May 18, 2011
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina
Prime Minister’s Office
Old Sangsad Bhaban
Tejagaon, Dhaka-1215
Bangladesh
Re: International Crimes (Tribunals) Act
Dear Prime Minister,
Human Rights Watch welcomes your government’s commitment to bring to justice those responsible for serious human rights abuses in 1971. Human Rights Watch strongly supports a successful legal and judicial process that is fair and impartial in holding the perpetrators of crimes accountable. Justice for victims of these atrocities is long overdue. Those responsible have evaded justice for far too long.
We are therefore pleased that the government has decided to set up special courts …