Syed Fazlul Karim

See also: Captain Advocate Fazlul Karim

Fazlul Karim was an Islamist politician and alleged war criminal from Bangladesh. He started a residential madrassah in Charmonai, Barisal District, southern Bangladesh and claimed himself to be a pir (an Islamic scholar and saint). Since his death in 2006, his eldest son Rezaul Karim runs the madrasa.

1971

Maulana Fazlul Karim is regarded as war criminal by a notorious minor leftist Bangladeshis group for his role in 1971, liberation war of Bangladesh. At 1971, hundreds of Bengali women went for a shelter to his madrasa to escape the mass rape and murder by the Pakistani troops; but self-declared maulana, Fazlul Karim and his colleagues declared those helpess girls as commodities of war (thus per Islamic law consumable by the Muslim soldiers) and as such supplied them to the Pakistani soldiers. The dead bodies of those raped girls were flung into the nearby river or buried in the mass grave behind the madrasa. The maulana is also alleged to have slain many Hindus and freedom fighters in his own hand (like the head Imam of Mymensingh did as described by Taslima Nasrin in Nirbachita Columns) and threw the dead bodies to the river after slitting their bellies so that they don't float.

After 1971

No case was filed against Fazlul karim or no revenge was taken by any victims. Surprisingly he was awarded "Swadhinota Padok" (Independence Medal) by Hossain Mohammad Ershad government in 1980s.

Death

After long suffering from diabetes and kidney disease Fazlul Karim died at the age 71 in his own home at village Charmonai in Sadar upazila of Barisal district at November 24, 2006 about 9:40 am. He had two wives, seven sons and a daughter.

See also

• Razakars (Bangladesh)

He had one wife and after death of first wife he married.

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