‘যুদ্ধাপরাধের জন্য একাধিক লোকের বিচার হবে
প্রধানমন্ত্রী শেখ হাসিনা বলেছেন, বর্তমান সরকার ক্ষমতায় আসার পর সারা বিশ্বে বাংলাদেশের মর্যাদা বেড়েছে। এটা ধরে রাখতে হবে। গতকাল রোববার বঙ্গবন্ধু আন্তর্জাতিক সম্মেলন কেন্দ্রে ঐতিহাসিক সাতই মার্চ উপলক্ষে আওয়ামী লীগ আয়োজিত আলোচনা সভায় প্রধানমন্ত্রী এ কথা বলেন।
এদিকে সকালে বঙ্গবন্ধুর প্রতিকৃতিতে শ্রদ্ধা নিবেদন শেষে আওয়ামী লীগের সাধারণ সম্পাদক সৈয়দ আশরাফুল ইসলাম বলেছেন, একাত্তরের যুদ্ধাপরাধের সঙ্গে জড়িত মূল এক বা একাধিক ব্যক্তির বিচার করা হবে। লাখ লাখ লোকের বিচার হবে না। যারা মুক্তিযুদ্ধকালীন হত্যা, লুটপাট, অগ্নিসংযোগ, ধর্ষণের মতো মানবতাবিরোধী অপরাধ …

A case was filed on Wednesday against 23 alleged razakars (collaborators) with the Senior Judicial Magistrate court for killing a freedom fighter during the War of Liberation in 1971. Abdur Rab Sheikh, brother of martyred freedom fighter Jamiruddin Sheikh of Teligathi village in Morelganj upazila, filed the case with the court of Senior Judicial Magistrate Rakibul Islam. The court ordered the Officer-in-Charge of Morleganj police station to record the case as first information report (FIR). In his complaint, Abdur Rab alleged that …

Says home minister
To fulfil election pledges of the government, trial of the war criminals will be held on this soil, Home Minister Sahara Khatun said yesterday.
The process of trial has already been started and the government would try to complete it during its tenure, she said during her speech at the inauguration of a water pump at Manikdi in the city.
The government will also hold trials of the killings of four national leaders and former finance minister Shah AMS Kibria and August 21 …

Says Ashraf; sector commanders, Nirmul committee fire back at him
The government will bring a handful of war criminals to justice “as a symbolic trial”, said Awami League General Secretary Syed Ashraful Islam yesterday.
“The trial of war criminals doesn’t mean trials of thousands of people. It will be symbolic and those who led the massacre in 1971 will be tried,” he said clarifying government’s stance on the issue.
It is meaningless to create unrest everywhere in the country, he told journalists after placing floral wreaths on …

The 1971 war criminals must be tried paying no heed to the national and international evil forces, said Workers Party President Rashed Khan Menon yesterday.
“There is no alternative to holding trials of war criminals in order to protect the independence and sovereignty of the country,” he said, adding that a vested quarter is trying to foil the trials.
He was speaking as chief guest at a meeting organised by Dhaka city unit of Bangladesh Workers Party at its office.
Party’s city unit Secretary Abul Hossain …