Chowdhury Mueenuddin’s alleged role in Bangladesh Genocide: In March 1971, Chowdhury Mueenuddin, a journalist at the Daily Purbodesh, was an active member of the Islami Chaatra Sangha (ICS) – the student wing of the Jammat-e-Islami which actively opposed Bangladesh liberation war and aided the Pakistani military. In August 1971, the Jamaat-e-Islami, according to its own newspaper the Daily Sangram, set up the Al-Badr Squad comprising members of the ICS to violently combat the forces supporting Bangladesh’s liberation. Mueenuddin became a member of the Al-Badr. In 1995, in a Channel 4 documentary(6), researchers presented a series of evidence and eyewitnesses that directly implicated Chowdhury Mueenuddin as the leader of the gang in at least two disappearances and killings, and one attempted disappearance. Abduction and disappearance of Mofazzal Haider Chaudhury, Dhaka University Professor of Bengali. A family member present at the scene states: “they stormed into the house brandishing guns and with gamchas over their faces. While being taken away, [Prof Chaudhury] pulled down the gamcha from one of the men’s faces, I recognised him immediately. It was Mueenuddin; I knew him because he used to come to our house to study.” Abduction and disappearance of Serajuddin Hossain, Journalist Serajuddin Hossain’s wife identified Chowdhury Mueenuddin as one of the men who took her husband. Attempted Abduction of Ataus Samad, BBC Journalist It is known that Mueenuddin was involved in attempting to abduct BBC journalist Ataus Samad. Two tenants were woken up by a gang of men and saw the faces of the leader. After independence, when a photograph of Mueenuddin’s face was published they both recognised him as the man leading the abductions, that night. Case Filed in Bangladesh with subsequent case statements by the intelligence agency:Farida Banu, younger sister of Professor Giasuddin Ahmed, filed a case in this connection with Ramna Police Station in Bangladesh on September 24, 1997 against two Al-Badr cadres–Chowdhury Mueenuddin and Ashrafuzzaman–for killing her brother on December 14 in 1971, resulting in a police investigation by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID). The investigation report named Mueenuddin as one of the prime accused in relation to abduction and disappearance of eight Dhaka University professors on that night including Prof Ahmed. According to the case statement, on 14 December 1971, Al-Badr members Mueenuddin and Ashrafuzzaman picked up Giasuddin Ahmed from Muhsin Hall premises, blindfolded him and whisked him in a microbus to an undisclosed location. He never came back.
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