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The Sector Commanders’ Forum (SCF) and the Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) yesterday said they would campaign against political parties forming electoral alliance with anti-liberation war forces.
They reiterated the demand for the trial of war criminals including detained Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Motiur Rahman Nizami and called on the people to boycott […]
Entries Tagged as '1971'
SCF, CPB to campaign against alliance with war criminals
June 8th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: 1971 · Corruption · Dhaka
Nizami as history knows
June 8th, 2008 · No Comments
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Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami, who enjoyed leniency of the past governments, is now at an isolated cell of Dhaka Central Jail thanks to the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) implicating him in the Gatco graft case that eventually led to his arrest on Sunday night.
Although there is […]
Tags: 1971 · Corruption · Dhaka
Islamic leaders seek Nizami’s punishment for war crimes
June 8th, 2008 · No Comments
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Representatives of the Islamic community of the country yesterday demanded punishment of Jamaat Ameer Matiur Rahman Nizami for war crimes he committed during the Liberation War.
The demand came at a meeting between a delegation of Islamic leaders and the Sector Commanders Forum (SCF) at the SCF office […]
Tags: 1971 · Corruption · Dhaka · History
No electoral alliance with anti-liberation elements, says AL
May 17th, 2008 · No Comments
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Staff Correspondent
Awami League (AL) yesterday announced it would not enter into any electoral alliance with the anti-Liberation War forces.
The announcement came after a view-exchange meeting with the Sector Commanders’ Forum (SCF), a platform of those who led the war in 11 sectors.
Held at the Forum’s central office at Banani, […]
Tags: 1971 · Corruption · Dhaka
Plea against ‘war criminals’
May 17th, 2008 · No Comments
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Published: Tuesday, 13 May, 2008, 05:25 AM Doha Time
Our Correspondent
DHAKA: The election commission (EC) has rejected a plea of 1971 liberation war commanders to bar ‘war criminals’ from contesting the ensuing parliamentary polls.
Chief election commissioner A T M Shamsul Huda said that data against ‘war criminals’ and anti-liberation forces […]
Tags: 1971 · Corruption · History
EC to collect records of war criminals’ trial
May 17th, 2008 · No Comments
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Staff Correspondent
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) ATM Shamsul Huda yesterday said the commission will collect records of war criminals’ trials under the now defunct collaborators act, in a bid to permanently disqualify war criminals from contesting in any election.
Between 1972 and 1975, 752 persons were convicted of war crimes […]
Tags: 1971 · Corruption · Dhaka · History
EC to collect records of war criminals’ trial
May 14th, 2008 · No Comments
compiled by : Habib
Staff Correspondent
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) ATM Shamsul Huda yesterday said the commission will collect records of war criminals’ trials under the now defunct collaborators act, in a bid to permanently disqualify war criminals from contesting in any election.
Between 1972 and 1975, 752 persons were convicted of war crimes and the government […]
Tags: 1971 · Corruption · Dhaka · History · Thoughts
War criminals of 1971: Time to take action
March 20th, 2008 · No Comments
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Dr. Abdul Momen
IT is highly misleading propaganda that Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s government pardoned all the war criminals. The facts show otherwise. In fact, Bangabandhu’s government started prosecuting the perpetrators of crimes against humanity or war criminals immediately after independence, and he also passed the Collaborators Act (1972) and the International Crime […]
Tags: 1971 · Corruption · Dhaka · History
B’desh not allowed Islamic parties ban
March 10th, 2008 · No Comments
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B’desh not allowed Islamic parties ban
Feb 28, 2008 10:59 PM
Bangladesh’s Election Commission has rejected calls by most political parties to ban groups using their Islamic identity to contest elections. The demand came as parties held a second round of talks with the commission to discuss preparations for parliamentary polls the country’s […]
Tags: 1971 · Corruption · Dhaka
Trial of war criminals
March 10th, 2008 · No Comments
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By The Numbers
Trial of war criminals
A.N.M. Nurul Haque
A sort of national consensus has developed recently for bringing the war criminals of the liberation war to justice. The Election Commission (EC), responding to the demand of the political parties, has announced that it will recommend to the caretaker government (CTG) to initiate steps […]

