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Bangladesh has to rethink the death penalty if authorities want international support in trying members of the previous regime, said Toby Cadman, special adviser to the chief prosecutor of the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT).

“For a number of states, particularly European states, there is a refusal to extradite or to provide evidence about proceedings [to countries] where the death penalty is maintained,” Cadman told journalists at a press briefing yesterday.

“That will have to be a discussion that the government will need to engage in about whether it is appropriate to maintain the death penalty in these proceedings.

“These proceedings will require the full assistance and support of the international community. I have discussed this with the United Nations, the UK and US embassies, and the European Union,” said Cadman.

Describing the aim of this new chapter in the country’s history as “towards justice, not retribution or revenge”, the legal expert said that while the ICT has made significant improvements to ensure Cadman

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