BNP leaders tight-lipped over verdict

Maintaining their party’s no-comment policy over verdicts against war criminals, BNP leaders Wednesday were tight-lipped about the Supreme Court judgment jailing unto death their alliance partner Jamaat leader Delwar Hossain Sayedee for his crimes against humanity, according to a news agency.
Contacted, senior BNP leaders declined to make any comment on the verdict, saying they should not say anything about the judgement of the country’s apex court.
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court Wednesday commuted Sayedee’s death penalty to imprisonment until death for his crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971.
BNP has made no comment, officially or unofficially, on the verdicts so far delivered by the Supreme Court and the International Crimes Tribunals.
Though the party leaders after every verdict had said they would officially come up with their reactions, but that did not happen.
A BNP leader wishing anonymity said their party has been avoiding from giving reactions to the verdicts as BNP has questions over the formation of the International Crimes Tribunals and neutrality of the trial process.