Minister for Textiles and Jute Affairs Abdul Latif Siddiqui Wednesday said there are no war criminals in Bangladesh, but there are liberation war criminals of course, reports bdnews-24.com.
"War crimes occur when two countries are warring against each other. But we had fought for our freedom and rights to self-rule," he said at a press conference at the Information Ministry in the city Wednesday.
"During that war of independence of ours, some despicable cowards had taken shelter under the capes of the occupation troops from Pakistan and facilitated their misrule.
"Those blackguards should be taken to task."
In presence of the senior officials of the Jute Ministry and heads of different organisations under the ministry, the veteran AL leader said the cliques who assisted the Pakistanis in 1971 and those who benefited from independence hero Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's death are opposing the government's initiative to hold the trials of those criminals.
Despite the opposition, the government is determined to try the independence war criminals.
Liberation war criminals will be put on trial: Siddiqui
FE Team | Published: August 20, 2009 00:00:00 | Updated: February 01, 2018 00:00:00
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