It's last chance to try war criminals
Says Ashraf
The tenure of the present government is probably the last chance to hold the trial of the war criminals, LGRD and Cooperatives Minister Syed Ashraful Islam said yesterday.
“The party is in power and may assume power in the future. But it won't be possible to try the war criminals then if the trial is not held this time”, he said.
Ashraf, also general secretary of the ruling Awami League, urged all to keep united in favour of the war crimes trial until it completes.
The government has brought only a few war criminals to justice, he said.
“The war criminals and the anti-liberation war forces have huge invisible power. They have power of money, arms, bombs and terrorism.
"They have also collaborators at both home and abroad, and these collaborators have been conspiring locally and internationally to foil the war crimes trial spending big money".
The AL spokesperson said he received e-mail from Europe, USA and Muslim Middle Eastern countries everyday about the plot to foil the trial.
“So everybody must be united for the trial until it is completed”.
The AL leader made the call at a grassroots meeting of Awami Jubo League at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in the capital.
Jubo League, AL's youth front, organised the meeting to prepare itself for according "Youth Reception" to Prime Minister and AL chief Sheikh Hasina for attaining maritime victory with Myanmar on April 18. Jubo League Acting Chairman Omar Faruk Chowdhury chaired the meeting.
Referring to the formation of Jubo League after the Liberation War, the LGRD minister criticised Hasanul Haque Inu's Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD) saying that had the politics not divided through the formation of the JSD, the cruel incident of August 15, 1975, would not have taken place.
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