab Ali Park (adjacent to the East London Mosque) in Whitechapel the fundamentalists (including some local authority officers) from East London Mosque launched an attack and injured three including a 65 years old elderly person. The attack resulted in the arrest of six fundamentalists A 17 year old youth from London El was charged and appeared at Thames Magistrate Court. Abu Mumin, 30, of Forest Gate and Bow resident Mohammed Nuhan Hussain were due to appear at Thames Magistrates Court charged with affray. Abu Sufian of Forest Gate was due to be charged with actual bodily harm and two men aged 36 and 30 who were arrested for actual bodily harm were bailed to return to Lime house Police Station pending further enquires.

THE CRIMES COMMITTED BY SAYEEDI

During The Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971.

MAULANA DELWAR HOSSAIN SAYEEDI is currently a member of the fascist Jamaat. During 1971, Sayeedi took active part in the organisation of Razakar, Al-Badr and Al-Shams forces in his own area of Pirojpur in the south of the country, in order to assist the Pakistan army.

Sayeedi was not associated with any political party in 1971, but conducted his activities in his individual capacity as a ‘Mollah’. There are allegations that he actively helped the Pakistani forces in their campaign of killings, lootings, rape arson etc by forming local para-military forces. During the war, he along with four associ ates formed an organisation called ‘Fund of the Five’. The principal aim of the organisation was to loot and take over property of freedom fighters and Bengali Hindus. He used to sell these looted property and conduct a profitable business from the sales proceedings.

Allegations against Sayeedi were made by Mizan, a former freedom fighter. ‘Sayeedi gave direct assistance and encouragement to Pakistani forces during the Liberation War. He personally looted homes of Hindu families at Parer Hat area in Pirojpur, citing religious strictures as justifications of the repression on the Hindus. He broke into the shop of a Hindu trader named Madan and carried all the goods off home. Sayeedi set up shops by the ferry port near Parer Hat with goods looted from shops at Shaheb Bazar market. People of this area still have not forgotten Sayeedi’s treachery’. (Quoted in the monthly magazine Nipoon, August, 1987).

Abdur Razzak Khan, an advocate in Pirojpur, said that Sayeedi forcibly took over the home of a local Hindu, Bipod Shaha, and continued to live there during the whole period He said Sayeedi used to draw-up lists of suspected Bengali freedom fighters in the area and supply the names to the Pakistan army camped nearby. Khan also said that Sayeedi supplied young girls, abducted from nearby village homes, to the Pakistani camps. Sayeedi acted as guide to the Pakistani forces in their destructive and murderous raid on Parer Hat ferry port. According to Khan, Sayeedi also forced young men of the area to join the Al-Badr force, and any refusal usually led to the killing of the objector.

Similar allegations were brought against Sayeedi by Abu Haider, a member of the Supreme Court Bar and currently a leader of the central committee of the Ganotantri Party. He said that the brother and other relatives of one Himangshu Babu were killed with the direct assistance of Sayeedi. He also said that Ganopati Halder, an accomplished student known in the area for his academic acumen, was also killed by Sayeedi.

Haider said Sayeedi was involved in the killings of many social workers, intellectuals and student leaders of the area. Mid-ranking civil servants posted in the area, who were suspected of sympathising with the cause of Bangladesh, were also picked out to be murdered. One Bhagirathi, accused of supplying information to the freedom fighters by Sayeedi, was tied to the back of a motorcycle and dragged for five miles before being killed. A former elected village council Chairman of the area, M Alauddin Khan, said that mass killings of intellectuals and students took place in the area at the instigation, encouragement and direction of Sayeedi. He brought further accusations of lootings, particularly of property of local Hindus, against Sayeedi.

According to Beni Madhab Shaha, Sayeedi and his associates kidnapped and killed Abdul Aziz, a non commissioned officer in the para military East Pakistan Rifles (the force had joined the freedom war en masse as soon as Pakistan army operations began on Mar 25). Sayeedi and his men also kidnapped and killed others, including Krishna Kanta Shaha, Bani Kanta Sikdar, Tarani Kanta Sikdar, Beni Madhab Shaha.

Sayeedi and his cohorts carried out repression on the daughters of Han Sadhu and Bipod Shaha. Sayeedi, after looting the home of the Talukdars, a locally-influential Hindu land-owning family, kidnapped 25 women from the premises and supplied them to the Pakistan army camp.

There are allegations that Sayeedi was involved in the killing of sub- divisional Police Officer (SDPO) Faizur Rahman, father of Humayun Ahmed, a renowned writer and professor of Chemistry at the University of Dhaka. The allegations were brought by Sufia Haider and Haider Khan, daughter and son-in- law respectively of Humayun Ahmed. They said Pakistani troops killed Faizur Rahman with the assistance of Sayeedi and his associates, who then proceeded to loot the property of the author’s father.

(source: Report on the findings of the people’s inquiry commission on the activities of the war criminals and the collaborators)

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