Govt plans to rehabilitate poor, innocent people misguided into militancy
Wednesday, 22 April 2009
The government plans to rehabilitate misguided poor and innocent people who tend to get involved in militancy, State Minister for Home Affairs Tanjim Ahmed Sohel Taj said Sunday about a latest combat plan against a resurgence of the menace, reports UNB.
"The militants belonging to grassroots level are mostly poor and innocent and the government is planning to rehabilitate them to change their course of life," he said during a meeting with a delegation of the Crime Reporters' Association of Bangladesh (CRAB) at the Home Ministry.
Home Minister Sahara Khatun and Home Secretary Abdus Sobhan Sikdar were present.
Sohel Taj said militancy is not only the problem involving madrasas-it may be bred in schools and colleges. "We must dig out the roots of militancy wherever it is hidden," he said.
On investigation into the BDR carnage, the State Minister said he believes that investigation is being carried out in free, fair and neutral manner, adding that the investigation report will remain as an example for Bangladesh.
About trial of war criminals Sohel Taj said this was the opportune moment to try them and this opportunity would never come if once slips out of hand.
He said the tribunal will be constituted with honest and efficient people, maintaining international standards of war-crime trial.
The investigating agency and prosecutors will also be recruited in similar manner.
Describing crime reporters as a third eye of society, Sohel Taj said the Home Ministry sometimes takes action on the basis of media reports.
"The militants belonging to grassroots level are mostly poor and innocent and the government is planning to rehabilitate them to change their course of life," he said during a meeting with a delegation of the Crime Reporters' Association of Bangladesh (CRAB) at the Home Ministry.
Home Minister Sahara Khatun and Home Secretary Abdus Sobhan Sikdar were present.
Sohel Taj said militancy is not only the problem involving madrasas-it may be bred in schools and colleges. "We must dig out the roots of militancy wherever it is hidden," he said.
On investigation into the BDR carnage, the State Minister said he believes that investigation is being carried out in free, fair and neutral manner, adding that the investigation report will remain as an example for Bangladesh.
About trial of war criminals Sohel Taj said this was the opportune moment to try them and this opportunity would never come if once slips out of hand.
He said the tribunal will be constituted with honest and efficient people, maintaining international standards of war-crime trial.
The investigating agency and prosecutors will also be recruited in similar manner.
Describing crime reporters as a third eye of society, Sohel Taj said the Home Ministry sometimes takes action on the basis of media reports.