Bangladesh News

Ekattorer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee and different political parties yesterday urged the government to file cases against the war criminals to bring them to trial.

At a meeting they also called for a list of the war criminals and collaborators.

“We have decided not to file any case at individual level. Rather, we think, the government should take the initiative in trying the war criminals,” Prof Kabir Chowdhury, president of the Nirmul Committee( Forum for Secular Bangladesh) advisory body, told The Daily Star last night.

“The war criminals must apologise to the nation,” he said talking about decisions of the meeting organised as part of the Nirmul Committee’s ongoing dialogue with different socio-political and cultural organisations.

Abdur Razzaq and Matia Chowdhury of Awami League, Hasanul Haq Inu of Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal, Rashed Khan Menon of Workers Party, Dilip Barua of Samyabadi Dal, Manjurul Ahsan Bulbul of Communist Party of Bangladesh, and Shahriar Kabir of Nirmul Committee, among others, attended the meeting held at the residence of Kabir Chowdhury.

“We have discussed how the war criminals could be brought to book,” said Prof Chowdhury.

“We urge the Election Commission (EC) not to allow the religion-based political parties to register with it,” added the national professor.