Remebering Jahanara Imam

Remembering Jahanara Imam: the distraction of ‘dialogue’
NM Harun

It is a truism that any authoritarian intervention like the present emergency rule in countries like ours which have legacies of democratic struggle will eventually be replaced by an elected government. But of immediate interest now is to observe the behaviour of the political leaders and parties: how they carry on the urgent democratic struggle of the people during this difficult emergency period

The issue is the same but the perspectives are different. The Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee (Committee for the Elimination of the Killers and Collaborators of 1971) held a mock trial of the war criminals on March 26, 1992. Sixteen years later, on March 21, the Sector Commanders’ Forum held a national convention of the freedom-fighters to press home their demand for the trial of war criminals.............................