Filed under: Indian Subcontinent | Tags: Adolph Hitler, Awami League, Bangali Intellectuals, Bangladesh, Bangladeshi War Criminals, Collaborators Act, Colonialism, Dhaka, East Pakistan, Ferdousi Priyabhashini, Geneva Convention for Genocide and Torture of Women, Geneva Conventions, Genocide, German Nazis, International Crimes Tribunals Act, Jamat-e-Islami, M.A. Hassan, Mass Killing, Mujibur Rahman, Muslim League, National Liberation, Nazi, Nazis, Nezam-e-Islam, Pakistan, Pakistan Democratic Party, Pakistani Army, Pakistani Home Department, Pakistani Occupation Forces, Pakistnai War Criminals, Peoples Republic of Bangladesh, Second World War, Shaheed, Sheikh Hasina, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Torture, UN Secretary General, United Nations, War Crimes, War Criminals, West Pakistan, Ziaur Rahman
"Innumerable Bodies Found" (Bodies of intellectuals brutally tortured and killed by the Pak Army and their collaborators are found dumped in a ditch in Rayer Bazar.)
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16 January 2009
Source: The Daily Star
When Awami League Chief Sheikh Hasina announced her election manifesto in a jam-packed hall room on December 12, everyone was listening with rapt attention. Suddenly her supporters gave a huge round of applause breaking the silence. The jubilant applause was a clear message to Hasina, other politicians, foreign diplomats and journalists in the air-conditioned hall room of a five star hotel where the announcement had been made: even after 37 years people are highly emotional about this long-standing issue.
Hasina’s election pledge about trying war crimes has uplifted the spirits of not only the party workers, but has given hope to the entire nation despite its growing disillusionment from past experience of successive governments including the AL’s, of ignoring this popular demand. Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s government had initiated the trial of the war criminals but could not continue due to the (more…)
