Delwar Hossain Saidi

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Highlights of Saidi's crimes

Saidi is the top jihadist preacher of the fascist Islamist party Jamat-e-Islam and the key player of Jamati ideological warfare waged by the deadly duo Gholam Azam and Nizami. Whereas Nizami hooks up the unenlightened but literate Muslims, Saidi casts his spell on the neo middle class created by two decades of military rules following the assassination of the nationalist leader Shaikh Mujib in 1975. Saidi is also immensely revered and followed by the technically skilled but philosophically unenlightened expatriate Bangladeshi Muslims. Every year Saidi raises tens of thousands of dollars from overseas by preaching the dollar-rich expatriate Bangladeshis. The Saidi audience overseas constitute Bangladeshi skilled migrants living in UK, USA, Canada and Australia. The key to Saidi's success in drawing so many expatriate Bangladeshi Muslims is his incorporation of the vulgar and the pornographic with the Islamic precepts and his scare campaign about  the hideous punishment in hell after death. All his populist speeches center on: hatred of the non-Muslims, hatred of women, reference to coarse sexual language used mainly in provincial Bangladeshi brothels, scare campaign projecting the fear of hideous torture after death by the angels assigned by a vengeful Arabian God-Allah.

Presently Saidi plays the role of the angel of death in Bangladesh and prophet of apocalypse overseas. Before the death of any prominent secular intellectual or any liberal politician Saidi would give a fatwa or pass Allah's vengeance on him. within a week the person would face a violent death. In case of secular intellectuals or artists the person's throat is slit with big knifes in the manner of slaughtering animals during the Eid-ul-Aja. The opposition political leaders would die in grenade or bomb attack. For example the violent assault on Professor Humayun Azad followed Saidi's passing a public fatwa on him in the parliament. Same thing happened in the assault on the (non-anglo) British high commissioner in Bangladesh. Saidi plays this role in collaboration with Nizami. Saidi gives the fatwa or passes Allah's vengeance on secular intellectuals and opposition political leaders and Nizami's goons implement the fatwa by killing the targets and carry out Allah's nemesis. In abroad Saidi prophesizes horrible punishment by the Allah's angels in hell to those not practicing Islam properly. Allah's mercy can only be achieved by donating him and Jamat and buying his cassettes for best Islamic practice.

Like his peer Nizami, Saidi was also involved in killing, looting, arson, extortion and confiscation during the liberation war. In both cases their victims were the Hindu Bengalis and people involved in or connected to the liberation war. In 1971 Saidi and his gang formed an espionage network in the Pirojpur area against the freedom fighters. He and his gang once captured a freedom fighter Mr. Abdul Aziz (an ex member of EPR, now BDR) on his secret visit home to see his first born in the dead of the night. Saidi handed Mr Aziz to the Pakistani army who tortured him to death. Saidi's dossier abounds in this type of murder, torture, extortions and confiscations. Under his appearance of an Islamic preacher, Saidi is nothing but an irremediable imposter, a traitor and a vile monster. Listed below are some of Saidi's crimes in 1971:

1. In 1971 Saidi was not associated with any political party, but conducted his activities in his individual capacity as a self proclaimed Islamic crusader. There are allegations that he actively helped the Pakistani forces in their campaign of killings, lootings, rape arson etc., by forming local paramilitary forces. During the war, he along with four associates, formed an organization called "Fund of the Five". The principal aim of the organization was to loot and take over property of freedom fighters and Bengali Hindus. He used to sell those looted property and conduct a profitable business from the sales proceedings.
 

2. During the liberation war, Saidi ravaged the shop of a Hindu Bengali named Madan and took all his properties away. Saidi opened a shop at Parer Hat steamer station with the merchandise looted from the nearby grocery shops owned by the Hindus. -Mizan, a former freedom fighter from Parer Hat Union Command. 
 

3. In 1971, Saidi forcibly took over the home of Bipin Saha, a local Hindu, and continued to live there during the whole period; carried out anti social activities; drawn up lists of suspected freedom fighters and their relatives and passed it to the Pakistani army camped nearby; supplied young girls, abducted from nearby villages, to Pakistani camps; to help the occupation army Saidi burnt down the ferry port of Parer Hat; he forced the local youths to join Al-Badr forces, any refusals usually led to the killing of the objector. -Advocate Abdur Razzaq Khan, Pirojpur
 

4. Saidi was behind the murder of one Himangsu Babu and his relatives. He also killed Ganapati Halder, an extraordinarily brilliant student of Pirojpur. Saidi was instrumental to the murder of many intellectuals and mid ranking government officers suspected of sympathizing with the cause of Bangladesh : a. Faijur Rahman, sub divisional police officer (SDPO) and father of writer and professor of Chemistry, Humayun Ahmed b. Abdur Razzaq, acting SDO d. Mizanur Rahman, former leader of the Students' League, e. Abdul Gaffar Miyan, head teacher f. Samshul Huq Faraji, social worker g. Atul Karmaker. 
 

5. At Saidi's instruction his gang torn one Bhagirathi into pieces, accused of supplying information to freedom fighters by Saidi, by tying him to the back of a motorbike and dragging him for five miles. Advocate Ali Hyder, Central Leader of Ganatantri Party, Pirojpur.
 

6. According to Beni Madhab Saha, a resident of Pirojpur, Saidi and his men kidnapped and killed :Krishna Kanta Saha, Bani Kanta Sikdar, Tarani Kanta Sikdar. Saidi and his cohorts carried out repression on the daughters of Hari Sadhu and Bipin Saha, she said. Saidi, after looting the home of the Talukdars, a Hindu landowning family, kidnapped 25 women and sent them to the Pakistan army camp. 

Verifiable list of people killed by Said in 1971:

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Bangla version of Saidi's war crime report