http://bdnews24.com/politics/2015/12/17/those-who-honoured-war-criminals-made-them-ministers-will-be-tried-hasina
Those who honoured war criminals, made them ministers will be tried: Hasina Senior Correspondent, bdnews24.com Published: 2015-12-17 23:40:09.0 BdST Updated: 2015-12-18 00:16:55.0 BdST Those who sided with war criminals and made them ministers will also face trial, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said. “War criminals have been tried and hanged. What will Khaleda Zia say to the nation?” asked Hasina in a pointed reference to such criminals being made ministers in a government headed by Khaleda. Hasina was speaking at a discussion organised by the Awami League as part of its Victory Day programmes. “People of Bangladesh must not forget that war criminals have been helped, honoured...God willing, this, too, will be brought to justice one day in Bangladesh...Because they have killed thousands of my people.” War criminals Salauddin Quader Chowdhury and Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid were hanged on Nov 22 in fulfilment of the death sentence given to them by the war crimes tribunal. Yet, such men had been made ministers. Mujahid, an Al Badr commander in 1971, had been made a minister in the Four-Party coalition government headed by Khaleda Zia, and Chowdhury had been appointed parliamentary affairs advisor to the prime minister. Motiur Rahman Nizami, another Jamaat-e-Islami leader sentenced to death for war crimes by the International Crimes Tribunal, was also a member of Khaleda’s cabinet. “Trials have proved they are war criminals. They have been sentenced and the verdicts executed,” said Hasina, the Awami League president. She said Khaleda would have to take the responsibility one day for honouring them by making them ministers in an independent country. Hasina, speaking as the chief guest at the function held at the Krishibid Institution on Thursday, said: “Our new generation has not seen the genocide the Pakistani forces committed in 1971.” Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had started the trial of suspected war criminals. But Ziaur Rahman, who assumed power after the former’s assassination, dropped the proceedings and gave war criminals an opportunity to join politics. “Ziaur Rahman placed in positions of power those who were against the Liberation War and were believed to be war criminals. In his absence, his wife Khaleda Zia is pursuing the same policy.” Hasina said without naming anyone that “they live in Bangladesh but dream about Pakistan”. About the BNP’s allegation that the party’s leaders and worker were being implicated in cases, the prime minister said the cases were for “burning people to death’. “Killers are killers. They will certainly be tried. No one will be able to save them.” Hasina said Gen Zia and his wife Khaleda wanted to turn Bangladesh into a “failed state”. She told party leader and workers never to let Bangladesh’s independence be compromised. “Twenty-one years have been wasted. We don’t want to waste even a day or an hour.” She spoke of the spontaneous celebration of Victory Day among the people this year. It had created a lot of enthusiasm even among Bengalis living abroad. -- Peace Is Doable -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
