Help try war criminals
Law minister urges int'l communities
Law Minister Shafique Ahmed yesterday urged the international communities to extend cooperation in holding the trial into the crimes against humanity in the country's liberation war of 1971.
“We make an appeal to the international community -- please help us so that we can follow due process and uphold international standard in the trial”, said Shafique Ahmed.
The minister was speaking at the closing ceremony of a training session on CMN (Case Matrix Network) legal tools database search at Judicial Administration Training Institute in the city.
The training programme was arranged to help investigators and prosecutors of International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) Bangladesh produce evidences and documents collected from different sources before the tribunal in a scientific and systematic way.
Barrister Shafique said ICT is a domestic tribunal and wants to show the world communities that a domestic tribunal can successfully conclude trial living up to global standard.
“If we conclude the trial successfully, it would be a model for the entire world”.
He said the government wants to complete the trial in order to put a stop to the culture of impunity practiced in the country and to establish the rule of law.
About the training programme, he hoped that the training would help the authority concerned of the tribunal deal with the evidences so that international standard can be ensured.
ICT investigation agency coordinator Sanaul Haque and CMN senior adviser Dr Patrick Treanor, among others, spoke at the programme chaired by ICT chief prosecutor Ghulam Arieff Tipoo.
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