War criminals
Some time ago it was Dr. Kamal Hossain and now it is Dr. B. Chowdhury who has apologised for failure to try war criminals (DS, March 28). After 37 years, these two gentlemen, like all other political opportunists, now feel the necessity to put the war criminals on trial.
Criminals of any sort social, economic or war criminal, must be put on trial and punished as per the law of the country and Bangladeshi war criminals who opposed our independence and in the process committed crimes (serious offence), must have been tried and punished long ago. That was not done and the rumour goes that they were “forgiven after taking bribe” by the leadership that took control of the country when Bangladesh was liberated and became an independent state. The war criminals can be put on trial even now but those who cry for it clearly and loudly these days seem to be doing so for some other reason. They are making it a political issue and by doing so they are showing disrespect to the victims of Bangladesh's liberation war.
It is not the trial of the war criminals that they want, they want gaining political points and thereby coming to the limelight, winning election and grabbing leadership of the country.
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