Interview With Sisters From Lal Mosque "1500 Sisters Were Massacred"
Jul 17, 2007
Translated and Reported by Ahmed Jan, JUS Pakistan Correspondent in Islamabad
“1500 Sisters Were Massacred in Jamia Hafsa; No One Was Taken Hostage; There Was No “Extremist” Or “Terrorist” In The Mosque; The Regime Is Hiding the Dead Bodies; Fear Of Death Vanished After Seeing Dead Bodies Of Brothers And Sisters; Bloody Islamic Revolution A Must Say The Sisters From Jamia Hafsa.
Editors Note: Alhamdulilah, as promised here is the interview with some of the Sisters who were able to escape the Lal Mosque Massacre that was conducted by urdupoint.com. If your blood is not already boiling, it will be after reading this.
Islamabad: The Sisters who had been able to escape the massacre by apostate Pakistani forces in Lal Mosque have talked to local television about their ordeal. Sister Amama revealed that on Day 6 of the siege around Lal Mosque Complex when they surrendered with other colleagues, there were around 1500 Sisters still inside the Jamia Hafsa Madrassah and there was no pressure from the Lal Mosque administration to stay nor were they held hostage. The Sister added that all Sisters inside were highly motivated with strong desire for martyrdom and they had wished to be buried in Jamia Hafsa. None of the Sisters were ready to leave the Madrassah and had refused to comply with the orders of the principal Umme Hassan to leave the compound. Sister Amama further said that they only came out when Umme Hassan tricked them that she would follow after them. After Sisters came out and learnt that Umme Hassan and her family were still inside they were very annoyed and protested with their principal. After the interview the apostate regime’s intelligence agencies have restricted the movement of all Sisters escaping the massacre and are closely monitoring their activities. In the wake of this situation another local television has cancelled plans to interview the escaped Sisters.
During the interview Sister Amama disclosed “On the 6th day of siege when we “surrendered”, 100 Sisters and 200 Brothers had already been martyred inside the compound and our rooms were full dead bodies of martyred Brothers and Sisters. …. Our Brothers resisted the evil forces with only 15 AK 47’s and proved that one needs strong belief and faith and not weapons and numbers to stand firm for truth”. Rejecting the lies propagated by Musharraf regime that there were “terrorists” inside, Sister Amama said, “All fighters inside the Lal Mosque were our student Brothers and if regime’s accusation were true then why was media not allowed to enter the complex?” Ms. Amama, while weeping, said, “When our Brothers and Sisters embraced martyrdom, our morale rose further. Following that we did not care about army shells and how much damage they would cause”. Rejecting the lies about presence of heavy cache of weapons inside the complex, Sister Amama said, “These accusations are baseless that there were heavy weapons inside and the regime unleashes propaganda that if there were no stockpiles of weapons then how was there so stiff a resistance. The fact is that our student Brothers were helped only by Allah and Allah made true His promise that those fighting for righteous cause receive Allah’s help though unseen means. Allah revived the memories of Battle of Uhad and Badr. The Pak Army men were not killed by our Brothers’ weapons but in fact it was Allah’s unseen power that killed them.”
Another Sister Fatima who accompanied Sister Amama in the television programme said, “1500 of our Sisters have been martyred and the regime has only disclosed 200 of them. The loved ones of our friends enquire about their daughters, but we don’t know what to tell them? There were also infants and children among the martyred students and some were as young as 2 to 8 years of ages”.
Sister Fatima charged the apostate regime, “The dead bodies of the martyred students were desecrated and then they were hidden away to hide their crimes. I appeal to the Supreme Court to unveil the regime’s heinous crimes”. In answer to a question Sister Fatima said,” Pakistan was created in the name of Kalima “La Ilaha Illallah” (There is No God But Allah) but for the last 60 years the sanctity of this Kalima has been violated (again and again). Bloody revolution is must for Shariah to prevail in this country. The blood of our student Brothers and Sisters shall never go in vain. The regime slaughtered our student Brothers and Sisters to save itself and to please the United States and as an evidence to this the US has provided two F-16’s to Pakistan.”
In a separate interview another Sister “Amna“ who stayed firm inside the Jamia Hafsa Madrassah for three days from the day siege began; from 3rd July to 6th July, 2007, after which she had to leave the compound under strict orders from principal Umme Hassan. She tells of her three day ordeal inside the Jamia Hafsa and describes the situation inside. Throughout the interview she was weeping, amking all those present very somber. Amina’s real name has been concealed for security reasons. Here how she describes her experience:
Interviewer: What is your age and what did you study at Jamia Hafsa?
Amina: My age is 17 and I have been studying the Holy Qoran, Hadith and other subjects for thee last three years.
Interviewer: Were you forced to stay inside or you stayed and left in the Madressah at your own free-will?
Amina: No! I stayed inside at my own free will and I wanted to fight. Our principal Umme Hassan had tricked us to leave the building. On the Day 3 of operation, 95 of our Sisters and 75 of our Brothers had embrace martyrdom while fighting. We all helped each other to collect the bodies of martyrs, and my hands had reddened with blood. As we picked one dead body, another of our Sisters would be martyred. The copies of the Koran we had were left open, not knowing if someone closed them or not. We did not have weapons except a few which were used by our Brothers. We used to carry water to our Mujahideen Brothers. Until Day 3 of the operation, routine classes continued. When our principal Umme Hassan noticed that there were around 1500 Sisters and they have nothing to eat she called all of us and begged us to leave the building and she asked our senior Sisters to help the Sisters reach their homes safely. But all Sisters including me refused to leave. Umme Hassan said that we should leave and she would follow. After her repeated insistence we came out but she did not. (wiping her tears) We did not want to come out and all of our Sisters had already written their last wills. We were all highly motivated with the strong desire for martyrdom and we all wished to be buried in Jamia Hafsa.
