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Category Archives: Controversy

‘Justice in Bangladesh: Another kind of crime’ itself is another kind of crime!

This article is jointly written by Omar Shehab and Farhan Nasim. Photo courtesy: Arif Hafiz On 23rd March The Economistpublished an article titled ‘Justice in Bangladesh: Another kind of crime’ [1] criticizing the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT),Bangladesh. The article starts by dignifying the infamous Eichmann trial, a Second World War Holocaust case, which took place in Jerusalem…

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In response to the fuss about #ICT’s acceptance of “hearsay evidence”

Pro-defence commentators often criticise ICT’s acceptance of “hearsay evidence”. How valid is that criticism? It is true that “hearsay” evidence (eg: newspaper reports, or testimony of people who were not present at the scene of crime) is not an ideal kind of evidence in terms of their quality. However, this principle applies to ordinary criminal…

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Who’s Afraid of Sarmila Bose?

Sarmila Bose has been invited to key international policy talks on Pakistan over the last few years. This article looks at her connections to various think-tanks and policy groups in both UK and USA which possibly explains her research. …

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Abusing the War Crimes Trial

1. We have witnessed how political exploitation hindered the earlier process of war crimes trial. Over the last four decades, politicisation has been used to embed a division within the society for personal and partisan political benefits. This article reviews some of those post-independence schisms and argues why we need to be vigilant to not…

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Trials and Errors

Over many years, public discourse on war crimes and its trial since 1971 seems to have generated many errors, and facts are often ignored or forgotten. This piece attempts to provide a set of facts. From the onset, two independent trial processes were established for the Pakistani and local war criminals under separate laws.…

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The Curious Case of the 195 War Criminals

As soon as the trial of war criminals began, questions were raised from different quarters as to how and why the 195 Pakistani soldiers were released in 1974 without any trial. It has also been argued that those 195 Pakistanis were the main war criminals and their release questions the merit of the current trial process. This article investigates the news reports that were published in international media from December 16, 1971 to April 15, 1974 to understand how and why those 195 Pakistanis were accused and released [..]…

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Archive I: Media Archive

Archives news reports, opinions, editorials published in different media outlets from around the world on 1971, International Crimes Tribunal and the justice process.

Archive II: ICT Documentation

For the sake of ICT’s legacy this documentation project archives, and preserves proceeding-documents, e.g., judgments, orders, petitions, timelines.

Archive III: E-Library

Brings at fingertips academic materials in the areas of law, politics, and history to facilitate serious research on 1971, Bangladesh, ICT and international justice.

Archive IV: Memories

This archive records from memory the nine-month history of 1971 as experienced and perceived by individuals from all walks of life.