Trial of war criminals
Photo: Rashid Talukder
Nowadays the demand for punishing war the criminals of 1971 is a burning issue. It has always been the demand of the people of this country. Though 37 years have been passed, these collaborators are yet to be tried. And so these culprits are now showing the courage to kick the freedom fighters! Not only that, these war criminals, the old Razakars, Al Badrs and Al Shams, told journalists a few months ago that there were no war criminals in the country and also called Bangladesh's war of independence a mere civil war. It is indeed a shame for us as a nation that the deaths of so many martyrs who lay down their lives for the liberation of our country have not been avenged. No government could take any initiative to make these collaborators face justice who went against the rule of law, though thousands of records are available to prove their crimes. The copies of newspapers printed at that time are littered with evidence of war crimes. Hundreds of mass graves have been discovered in which the bodies of innocent civilians were dumped by the collaborators of the Pakistani army. This non-political caretaker government cannot deny its responsibility to try these war criminals. Before it leaves office, the government can form a war crimes commission to punish them and thus the nation can be free from sin.
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