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| | #REDIRECT [[AKM Mozammel Haque (politician)]] |
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| | name = AKM Mozammel Haque
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| | image = AKM Mozammel Haque.jpeg
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| | office = [[Ministry of Liberation War Affairs (Bangladesh)|Minister for Liberation War Affairs]]
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| | term_start = 5 January 2014
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| | predecessor = [[Shajahan Khan]]
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| | constituency_MP1 = [[Gazipur-1]]
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| | predecessor1 = [[Md. Rahamat Ali]]
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| | term_start1 = 25 January 2009 | |
| | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1946|10|01|df=y}}
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| | birth_place = [[Gazipur District]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]]
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| | party = [[Bangladesh Awami League]]
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| | office2 = President of [[Gazipur District]] [[Awami League]]
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| | predecessor2 = Position Established
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| | successor2 = incumbent
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| '''Mozammel Haque''' (born 1 October 1946) is a [[Bangladesh Awami League]] politician and the [[Ministry of Liberation War Affairs (Bangladesh)|Minister for Liberation War Affairs]] of Bangladesh since 2014.<ref>{{cite news|title=Anisul: Qamrul, Mozammel need not to resign |url=http://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/2016/09/07/anisul-ministers-need-not-resign-posts/|work=Dhaka Tribune|accessdate=13 September 2016|date=7 September 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=http://en.prothom-alo.com/bangladesh/news/120113/Mozammel-demands-Zia%25E2%2580%2599s-DNA-test|title=Mozammel demands Zia's DNA test |work=Prothom Alo |access-date=2016-09-13}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/2016/09/11/lack-management-mounts-sufferings-holidaymakers/|title=Lack of management mounts sufferings for holidaymakers |work=Dhaka Tribune |date=2016-09-11|language=en-US|access-date=2016-09-13}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.thedailystar.net/city/shishu-park-be-removed-shahbagh-1283179|title=Shishu Park to be removed from Shahbagh |work=The Daily Star |date=2016-09-08|access-date=2016-09-13}}</ref>
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| == Early life ==
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| Haque was born on 1 October 1946 in Dakhina Khan, [[Gazipur Sadar Upazila]], [[Gazipur District]] to Anwar Ali and Rabeya Khatun.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://molwa.gov.bd/site/office_head/268c2bd7-dd1b-400f-bf1b-d84fa23a487f/%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A4|title=Honorable Minister|website=molwa.gov.bd|access-date=25 July 2022}}</ref>
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| == Career ==
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| Haque was a member of the East Pakistan Chhatra League Central Working Committee. He fought in the [[Bangladesh Liberation War|Bangladesh Liberation war]] in 1971 and was part of the Mukti Bahini. From 1973 to 1986, he was elected Upazila chairman three times and four times municipal mayor. He was elected to the parliament from [[Gazipur-1]] in 2008. He was elected unopposed from the same constituency in 2014. He acted as the [[Minister of Religious Affairs (Bangladesh)|religious minister of Bangladesh]] from 2018 to 2019. In 2019, he was appointed the [[Ministry of Liberation War Affairs (Bangladesh)|Minister for Liberation War Affairs]].<ref name=":0" />
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| == Controversy ==
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| In his 1986 book [[Bangladesh: A Legacy of Blood]], [[Anthony Mascarenhas]] wrote Mozammel was involved in a gang-rape of a newlywed wife in 1974:
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| <blockquote>One day during a combing operation in Tongi area north of Dhaka Major Nasser who was commanding another squadron of the Bengal Lancers, arrested three small-time thugs. In the course of interrogation one of the men broke down and told the army officers a story about a particularly gruesome triple murder which had rocked Tongi the previous winter. It transpired that a newly married couple travelling to their home in a taxi had been waylaid on the outskirts of the town. The bridegroom and the taxi driver were hacked to death and their bodies thrown in the river. The bride, who was carried off to an isolated cottage, was repeatedly raped by her abductors. Three days later her mutilated body was found on the road near a bridge.
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| Confessing to his part in the crime, the thug told the army men the police investigation was called off when they found that the ring-leader of the gang was his boss, Muzamil, chairman of the Tongi Awami League. According to [[Syed Faruque Rahman|Farook]], the confession so infuriated the interrogating officer, a boyish lieutenant named Ishtiaq who has since resigned and left the country, that ‘he started kicking the chap so hard that he died of internal injuries.’
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| Muzamil himself was taken by Major Nasser to Dhaka for prosecution after he had confirmed from police records that the thug had been telling the truth. According to Farook, Muzamil offered Nasser 300,000 Takkas for his release. ‘Don’t make it a public affair,’ the Awami Leaguer advised him. ‘You will anyway have to let me go, either today or tomorrow. So why not take the money and forget about it?’ Nasser, who was affronted by this blatant attempt to bribe him, swore he would bring Muzamil to trial and make him hang for his crime. He handed him over to the civil authorities. Farook said they were all astonished a few days later to find that Muzamil had been released on [[Sheikh Mujibur Rahman|Shiekh Mujib’s]] direct intervention. ‘I told you to take the money,’ Muzamil crowed. ‘You would have been the gainers. Now I have been released anyway and you get nothing.’
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| The incident shattered Farook and his colleagues. Tongi marked the turning point for them. ‘It seemed as if we were living in a society headed by a criminal organisation. It was as if the [[Mafia]] had taken over Bangladesh. We were totally disillusioned. Here was the head of government abetting murder and other extreme things from which he was supposed to protect us. This was not acceptable. We decided he must go.’
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| Major Farook wanted to kill Sheikh Mujib that very day. He recalled: ‘I lost my temper. I told Capt. Sharful Hussain “Sharful Hussain. This is absolutely useless. Let’s go and knock off this chap.” He said “Yes Sir. But think about it a bit more.” I said, “All right, I’ll think about it.”’</blockquote><ref name="Balb">{{cite book |last1=Mascarenhas |first1=Anthony |title=Bangladesh: A Legacy of Blood |date=1986 |publisher=Hodder and Stoughton |isbn=978-0-340-39420-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VoZ0QgAACAAJ&q=legacy+of+blood | pages=48 |language=en}}</ref>
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| The incident has been also depicted in novel [[Deyal]] by [[Humayun Ahmed]].
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