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BNP Rally for SQ Chy

Diatribes against war tribunal

Staff Correspondent
Several BNP leaders yesterday made sneering comments about the war crimes tribunal for sentencing Salauddin Quader Chowdhury to death.
"On completion of the tenure of this government and parliament, Bangladesh will be ruled by Khaleda Zia and Tarique Rahman. Servile ministers and judges will not be allowed to move around freely. They will be made to run around in their birthday suits and brought to trial at the people's court," said Syed Moazzem Hossain Alai, chief of
Diatribes
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Jatiyatabadi Jubo Dal and a former BNP lawmaker.
The opposition leaders were addressing a rally at the capital's Suhrawardy Udyan in the afternoon. The city unit BNP organised the event protesting "the government plan to wipe out the opposition and destroy all democratic institutions."
International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Tuesday awarded capital punishment to BNP lawmaker SQ Chowdhury, a member of the party's standing committee, for committing war crimes, including genocide, during the Liberation War in 1971.
Soon after the verdict, BNP chief's adviser Khandaker Mahbub Hossain, also vice chairman of the Bangladesh Bar Council, said if voted to power, the BNP would try those involved in the war crimes trials.
Speaking in a similar vein, Mirza Abbas, member of the BNP standing committee, at the rally said, "The nation has not accepted the judgment .... If the verdict against Salauddin Quader is executed, the people involved with this [trial] will be charged with murder."
He added, "All the [war crimes] verdicts are questionable."
Senior BNP leaders Moudud Ahmed, Jamiruddin Sircar, Rafiqul Islam Mia, Mirza Abbas and Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, among others, were on the podium at that time.
"Once the national polls are held under a caretaker government, the rule of law will be established and Salauddin Quader Chowdhury and others who were put behind bars unjustly will be freed,” BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul said.
"We want to echo the voices of the family members of Salauddin Quader Chowdhury to say we want justice, "he added.
Referring to the leak of the draft verdict, Moudud said it had undermined the rule of law.
Addressing the rally, SQ Chowdhury's wife Farhat Quader Chowdhury thanked BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and senior leaders for standing by her husband and the family.
"Supporting the hartal yesterday [Wednesday], people of Chittagong regardless of party affiliations kept themselves to their houses. They proved that Salauddin Quader is not a war criminal," she claimed.
The Chittagong unit BNP enforced the hartal in the port city and also in Rangamati to protest the verdict.
Yesterday, senior leaders of the party reiterated that the trial against SQ Chowdhury was neither transparent nor upto international standards.CONTEMPT PLEA FILED AGAINST MAHBUB -- PAGE 20