Bangladesh rid of stigma
States law minister
Law Minister Shafique Ahmed yesterday said the nation got rid of its stigma with the death sentence against Abul Kalam Azad alias Bachchu Razakar for his crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War. “The trial of war criminals was supposed to start long ago, but it did not for political reasons. Through the verdict, people's expectations have been fulfilled,†he told journalists at his secretariat office. International Crimes Tribunal-2, in its maiden judgment yesterday, passed a death sentence on Bachchu Razakar, expelled from Jamaat-e-Islami and tried in absentia, in a war crimes case. Shafique said Bachchu Razakar could appeal against the verdict in the Supreme Court's Appellate Division within 30 days of the judgment's pronouncement by surrendering to the court. “As the trial was held under a special law, he would not get a time extension after 30 days,†he said, adding that the foreign and home ministries would find him and, if hiding aboard, bring him back.
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