Source: Daily Star Op Ed
By Syed Badrul Ahsan
Let us talk about Razakars today. And we need to do that because of all the nonsense Chowdhury Mueen Uddin has lately been spewing about a country he betrayed back in 1971. The man, accused of having led some leading Bengali intellectuals to their death only days before the collapse of Pakistan in Bangladesh, now lives in Britain, safe in the knowledge that he might never be caught for his crimes, might never have to face trial in Bangladesh. Yes, of course, we in this country are doing all we can to have him brought in from his safe haven in London and grill him over his criminality in 1971. If we succeed in doing that, nothing could give us a greater degree of pleasure.
You might find it rather surprising to hear it from me, but the fact is that at one point in the late 1990s, early 1997 to be specific (and John Major was yet British prime minister), Mueen Uddin bumped into me or I ran into him. And that was at a gathering organised at London’s Regent Park mosque. Diplomats from a number of Muslim countries were there. Since the Bangladesh High Commissioner and I had both been invited to the programme by the mosque committee, it was decided that as minister press at our mission I would represent Bangladesh.
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