Interviewer: Amina, How many Sisters were there inside the Madrassah when you came out?
Amina: There were total of 1800 female students and we came out in a group of 300 and at that time around 100 of our Sisters had embraced martyrdom among whom were as young as 2 years old and many of our Sisters went unconscious when they collected their bodies.
Interviewer: But you said that only 30 Sisters came out on the last day of operation with Umme Hassan, where did the rest go?
Amina: This is exactly we and all those Brothers and parents want to know who are in desperate search for their sisters and daughters. I can say with confidence that none of the Sisters wanted to come out of the Madrassah and all had committed to sacrifice their lives. And these people have mercilessly slaughtered our Sisters and now they are burying their bodies under cover of darkness. There were around 1500 Sisters inside the Mosque compound; all of them have been martyred. First the regime committed this atrocity on the students, now they are hiding their bodies.
Interviewer: Can you please describe the situation inside Jamia Hafsa before the operation?
Amina: Our daily living was similar to home and we were provided everything inside the Jamia, that’s why my parents had sent me to study there. We also used to play in the grounds after Asr prayers along with the daughters of Umme Hassan and Maulana Abdul Aziz. But after the imposition of curfew, and the electricity, gas and water supply to Jamia Hafsa was cut off that added to our problems but our morale was high. I cannot describe that situation to you in words. We will never be able to forget those moments. We felt like we were in a battle field though the living conditions inside the Jamia had become intolerable after heavy bombing and tear gas shelling by security forces but still we stayed for three days and our Brothers and Sisters kept fighting for almost a week.
Interviewer: Have you planned for your future as what would you be doing?
Amina: I want to carry this mission forward and martyrdom is the first and foremost priority of my life. After this action by the regime, Pakistan does not seem to be a Muslim country. I feel that those Sisters especially the younger ones of ages 2 to 8 were lucky to have sacrificed their lives in the way of Allah and for the implementation of Islamic Law. Now I don’t desire to eat or do any other work. I only pray to Allah after every prayer that I also be given the death of martyrdom in His way. I have firm belief that even after the martyrdom of Ghazi Abdul Rasheed the movement for the implementation of Islamic Law has not ended and Islamic revolution would certainly come. Although being so called Islamic State, I feel that after all what has been done to us Pakistan is no more a Muslim country and it seems that we are in Iraq and the US is attacking us. Maulana Abdul Rasheed is still alive after martyrdom and he has become the voice of my heart. The movement for the implementation of Islamic system has not ended and I have strong faith that now Islamic revolution would certainly come one day
Interviewer: Please describe the situation when there was firing?
Amina: (weeping): These hands of mine had turned red with blood due to collecting so may bodies of martyrs. I had heard in sermons and in the news that the Sisters used to collect the bodies of their martyred Brothers in Kashmir but many Sisters including me revived that tradition in Lal Mosque and Jamia Hafsa. And we decorated our hands with the blood of our martyred Brothers. We cannot describe the ordeal of three days that we spend inside during operation by security forces; they were not less than doomsday for us. I have been studying in Madrassah before but here it was the first time I had faced such a situation where we were treated like “terrorists” in a so-called Islamic state. The rooms of the Jamia were filled with smoke on the third day and all Sisters were suffocated. So all of us decided that it is better to die with bullets than to die of suffocation but our Brothers asked us not to come out but we remained resolute that we shall fight and die of fighting. Then Umme Hassan came and sent us outside. At that time our copies of the Holy Koran were placed on the desks and I don’t know if someone placed them inside the cupboards or not….. in the front portion of the Jamia Hafsa building there were many copies of the Holy Koran lying in the firing zone but many of our Sisters tried to pick them up and believe me they were all sprayed with bullets and they all gave their lives on our laps.
After this Sister Amina could not say anything.
Some of our believing Sisters are still in the custody of apostate regime forces and their parents and Brothers are desperately searching for them. The regime officials tell them that their daughters shall be returned to them soon but no one knows when. Their honor is also unsafe at the hand of apostate butchers.
Lal Mosque has been conquered by Pakistani apostate forces and the blood of our innocent Sisters has been wiped off from there and our martyred Sisters are being placed into graves by apostate regime under the darkness of night.
The ruthless massacre and naked aggression used against Lal Mosque and Jamia Hafsa shows the extent these apostates will go to in order to promote nudity and immorality. Aren’t there any brave men in Pakistan who will avenge the blood of their Sisters?
The voice for Islam has been brutally crushed. Where are the Muslim soldiers? (JUS)
Oh Pakistani nation! Rise up and overthrow this apostate who has rebelled against the Allah’s commands.
Oh Pakistani Ulema! Come forwards and join hands with the innocents of Lal Mosque and shed your fear of this tyrant.
Oh Pakistani Islamic politicians! Shed your hypocrisy and ambiguous stance for Allah shall surely make you accountable.
Oh Pakistani Youth! Rise up and prepare for Jihad against the great evil, the United States and her client the Musharraf regime that is worst hypocrite on the face of this earth.
Oh Allah! Grant help to the oppressed women and children who are being slaughtered in your cause by the munafiqeen forces.
Oh Allah! Destroy this evil army and replace it with the believers, and strengthen the hands of Mujahideen to strike them hard.
May Allah destroy all those forces of Munafiqeen who have supported this tyrant regime overtly and covertly through their reporting in the media and their evil designs.
Special thanks to urdupoint.com for taking the risk of conducting this interview
