Hiding of Bachchu Rajakar
Be cautious of double-dealers
HR body boss asks govt
The government should keep aware of "double-dealers", as such people might have helped Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, known as Bachchu Razakar, sneak into India, National Human Rights Commission Chairman Prof Mizanur Rahman said yesterday.
“Rab and detectives can tell everything about daily activities of criminals. Can't they say how Bachchu Razakar escaped? What can be done if devil is in the system?” he asked, and advised that the government get itself rid of such people who had links to anti-liberation groups.
Law Minister Barrister Shafique Ahmed said, “Law will follow its own trajectory. Criminals will be punished no matter wherever they stay”.
Expressing worries over slow pace of the war crimes trial, the NHRC chief said there was no time to waste. The nation will be freed from the culture of impunity once the criminals are punished, he added.
The law minister assured that the war crimes trial would complete in time and in the proper way.
The minister made the assurance at a discussion on “the 41st Anniversary of the Proclamation of Independence and Constitution of Bangladesh”. Ekatturer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee (Forum for Secular Bangladesh and Trial of War Criminals of 1971) organised the programme at the Women's Voluntary Association (WVA) auditorium.
Prof Mizanur said the Proclamation of Independence was written so logically that even if the country's constitution was destroyed, the nation's self-identity would remain unscathed.
Eminent jurist Barrister M Amir-ul Islam, vice-president of the nirmul committee Shahidjaya Shyamali Nasrin Chowdhury, journalist Kamal Lohani, and Barrister Dr Turin Afroz also spoke at the discussion.
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