TUI RAZAKAR

Compiled By : Habib

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 anti-liberation-war elements socially and economically.

The announcement came after a view-exchange meeting between the SCF and the CPB, held at the forum’s central office at Banani in the city.

The meeting was the third in a series of discussions on the part of the SCF to talk political parties out of any alliance with war criminals ahead of the next parliamentary elections.

The SCF leaders told the meeting that they, along with other freedom fighters, would oppose the parties siding with the anti-liberation forces and urge people not to vote for them.

Ruling out any alliance with war criminals, the CPB asked the SCF to set up a data bank on war criminals and anti-liberation war elements.

“We consider crimes against humanity as the most heinous of all crimes. The rule of law would not be established in the country until war criminals are brought to justice,” CPB President Manzurul Ahsan Khan, who led a ten-member delegation of his party, told journalists after the meeting.

“We also gave our word to the sector commanders that we’ll try our level best to bring the war criminals to justice,” he said.

The CPB president said though two well-known war criminals — Motiur Rahman Nizami and Salauddin Quader Chowdhury — are behind bars now on corruption charges, the government is yet to try them for war crimes.

Maj Gen (retd) KM Shafiullah, Maj Gen (retd) CR Dutta, Maj Gen (retd) Amin Ahmed Chowdhury, Lt Col (retd) Abu Osman Chowdhury, Maj (retd) Rafiqul Islam, among other SCF leaders, were present at the meeting.