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[4 Sep 2010 | No Comment ]

DHAKA—As criticism over the lack of progress in Sri Lanka’s war inquiry is mounting and a defiant military regime in Burma resists increasing pressure for a UN war crimes inquiry, Bangladesh has high hopes for a war crimes tribunal that has been 40 years in the making.
Bringing to justice key perpetrators of atrocities committed during Bangladesh’s 1971 liberation war for independence is the only way the nation will ever be able to heal, rights activists say.

Muslim devotees offer Friday prayer at Baitul Mukarram, …