By ABM Sirajul Hossain The war criminals have been tried, but I have been asking this question for a long time… When will the trial of intellectual criminals begin? Yesterday was the death anniversary of a pro-Pakistani intellectual named AZM Enayetullah Khan, the founding editor of the English weekly Holiday and the daily New Age. On that day, various newspapers wrote laudatory tributes about him. Should we call this nepotism or intellectual disability?
Currently, a group of English-speaking self-proclaimed elite intellectuals in Bangladesh is attempting to surrender the country to militant Pakistanis once more, under the guise of democracy and free thought, by negotiating with the West blindly. In the same way, in the new Bangladesh of 1971-75, a group of English-speaking Chinese-Pakistani brokers created the backdrop for the assassination of Mujib. Enayetullah Khan and his newspaper, Holiday, were their mouthpieces.
Professor Ajay Roy, father of former BUET lecturer and US-based secular activist Avijit Roy, who was killed by Muslim militants hired by Pak-American intelligence in 2015, wrote at the time: “I do not know exactly what his (Enayetullah Khan’s) role was during the nine months of the Liberation War, but he never claimed to be a freedom fighter. Rather, at that time in 1971, when the entire nation was engaged in a war against the barbarity of the Pakistanis from within and without, he was very critical of the activities of the Awami League .”
He further wrote: “After the victory, when the Awami League formed the government under the leadership of Sheikh Mujib, Enayetullah and his Holiday were still heavily critical of the Awami League and Sheikh Mujib.”
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He also wrote: “After the brutal murder of Sheikh Mujib, Enayetullah and his Holiday openly showed their joy and even extended their hand of cooperation to the murderer Mushtaq and his sons Farooq, Rashid, and Pasha.”
Prof. Ajay Roy added: โThen Enayetullah wrote an article about Bangabandhu in the then editor Shahadat Chowdhuryโs Bichitra, where his true thoughts about India, Hindus, and the Awami League were revealed deep in his mind.โ
Thereafter, this cunning man became very close to the military ruler Ziaur Rahman and became a minister.
The intriguing thing is that he also liked Rabindra Sangeet. He used to sing the praises of Bengali culture. The stupid Bengalis considered this con artist very close to them.
The history of Enayetullah becoming a pro-China leftist is also interesting. After India was defeated in the China-India war, when Ayub Khan, as an agent of American geopolitics, made Pakistan a friend of China, China opened the door to cooperation with him, which resulted in the birth of a leftist child in the minds of many Pakistani elites. This military leftist alliance is the beginning of the Pakistani left in our country.
Prof. Ajay Roy wrote that he had a very hidden, cunning character, and he had an impossible cunning and manipulative capability. He also wrote about a “hidden communalism” in him.
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Not only Prof. Ajay Roy, but also many other people have written about this English-speaking reptile who is educated, smart, and a worshiper of humanity and freedom on the outside but is anti-casteist, elite, communal, and fundamentalist on the inside.
In reality, such personalities are people suffering from narcissistic mental disorders who consider themselves outstanding and despise others. They do not know what they want. They always want to associate themselves with something royal, big. The people of the soil despise and hate their own culture.
Therefore, they become enemies of the culture and its politics that grow from the soil and destroy it. This is primarily due to their inability to comprehend the abstract structure of the culture.
The sad thing is that despite all this suffering, we Bengalis do not recognise them. After gaining so much freedom, we lost it in five years and were ruled by the Pakistani mentality for twenty years. Today’s main newspapers in Bangladesh are in their hands. Daily Star, New Age, and Prothom Alo were founded with that continuity, with the same philosophy. Their domestic and international circle of friends is also the same. These newspapers regularly belittle the strength of this country’s soil at home and abroad in the hope of getting a little false admiration and praise from some elite or white-skinned person.
In the article “Intellectual Murder and Trial of the Murderers,” published in Janakantha on December 15, 2012, Sardar Sirajul Islam wrote: “The so-called leftist Enayetullah Khan retained a Pakistani citizen named Aslam Khan, an Urdu-speaking Pakistani citizen, as the executive editor of the Holiday newspaper, whose main job was to spy for Pakistan. He secretly went to Pakistan in April 1973. This was discussed in Parliament on 28/9/73.
โEnayetullah Khan wrote after independence against the announcement of the Brokers Act, ‘So are all 60 million of us brokers (who did not go to Indiaโauthor)?’ Through all these clever writings, he was involved in the trick of forming public opinion in order to protect the opponents of independence (Facts and Documents on Bangabandhu’s Assassinationโp. 67). Enayetullah Khan publicly said at the Dhaka Press Club, ‘It is not right to stop the politics of Jamaat, they should be left in the field.’
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โThis same man, who was imprisoned for spreading propaganda against the Bangabandhu government, later produced press matter for Bangabandhu’s Baksal program, which resulted in the banning of four newspapers and the rest. However, this man of leftist attire wrote after Bangabandhu’s martyrdom, ‘Bangladesh Wins Freedom’, and as Zia’s intellectual, published a report in the Holiday newspaper on January 27, 1977, placing the army’s highest-powered Revolutionary Council and the president above the parliament. In return, he received Zia’s ministry and later the award of Ershad’s ambassador (to China).”
The Daily Star editor Mahfuz Anam, mourning the death of Enayetullah, wrote on the front page of his own newspaper: “We have lost the best editor of our time.”
Enayetullah started slandering Sheikh Mujib at the beginning of independent Bangladesh with his half-truth and half-fabrication writings. As a result, a culture of Mujib condemnation was created in the country’s foreign neighbourhoods, educated circles, the army, and abroad. The murderous majors and anti-independence forces took advantage of this.
Mahfuz Anam is not alone, and it is not just in Bangladesh. War is going on all over the world. It is the war of uncultured con men with the culture of the soil. The culture of the soil is the own way of life and thoughts carried by a nation, and the uncultured people idealise the dominant culture to fulfil their personal interests and immature ego. This entire English-speaking group is destroying the culture of the soil by applying vengeful idealism all over the worldโthis is not an isolated incident.
People who are close to the soil will have mud on their bodies. There is no problem in writing about that. But if that writing kills the politics of the people of the land and creates an environment of foreign-based gun politics, then the writer will have to take responsibility for it. No matter how naive he may be in doing so.
Marceau, the hero of Albert Camus’ novel L’รtranger (“The Stranger”), shoots an unknown Arab man on the beach. The court asks him why he killed the Arab. In response, Marceau says that at that time he sees no other reason than the glare of sunlight on the knife in the Arab’s hand irritating his eyes.
These clever alienated editors also use the murder weapon of the pen without any real reason, out of slight personal anger, discomfort, allergy, or prejudice, resulting in the killing of millions of ordinary people, leaders like Sheikh Mujib, or the re-raping of a newly independent motherland like Bengal by an enemy mentality.
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