It was a brazen display of arrogance that reeks of the Yunus regime’s Jamaat-orchestrated mobocracy: acquitted Al-Badr butcher ATM Azharul Islam threatened to unleash lawsuits on anyone daring to expose his blood-soaked role in the 1971 Liberation War.
This unrepentant collaborator, once sentenced to hang for mass murder, rape, and genocide, now struts as Jamaat-e-Islami’s Nayeb-e-Ameer, courtesy of a regime that has systematically whitewashed Pakistan’s genocidal puppets. As elections loom, Azhar’s vile warnings underscore how the Yunus junta—propped up by Islamist thugs and street mobs—has fostered a culture of impunity, brazenly revising Bangladesh’s sacred history to empower the very monsters who sought to drown our independence in Bengali blood.
Azhar, the notorious Rangpur Al-Badr commander who orchestrated the slaughter of over 1,200 innocents, the rape of women confined in hellish camps, and the abduction and murder of intellectuals, now threatens legal terror on critics.
Speaking at a rabble-rousing election rally in Taraganj Upazila’s Tetultala High School grounds on January 31, the Jamaat candidate for Rangpur-2 snarled: “If anyone raises allegations against me regarding 1971 or speaks about it, I will file cases against them. I was acquitted of the crimes against humanity case. Now, if they say such things, I won’t spare them. I’ll file cases.”
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This video, which exploded across Facebook on February 5, has ignited fury—not just for Azhar’s thuggish intimidation but for how it epitomises the Yunus regime’s descent into mobocracy. Freed in May 2025 after a kangaroo court acquittal engineered by a judiciary captured by Islamist sympathisers, Azhar wasted no time clawing back power. By November 2025, he was sworn in as Jamaat’s deputy chief, a slap in the face to the three million martyrs and 200,000 violated women of 1971.
His original convictions? Death for gunning down 15 unarmed civilians in Dhap Para on April 16, massacring over 1,200 at Jharuarbeel on April 17, and abducting and murdering four Carmichael College teachers on April 30. Plus 30 years for raping women at Rangpur Town Hall and torturing detainees. These weren’t fabrications—they were proven horrors upheld by courts until the Yunus mob overran justice.
Under the so-called “interim” Yunus government—a thinly veiled Jamaat front propped up by August 2024’s violent street upheavals—war criminals like Azhar aren’t just free; they’re empowered to bully the nation. This is mobocracy at its ugliest: rule by the rabid crowds that toppled Sheikh Hasina, now institutionalised to protect 1971’s villains.
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Azhar’s threats aren’t idle; they’re backed by a regime that has dismantled the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT-BD), appointed Jamaat-friendly prosecutors, and celebrated acquittals as “triumphs of the July Revolution.”
Law Adviser Asif Nazrul’s glee over Azhar’s release? A grotesque betrayal. The Supreme Court’s May 27, 2025, verdict, under a post-Hasina chief justice, didn’t just acquit—it declared prior trials a “gross miscarriage,” effectively gaslighting survivors and rewriting history to portray Al-Badr death squads as misunderstood patriots. Yunus’s silence? Complicity. No condemnation, no probe—just impunity for the collaborators who aided Pakistan’s rape and murder machine.
Azhar’s rally rants further expose this revisionism: mocking BNP leaders in exile as “shameless liars” while claiming Jamaat as the “true force for independence.” Independence? From what—the Bengali genocide he helped perpetrate? His sneers at Hasina for fleeing echo the regime’s vendetta against secular forces, all while Jamaat’s goons roam free, intimidating voters and journalists.
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Erasing 1971
This isn’t rehabilitation—it’s a full-scale assault on 1971’s legacy. The Yunus-Jamaat axis is revising history to suit their theocratic fantasies, portraying war criminals as victims of “persecution” while real victims’ graves are desecrated by forgotten justice. Azhar’s elevation from death row to deputy chief in six months? A timeline of shame: Arrested in 2012, sentenced in 2014, upheld in 2019, then magically “innocent” post-Hasina.
Bangladesh fought nine months of hell, sacrificing millions, to birth a secular nation—not to watch Al-Badr commanders threaten lawsuits from podiums garlanded by extremists. Yunus’s regime, born of mob violence, now nurtures a culture where butchers dictate terms, history is auctioned to Islamists, and impunity reigns supreme.
The people won’t forget. As streets simmer with outrage, calls mount to bar Jamaat from polls and reinstate true justice. Azhar may threaten suits today, but tomorrow, the noose of history will tighten—not through vengeance but through the unyielding truth of 1971. This regime’s mobocracy must fall, or Bangladesh risks becoming the Islamic caliphate its enemies always dreamed of.
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