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Set up int'l tribunal to try war criminals: Hasina

By Staff Correspondent
BAKTABALI (Narayanganj(, Dec 4: Awami League chief and Leader of the Opposition in Parliament Sheikh Hasina today demanded setting up an international tribunal to try individuals involved in the war crimes during Bangladesh's War of Independence.
"The Foreign Minister has recently demanded of the United Nations for an International tribunal for war crimes in Bosnia-Herzegovina ... I support him and demand similar tribunal in our country for those who had massacred and raped millions of people during 1971," Hasina told a huge public meeting at the Ka-nainagar Subhanla High School ground this afternoon.
The meeting was organised by the Baktabali Union unit of Awami League to commemorate the November 29. 1971 massacre during the Liberation War.
Pakistani occupation forces on the day killed 139 people at Baktabali, some 20 kilometers
off the capital.
Of tha total killed, 31 were burned to death by the Pak soldfers.
Speaking as chief guest at the meeting, Hasina accused the ruling party of misuse of power, corruption, nepotism and repression on the opposition political workers.
She said that the common people had not been benefited by electing BNP to power.
"With BNP in power. Khaleda Zia's son and the Foreign Minister's relatives have grown richer while the poor have become poorer."
She said that the people, who had voted for the sheaf of paddy (poll symbol of BNP) for better days had realized their blunder.
Hasina said the condition of the country's peasants was miserable. They cannot get the price of their harvest. Prices of agricultural Inputs have soared as the newly elected government has withdrawn subsidy
from the agricultural sector, she said.
The country’s economy is no longer progressing ... 90 per cent of the foreign aid is going back to the donors unused."
The Awami League president resented the government's subservient foreign policy and said that the country's Independence was at stake.
"Think of the recent agreement between Khaleda and Naraslmha Rao . . . push back operation began Immediately after her return home . . . today the market Is flooded with Indian sugar and eggs . . . India is not taking away our country . . . It is making its way in to our hungry belly."
Presided over by Ibrahim Pradhan. a Baktabali Union AL leader, the meeting was also addressed by Awami League General Secretary Zlllur Rahman, presidium members Abdur Razzak MP. Amir Hossain Amu. and AL leaders Abdul Mannan, Momtaz Hossain, Mofizul Islam, Ansar All, Jahangir Alam and Olas-uddin Ahmed.