Title PARTITION: Tape 70 Writer 255MODEM Mod Date & Time 255MODEM May 01 07:02 TAPE 70 Side A Ghazi Ghulam AJMIRI - 76; member of Muslim Students fedn and Muslim National Guard and a minor muscleman in Cal in 1946; pugnacious, a huge bear of a man; at various times seems to have supported the British, Pakistan and B'desh; served in Pakistan army and as an emissary; wife's mother a cousin of Suhrawardy; one son in Dhaka, one in Dubai, other children in US - at his home in Dhaka, 21/4/97 25 - [Direct Action day rally] 'I was there, and my father ... when he got out of car, he looked so similar to QeA, people started shouting QeA zindabad ...' 33 - 'very high mood, very tough .... very determined; the Hs they nevr liked it ... there they nevr created any trouble; afterwards, there was big trouble ... WERE YOU EXP TROUBLE always ...' 51 - Gurkhas started firing on the people 60 - [MNG prep'ns for viol?] 'there was no such prep'n I tell you ... our H friends were v much opposed ... many people were ... killed, I can't forget it' 78 - 'I'm the man who organised the peace cttee ... sitting in Sarat Bose's hse ... [along with S.P. Muhkerjee and other H Mahasabha leaders] ... I used to go to a H locality, along with him, ... that made them v much nervous' 105 - [did Muslim N Gd respond] 'of course, they had to defend ... they used to call me brave ... strong-arm ... we came to know one person, a Hindu who was known as Gopal Pata [***], ... he used to catch hold of the Ms and slaughter them, somebody sd ... G Pata has grabbed four Ms and slaughtered them; imm we rushed there, G Pata, looked at me: oh, this man again has come here; so i sd yes, ahy are you killing him; cos he's a M; ... he sd you go, we won't kill anybody now' 133 - 'we used to defend ourselves with lathi, jhandha, spear, whatever we had DID YOU HAVE GUNS? no, I never used guns ... tho I had guns' 144 - 'it is Hs who started this thing; they never wanted that we get some power ...' 150 > anecdote re Jinnah in Bombay; 'he never sd assaiam alaikum, and he knew nothing about Islam'; among students who met Jinnah - and anecdote about chucking out MLAs 187 > anecdote re Jinnah at Imperial Hotel, 'I was a very bad boy you know, so I started hitting them [the khakhsars] and threw them out' 207 - 'YOU SOUND AS IF YOU WERE QUITE A HARDLINE LEADER OF THE STUDENTS' FEDN? yes ... I don't want to kill Hs, but I want the Ms sd get a separate part ...' 222 - 'we never meant to killing the Hs, but Hs started killing us; everywhere; at the riot time in Cal in my locality. Park Circus, many Hs were living next to my hse ... I sd [to Ms] don't kill anybody who doesn't kill you' 238 > anecdote re Hindu girl on tram given refuge 241 - 'I told local people, do not kill any Hindu'