History is full of ironies.
Benazir: The name that has become the meaning of the reverse history and security question of neo-Muslims in Bangladesh?
There is a word in Arabic, Benazir. Meaning is unprecedented, incomparable, incomparable. The word is usually used for someone great, someone ahead of his time, whose achievements are remembered for ages. But history sometimes plays strange ironies. Some people reverse the meaning of their name Prove the truth.
Former Inspector General of Police of Bangladesh Benazir Ahmed is one of those rare people who has become truly unprecedented in cruelty, brutality, corruption, abuse of power and trampling on the rights of innocent people.
Never in the long history of this country has there been a police chief who has been so deeply involved in so many crimes at the same time.
There are many people in the world who live well for lack of opportunities, and Get bad if you get the chance. Power is like a test. A man who is righteous from within, becomes more enlightened when he gets power. And those who have the seeds of greed and pride hidden in them, when they get power, those seeds become sweet and the people around them wither and die in its shadow. Looking at Benazir Ahmed's life from this perspective, many things become clear.
He was born in Tungipara, Gopalganj, on the first day of October 1963. thisThe name Tungipara has been mentioned many times in the political history of Bangladesh. This is the same soil where Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was born.
Another birth took place on that ground, which birth would later become a nightmare in the lives of the common people of this country, perhaps no one thought that day. Born in a noble Muslim family, the boy grew up in Banedi manners.
Studied English in Dhaka University, Shakespeare and Wordsworth Swallowed poetic language. The course of events of the next three decades has given the answer to the question of how much of the humanity, the longing for justice, which is deep in English literature, he retained in himself.
Joined Police in 1988 after clearing BCS exam. That's the beginning. Since then, the process of promotion began, it seems that an invisible hand of power began to lift him up step by step.
Dhaka Metropolitan PoliceCommissioner, Director General of RAB, and finally the country's highest police post, the IGP. Behind each post was the reward of political loyalty and unconditional loyalty to the ruling elite.
In this long journey, he not only got a position, but got unlimited power, and he used that power in a way that the common people of this country will never forget.
To talk about that night in Shapla Chatwar, we have to go back a little. 2013 Bangladesh was a hot Bangladesh. On the one hand, the trial of the war crimes tribunal, on the other hand, the intense anger among the ordinary religious people about the anti-Islamic writings of the bloggers.
Hefazat Islam represented that anger and entered the field. Millions of people from all over the country started coming to Dhaka. Madrasah students, mosque imams, ordinary farmers, working people, all came with one demand, to protect the honor of their religion.have to do They were innocent, unarmed and peaceful.
When thousands of people gathered at Shapla Chattar in Motijheel on the evening of May 5, no one thought that this night could be the last night of their lives. When the night fell, the electricity first went out. Shapla Chattar and the surrounding areas were plunged into darkness.
It began under the cover of darkness which Bangladesh has not seen since March 25, 1971. Lathicharge, tearshells, rubber bulletsAnd in many other ways the whole burden of state power was brought down upon the sleeping, helpless people.
As the sun rose in the morning, the surroundings of Shapla Square were silent. There was nothing but some bloodstains, torn clothes, shoes and memories of the lost people.
The exact number of people who died that night is still unknown. Where did the bodies of the 58 people who were mentioned in the media go, how were they moved, where?Given the soil, the answer to that question has not yet been found.
The families who sent their son away saying he would return in the morning, are still waiting today. No number, no statistic can bear that burden of waiting.
Benazir Ahmed was the Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police that night. According to the investigators, he was not only in charge but also the active director of this operation.
Years have passed, but the responsibility of that night He did not leave. He is now accused of crimes against humanity in the International Criminal Tribunal.
Benazir Ahmed's name is also written in the black pages of history along with the names of ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and former Home Minister Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir.
Another terrible chapter was added to his life during his tenure as Director General of RAB. The RAB force was created to fight crime, terroristst deal with.
But gradually this force became a tool to suppress political opponents. People are slowly learning about the secret detention center known as Ayanaghar, where people were kept in the dark day after day.
People imprisoned in small cells surrounded by mirrors could not see anything but their own faces. The mental torture was described by those who returned alive, and those who Only their families know that they did not return.
Benazir Ahmed is an accused in another case in the International Criminal Tribunal, which has raised allegations of picking up people of opposing views in the TFI cell. He is in the list of 17 accused.
The force is responsible for the disappearance of many people who left their homes in the early hours of the morning and never returned, whose families stood at the door and stared at the road for years.Investigators have confirmed that there is.
It does not end here. Some events also happened during his time which are still debated. After Benazir Ahmed's arrest, a man named Nehar Halder admitted on Facebook that with the help of Benazir Ahmed, he had managed to bring back more than two hundred girls after religious conversion.
This admission raises a serious question. Those who respond to the call of their own conscience voluntarily Islam accepted, were they forcibly taken back? Does an adult not have the right to choose his religion? If the maximum police power of the state is used in this work, then it falls under the definition of human rights?
