بنجلاديش: وفاة قيادي إسلامي بارز

خبر من مصادر إنجليزية.

فقدت الحركة الإسلامية في "بنجلاديش" واحدًا من أبرز رموزها وهو الشيخ "غلام عزام" الزعيم السابق للجماعة الإسلامية؛ حيث توفِّي داخل السجن عن عمر 92 عامًا، وذلك إثر ذبحة صدرية أُصيب بها في معتقله، نُقِل على إثرها إلى مستشفى جامعة الشيخ مجيب الرحمن الطبية في العاصمة "دكا".

وقد وُلِد الفقيد - رحمه الله تعالى - عام 1922، وحمل ماجستير العلوم السياسية من جامعة "دكا"، وتولَّى إمارة الجمعية الإسلامية بين عامي 1971 و1978.

وقد تعرَّض لظلم بالغ؛ حيث حكمت عليه بنجلاديش بالسجن 90 عامًا بعد اتهامه في 61 قضية تتعلق بحرب الانفصال عن باكستان 1971؛ المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

يرجى الإشارة إلى المصدر عند نقل الخبر – شبكة الألوكة.

الخبر من مصدره الأصلي:

Professor Ghulam Azam, a key name in the history of the Islamic movement of Bangladesh and Muslim world, died earlier this week at the age of 91, leaving behind a huge vacuum in the Islamic movement in Bangladesh.

“Professor Ghulam Azam played a key role in the global Islamic movement in the world, I strongly believe that his demise dos not mean the death of the Islamic movement in Bangladesh,” Brigadier General (retired) Abdullahil Amaan Azmi, his son, told OnIslam.net.

"My father, Ghulam Azam, had to travel extensively throughout Bangladesh to preach and establish Islam in Bangladesh during his whole life,” he added.

Over the past 60 years, the late professor played a key role in Bangladesh and Pakistan politics.

He has been an active partner and ruler of Bengali language movement in 1950’s democratic movement in the 1960’s in Bangladesh, formerly known as East Pakistan, and Pakistan.

Promoting unity between Pakistan and Bangladesh, his role in the 1971 Bangladesh “independence” war has put him in the middle of a controversy of the claimed war crimes committed during this era.

However, he remained as a preacher leader of the Islamic movement in the world as well as Bangladesh.

Azam, whose imprisonment on war crimes charges set off violent protests last year, died on October 23 at the prison ward at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical Univrsity (BSMU) in Dhaka, a state run hospital, Bangladesh, as a war crime prisoner. Azam was buried in their family graveyard at Dhaka on October 25.

Azam, a former chief of the Jamaat-e-Islami Party, has been sentenced to 90 years in prison on 61 charges of war crimes during the 1971 Bangladesh war of independence from Pakistan.

The former East Pakistan declared independence from Islamabad in December 1971 at the end of a nine-month civil war in which the government says three million people were killed.