Tapos Kumar Das

The establishment of the International Crimes Tribunal, Bangladesh (ICTBD) in 2010 created high hopes that justice for the 1971 genocide might finally eventuate.

Of the affirmative actions taken by the state, reservation in public office is the most contentious one.

In 2010, the government resumed the post war justice out of a commitment to end the culture of denial and impunity. It was assumed that - many (if not all) of the perpetrators - will be brought to justice.

Soon after the Second World War, by constituting the Charters of the Nuremberg Tribunal (1945) and Tokyo Tribunal (1946), the world

The International Crimes (Tribunals) Act, 1973 was enacted to provide for the detention, prosecution and