When people in power go beyond the law, many petty crimes become normal for them. Doctor of Business from Dhaka University in 2019,Benazir Ahmed took a degree in administration. The word doctor is added before the name.
But later investigation revealed that he did not qualify for the course which required minimum fifty percent marks for admission. By breaking the rules, relaxing the conditions, influencing the university, he was admitted and awarded the degree.
After the fall of power, the university authorities suspended the degree. To gain knowledge,When Peethathan bows to the pressure of power, it is not only a corruption of a man but also a document of moral decay of an institution.
The passport incident is even more surprising. In 2016, when he was the Director General of RAB, he disguised his government identity and went to get a passport as a normal private employee.
A letter went from RAB headquarters to the passport office objecting and within twenty-four hours he went to the house and took photographs and fingerprints.He came with a passport. Those who have gone through the experience know how long a common citizen has to stand in line, how much running to get a passport.
And one of the most powerful law enforcers of the country broke the law and made passports himself and got them with such speed that a normal citizen could not even imagine.
In 2021, the United States charged him with human rights violations Banned. This is a historic event, as there has never been a US sanction against a police chief in Bangladesh.
But he is still adamant, because behind the umbrella of the government. He went to New York to attend the UN conference in 2022, but was not allowed to set foot anywhere else on US soil, due to sanctions.
It was the first sign of his impending downfall, though he did not realize it or realize it at the timedidn't care
When the Anti-Corruption Commission started taking stock of his wealth, what came out shocked the nation. Four cases were registered against Benazir Ahmed, his wife Zeeshan Mirza and two daughters Farheen and Tahseen.
A total of 74 crore illegal assets have been identified. 9 crores in his own name, 31 crores in the name of wife and another crores in the name of daughters. Four luxury flats, thirty-three banks in Gulshan Accounts and shares of nineteen institutions.
But what stands out more than the numbers, is the list of clothes found in a flat:
622 Ladies Tops,
496 salwar kameez,
494 sarees,
355 Ladies Pants,
347 Veils,
250 sets of threepieces,
722 Men's Tshirts,
266 pants,
224 Punjabi,
88 pairs of sandals,
34 sunglasses,
75 vanity bags,
65 blouses,
58 Night Dresses
16 lehengas.
and various Brand perfume. This is just a flat calculation.
In a country where crores of people are not guaranteed two meals a day, this collection of clothes by the family of a government official is not only an indication of greed, it is a document of moral bankruptcy.
A poor man's reservoir was forcibly occupied in Rupganj of Narayanganj. The reservoir was filled with sand. Then his daughter bought 24 khata land at a nominal price Duplex palace.
Where did that poor man go, who heard his cry, where was his judgment? And in the vast area of Gopalganj and Madaripur, the minority Hindu families were intimidated and pressured to buy land and build Savanna Eco Resort and Natural Park on 600 bigha. The land that was once a common man's house is now a luxury park.
On the cry of the common people and the pain of being destitute The signage of the luxury resort that was standing was changed in June 2024 as per the court order. But the people who were evicted, have they regained everything they lost?
In the last days of power, the smart people sensed that the air was changing. When the heat of the ACC investigation approached in May 2024, Benazir Ahmed did not delay. After withdrawing 11 crore 34 lakh from the bank, the family left the country in the dark of night.
That the man who was once the supreme police chief of this country, whose one order would have made thousands of policemen move, that man is Ferrari from his own country. Exactly three months later on 5 August 2024, that mighty government fell.
As soon as the umbrella of power was removed from his head, he became a Ferrari suspect. An arrest warrant was issued from the court. Interpol has issued a red notice.
12 June 2026. In the glittering lights of Dubai, the city of luxury,He was arrested by the UAE police with the help of Interpol. The Home Minister of Bangladesh said that he will be brought back to the country very soon. When that return happens after a long hiatus, there won't be a red carpet for it.
There will be a mountain of cases of crimes against humanity, corruption, land grabbing, money laundering and passport fraud. Never before in the history of Bangladesh have so many complaints against a police chiefdidn't come
Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, "Whoever uses the power given by Allah for his own benefit and oppresses the weak people, he will have to bear the burden of that oppression on the Day of Resurrection." The darkness of oppression dawns one day. That dawn sometimes comes early, sometimes late. But it comes.
When a police chief becomes a law eater instead of a law keeper, thenThe people's confidence in the entire state system has gone down. The man who trusts the police and goes to the police station, when he sees that the police chief is a criminal, where will he go? Who will seek justice? The pain of not being able to answer this question has been borne by the common people of Bangladesh for years.
The people who came to pray at Shapla Square and never returned home, whose families are still crying, the neo-Muslim young man or woman for his faith.Perhaps taken away by force, the poor man whose pond has filled up, the minority family who has given up land in fear, their every tear demands justice from a civilized state.
If that judgment is not in this world, then Allah's court is there. No political umbrella is useful in that court, no RAB force is useful, no IGP can protect the post.
Benazir means Unprecedented. He has become truly unprecedented. But not in the way he wanted. Not the way history remembers its powerful. History will remember him among the tears of those whose tears were not witnessed, but whose tears did not cease.
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