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Sector commanders start meetings with political parties today

Staff Correspondent
Sector Commanders' Forum (SCF) will start formal view exchange meetings with different political parties today seeking pledges that the parties will not form any electoral alliance with war criminals and anti-liberation war elements.
A platform of the commanders who led the country's Liberation War in 11 sectors. SCF will also ask for commitments from the parties that they will take initiatives to try the war criminals once they come to power after the election.
As parr of the process, the SCF is
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going to sit with Awami League (AL) at its Banani office at 7.00pm today.
Asked about the agenda of the meeting, SCF president Air Vice Marshal (retd) AK Khandker said, “We will urge them (political party leaders) to take a stance against war criminals."
"We will also seek pledges from them that they will take steps to try the war criminals once they win the next general election," Khandker, also the deputy chief of the Liberation War, told The Daily Star last night
The SCF would request the political leaders to include the pledge in their respective election manifesto, he said.
Khandker said it must be made sure that war criminals are barred from participating in the next general election.
In its meetings, SCF will also inform the political party leaders that it will work against any electoral alliance comprising antiliberation war elements.
"If any political party forges an electoral alliance with war criminals and anti-liberation war elements, we shall urge the people not to vote for them," the SCF president said.
SCF has so far communicated with Communist Party of Bangladesh, Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal, Workers Party, Gono Forum and Bangladesh Kalyan Party for the talks, SCF sources said.
Earlier, SCF exchanged views with around 150 socio cultural and different other organisations in the capital in a bid to mobilise public support to try the war criminals
Since its inception in October last year, the Sector Commanders' Forum has been vocal in their demands for trying war criminals and a ban on anti-liberation forces, such as Jamaat-e-Islami, from the national polls.