Case filed for declaring 36 persons war criminals
Friday, 14 November 2008
A case was filed Thursday with a plea for declaring 36 persons, including the entire hierarchy of Jamaat-e-Islami, 'war criminals' for their role against the country's liberation war way back in 1971, reports UNB.
They include party supremo Prof Golam Azam, incumbent ameer Maulana Matiur Rahman Nizami, secretary general Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujaheed, Qamaruzzaman and Delwar Hossain Saidee.
Two Supreme Court lawyers-M Safayet Hossain and M Liton - and another person named Rajib Ahmed filed the case with Dhaka Judge's Court for the declaration of war criminals.
In the case statement the plaintiffs appealed for slapping a ban on the suspects' politics in the country and declaring them "ineligible for taking part in election through declaring them war criminals".
Judge M Ishtiaque Hossain accepted the case and fixed November 16 for the hearing.
The legal move came in the wake of a renewed countrywide campaign in the present interim period by a forum of the sector commanders of the liberation war to drum up their demand for war-crime trial after a lapse of over three decades.
They include party supremo Prof Golam Azam, incumbent ameer Maulana Matiur Rahman Nizami, secretary general Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujaheed, Qamaruzzaman and Delwar Hossain Saidee.
Two Supreme Court lawyers-M Safayet Hossain and M Liton - and another person named Rajib Ahmed filed the case with Dhaka Judge's Court for the declaration of war criminals.
In the case statement the plaintiffs appealed for slapping a ban on the suspects' politics in the country and declaring them "ineligible for taking part in election through declaring them war criminals".
Judge M Ishtiaque Hossain accepted the case and fixed November 16 for the hearing.
The legal move came in the wake of a renewed countrywide campaign in the present interim period by a forum of the sector commanders of the liberation war to drum up their demand for war-crime trial after a lapse of over three decades.