EU opposes death penalties in major cases
Sunday, 24 January 2010
The European Union (EU) says it has been following the judicial proceedings of the Bangabandhu murder case, BDR mutiny cases and preparations for trying 1971 war crimes, but it opposes death penalties in any of these cases of "politically motivated murders" reports bdnews24.com.
The statement issued Saturday by Catherine Ashton, high representative of the EU for foreign affairs and security policy, comes against the backdrop of preparations for hanging the convicted killers of the country's founding father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
The incumbent government has also taken steps for long-awaited trial this year of war criminals who had collaborated with the occupying Pakistan army during the nine-month liberation war in 1971 in which an estimated three million people, mostly civilians, had been killed.
The statement issued Saturday by Catherine Ashton, high representative of the EU for foreign affairs and security policy, comes against the backdrop of preparations for hanging the convicted killers of the country's founding father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
The incumbent government has also taken steps for long-awaited trial this year of war criminals who had collaborated with the occupying Pakistan army during the nine-month liberation war in 1971 in which an estimated three million people, mostly civilians, had been killed.