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Try war criminals to build better society

Speakers tell discussion

Staff Correspondent
Speakers, including leaders of different religions, at a discussion yesterday said trial of war criminals is imperative to build a better society and also to ensure justice.
They called on the caretaker government to form a special tribunal in order to start the process of trying war criminals.
Ekatturer Ghatok Dalal Nirmul Committee, a forum for secular Bangladesh, organised the discussion at Bilia auditorium in the city styled 'Resist militancy fundamentalist and role of religious leaders in the movement of trying war criminals'.
Prof Kabir Chowdhury, president of central advisory committee of Ekatturer Ghatok Dalal Nirmul Committee, said the way antiliberation war forces are speaking against our liberation war is becoming intolerable.
"Trial of war criminals is a must to ensure justice in the society and to build a better society," the educationalist said, adding, “We will must try the war criminals in this land."
Prof Kabir Chowdhury called on the government to form a special tribunal to start the process of trying war criminals.
“You (caretaker government) are doing many things which were not supposed to do." he said, adding,” If you start the process of trying war criminals, we will pardon many of your wrongdoings."
Justice Gholam Rabbani said a pious man never commits injustice and cannot suppress people.
Prof Muntasir Mamum said Jamaat-e-Islami still believes in taking revenge and they are yet to deviate from their earlier position in 1971, adding that assassination of a few presidents after 1971 are also war crimes, but those are not
tried yet.
Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Bangladesh Missionary-in-Charge Abdul Awal Khan Chowdhury said war criminals of 1971 must be tried, as Islam never supports killing and repression against human beings what Jam aat-lsl ami leaders did in 1971.
Bangladesh Buddhist Kristi Prochar Sangha President Suddhananda Mahathero said religions should not be taken as tools to meet parochial interest of the vested groups.
Sujit Chakraborty of Dhakeshwari Mandir said war criminals who killed people during the liberation war must be tried.
Caritas Bangladesh Adviser Father Richard William Timm called on the religious leaders to work unitedly on the issue of trying the war criminals.
“We should raise our voices unitedly against militancy and all kinds of repression," he added.