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Jamaat's registration with EC to be violation of constitution

Says Supreme Court Bar president

Staff Correspondent
Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) President Barrister Shafique Ahmed yesterday said if Jamaat gets registration from the Election Commission (EC), it will be a violation of the country's law and constitution, and in that case they would go for legal battle.
At a seminar titled 'Electoral Reform. Constitution and Political Rights of War Criminals' at Bilia auditorium in the city he said Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh cannot be registered under any circumstances.
Supporting Barrister Shafique at the seminar organised by the Ekatturer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee (Committee to Eliminate the Killers and Collaborators of 1971), Justice Gholam Rabbani also said they would challenge it legally if Jamaat is given registration.
"According to Special Powers Act 1974, no party based on religion can carry out their activities in the country'. As Jamaat is a religionbased communal party it not only should be barred from getting registration, but also its fund and other resources should be confiscated," he said.
On the issue of bringing the war criminals to book. Justice Rabbani said, "A list of war criminals was prepared soon after the liberation war in 1971. Later during the period of President Ziaur Rahman when a significant number of war criminals came back to the country, the Gono Commission led by Begum Sufia Kamal also prepared two lists of the war criminals."
"So the trial of tire war criminals could take place easily as per these lists if we can enact an act for trying them, because it is mentioned in the Clause 47(3) of the constitution that if a law is enacted regarding the
trial of the war criminals, nobody has the right to challenge it," he added.
The speakers said a mass movement should be launched as democracy and good governance cannot be established until the war criminals arc tried.
They also demanded trial of the war criminals under the Special TYial Tribunal.
"It is a tragedy for us who have lost their near and dear ones in the liberation war to live with the war criminals since last 36 years," said Shyamoli Nasreen, wife of a freedom fighter.
The list of the war criminals should be prepared within a month by forming a War Crimes Commission and then the trial should begin immediately," said Prof Ajay Roy, president of Human Rights Congress for Bangladeshi Minorities.
While reading out the concept paper journalist and acting presi-
dent of the Committee Shahriar Kabir said Jamaat and organisations alike not only stood against the liberation war, but also were dead against the existence of sovereign Bangladesh.
“Though the caretaker government is saying that the war criminals won't be allowed to contest in the election, they are yet to take any initiative to identify the war criminals," he said, adding that the war criminals should not be allowed to carry out political activities in the country.
He said if any party makes alliance with the war criminals or reaches an electoral understanding with them, then it should be boycotted.
Prof Panna Kaisar, President of Dhaka District Lawyers' Association Khandaker Abdul Mannan, women leader Ayesha Khanam, and Prof Kazi Farook also spoke on the occasion.