Where death penalty is unavoidable…

No reasonable person I know likes death for the sake of death. However, I find it quite outrageous that various political representatives from other countries and international bodies think they are speaking on behalf of human rights when they speak against the death penalty in the Bangladesh war crimes trials. The freedom loving people of Bangladesh have been waiting for 42 long years for justice. The accomplices of Pakistani occupation forces who butchered three million Bangalees are now being brought to justice through the war crimes trials. The fallacy of those who speak against death penalty is that it assumes a sufficiently politically stable environment to guarantee that those served life sentences will indeed not be freed at some point in the future. This assumption of political stability is simply not something which can be guaranteed in contemporary Bangladesh. Maybe and hopefully, later on in the future death penalty can be abandoned, but not in this generation and in this specific situation insofar as the execution of justice for these war criminals is concerned.
Scott Elliott
Texas, America