Kamaruzzaman buried in Sherpur

Executed war criminal Kamaruzzaman was buried at his village Kumri Mudipara in Sherpur early yesterday.

Amid tight security, the Al-Badr commander of 1971 was buried beside Kumri Bazitkhila Orphanage around 5:20am, as per his last wish. His body reached there around 4:15am yesterday.

Jamaat leader Mohammad Kamaruzzaman's elder brother Kafil Uddin received the body from local authorities and his namaj-e-janaza was held on the orphanage ground. His relatives and others took part in the funeral.

The local administration had deployed four platoons of Border Guard Bangladesh, four platoons of Rapid Action Battalion and riot police at key spots in Sherpur to avert any untoward incident.

Neither Kamaruzzaman's wife nor his children went to Kumri Mudipara to bury him.

Contacted, his eldest son Hasan Iqbal said they were ready to go and had even rented two microbuses but at the last moment they cancelled as some leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami asked them not to go citing security concerns.

Forty-four years after his nine-month-long atrocities across greater Mymensingh, Kamaruzzaman was finally hanged around 10:30pm Saturday at Dhaka Central Jail for the mass killing he had committed.

Meanwhile, Jamaat Saturday night called a nationwide dawn-to-dusk hartal for today (Monday) protesting what it said was the "planned killing" of its leader Kamaruzzaman.

Meanwhile, aggrieved by the execution of Kamaruzzaman, the activists of Jamaat and pro-Jamaat student body Islami Chhatra Shibir vandalised at least two buses and exploded two crude bombs at Sobhanbagh in Dhaka around noon yesterday, said a senior police official at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station.

In Chapainawabganj, police arrested alleged Jamaat supporters Mohammad Hanif, 35, and Selim, 28, in Court Bazar area of Shibganj upazila Saturday night in connection with hurling bombs at police.

Officer-in-Charge Moinul Islam of Shibganj Police Station said a police patrol team was attacked with three crude bombs around 11:30pm.