Random Thoughts on ICT Witness Scandal

We read a report on The Telegraph about the ICT scandal and found a video clip in YouTube where a witness name shamshul haque Nannu says he was compelled to give false statement against Mawlana Motiur Rahman Nizami at International criminal Court for 71’s war crimes. He also said a special branch of army intelligence is handling the matter and was threatened.

You can find this video here:

After spreading the video clip quickly through the online electronic media, general people shocked to see another alleged scandal of ICT (Previously was on Skype). Jamaat has been denying it as a fair trial from the very beginning of the trial procedure though.

But dramatically the presently most discussed person Nannu arranges a press conference where he says, He came to know  from a newspaper that a video of his interview is belong to them. He saw the video from YouTube later on but he denies that the person seen in the video clip is not him and he has a mustache and had a long curly hair from childhood. He claimed the man in focus has neither a mustache nor long curly hair and the voice that was heard was not him.

The given statement without any change is given below in Bangla and given the news report link on his press conference

“পত্রিকার সংবাদটির মাধ্যমে আমি জানতে পারি আমার সাক্ষাৎকার সম্বলিত একটি ভিডিও তাদের কাছে রয়েছে। পরে ইউটিউবে সাক্ষাৎকারটি আমি দেখতে পাই। সেখানে যে লোকটি দেখানো হচ্ছে তার গোঁফ নেই। ছোট বেলা থেকেই আমার ঝাকড়া লম্বা চুল রয়েছে। কিন্তু ওই লোকটির চুল লম্বা ঝাকড়া নয়। যে গলার স্বরটি দেয়া হয়েছে তাও আমার নয়। এটি আমার স্বরের একটি বিকৃত স্বর। এছাড়া প্রচারিত বক্তব্যও আমার নয়। “

Refusal of Shamsul hauque Nannu’s alleged statement twisted the situation and made it more complex. As it has already become a burning topic of present time, I found another video of him which was taken in the time of ICT prosecution's investigation in his locality.

You can watch this video here

Major Observation:

1.       In the video at press conference, he is being seen with mustache and curly long hair and there’s no doubt the man in the video is Shamsul Haque Nannu

2.       But look at the video previously shot in the time of investigation He has neither a long hair nor a mustache and the person is very much similar to the man the telegraph reported about.

Minor Observation:

1.       Look closely the video in which he is briefing to the journalists in the press conference, he looks tensed hesitated and threatened

Opinion:  After all these observations, If we are not biased can easily understand the authority may  pressure him for that press conference steaming the matter another way and suppressing the allegation of ICT scandal. Previously we all know about Sayedee Witness Bali's abduction, though authority denied his abduction, lately found in Indian jail.

Mehdi Masud