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“Why is BNP so ambivalent about the War Crimes trial?” published on September 20, 2013
Fazlul Bari
To keep Jamaat in good humour, I believe, she needs to be silent when Awami League government is prosecuting the war criminals. If she supports the war criminals' trial, she would lose the support of the Jamaat and subsequently lose the election.
Touchstone
Zia's role during Liberation and post '75 are not above suspicion. I totally agree with Mr. Anam that Khaleda Zia deliberately used the word “genocide” to describe Shapla Chattar crackdown to belittle our liberation.
SM
Well, Zia spent his formative years in Pakistan as everybody did then because the whole country was Pakistan. There were good number of top academic achievers who went to West Pakistan from the East to study medicine and engineering. I hated the fact that Zia erased the site where Pakistani forces surrendered and turned it into Shishu Park. Zia contributed during the Liberation War which we can't deny but he should be scrutinised for his later activities.
Molla A. Latif
Kudos to Mr. Anam for analysing the causes of ambivalence of BNP and its leader Khaleda Zia.
Pervez Ahmed
The whole BNP party machinery is cunning and complicit in their anti-liberation stance. They depend upon the rajakars for their protection and support.
Nds
The ambivalence is quite deliberate. To the people free of any political encumbrance, BNP's ambivalence is very clear and comprehensible. It is the unavoidable political compulsion for BNP's very existence.
Ash
Jamaat's popularity has clearly taken a plunge among the public, and so has Awami League's. People of Bangladesh, I believe, want to see secularism established. Not religious tolerance, but religious harmony.
Zman7
Kudos to the Editor for offering this commendable piece. Mr. Anam's eloquent depiction of BNP's words, acts and ideas -- e.g. its equivocal attitude towards war crimes trial, reluctance to call the known “butcher of Mirpur” and other war criminals as war criminals, and its intentional misuse of the word “genocide” to describe the deaths on May 5 -- clearly indicates its deceptive mindset with regard to war crimes trial and other events of 1971's independence movement.
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