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BD Government to seek Evidence from Pakistan and USA - War Crime 1971
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We will try war criminals of our country: Dipu
Were not going to try 195 Pak war criminals: Hasan
Saturday May 30 2009 00:43:05 AM BDT
Foreign Minister Dipu Moni yesterday said that the Pakistan has agreed to hold further talks on the issue of the trial of the war criminals of the country's Liberation War.(The Independent )
Addressing a press briefing she also claimed that the Mayanmar authority had responded positively about taking back the Rohingya refugees.
The foreign minister said that she met Pakistan's state minister for foreign affairs Nawabzada Malik Ahmad Khan on the sidelines of the OIC foreign ministers' meeting in Damascus and urged Islamabad to try the Pakistani war criminals to meet international obligation.
I urged the Pakistan Minister to try their war criminals as international laws on crime against humanity is also obligatory for Pakistan and in response the Pak minister told me to have further talks on it, Dr Dipu Moni added.
"I told the Pakistani foreign minister that it will not be a victor's justice, while we are holding the trial of the war criminals of our country" as Islamabad appeared to have some concerns about the move, she said referring to her talks with Shah Mehmood Qureshi.
Asked what she thought Pakistan should be concerned with the trial process, Moni said possibly Islamabad feared the trial process could retrieve many bitter issues exposing it to fresh embarrassments.
She said Syrian counterpart Walid al-Muallem told her during bilateral talks called the Dhaka's stance on the trial was a "fair position" adding, "you should go ahead".
Moni said earlier, during a private visit to London last week, Commonwealth Secretary General Kamalesh Sarkar also extended organiztion's support and offered assistance in trying the "crimes against humanity".
The minister said Dhaka expected Islamabad to bring the 1971 war criminals of their country to expose to justice also in line with their own obligation to their domestic and international laws, though "it is a matter of theirs".
Foreign minister Dipu Moni said she met many foreign leaders to mobilise international support for the government move to hold war crimes trial.
The minister started her visit in the second week of April and had talks with the leaders of several countries of Asia, Europe and Africa up to May 28 on many issues including the trial.
"As the trial of war criminals has come to be a big issue now, it is natural there will be campaigns in favour of or against it," she said.
She said Bangladesh must try the war criminals to meet its international legal obligation against crime against humanity and huge domestic support for the trial.
Dipu Moni said no country including the US, China and Saudi Arabia-that had initially refused to recognise Bangladesh's birth-would support the war criminals involved in the genocide, rape, arson and torture in the bloody nine-month war of independence from Pakistan.
The minister said it appeared to her from the discussions with the Pakistani junior foreign minister that Islamabad was trying to shelve the issue to avert souring its relations with Bangladesh.
The United Nations earlier offered its supports for the trial of "crimes against humanity" as sought earlier by the new government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina with UNDP country representative in Dhaka saying the UN would offer all assistance to ensure the trials met international standards.
The London-based global rights watchdog Amnesty International appreciated the UN offer and named four of its war crime experts to assist the government in carrying out the trial.
On this question State Minister for Foreign Affairs Hasan Mahmud said the trial of war criminals is an internal matter of Bangladesh and "it is our national and international obligations."
Explaining the Pakistan 's concern, he said Pakistan army was involved in it and they might have confusion but "we are not going to try them (195 Pakistani war criminals.)"
Hasan said trial of the war criminals is an election commitment of Awami League and the government is collecting data and information from various countries including Cambodia who held such trials.
About the the Rohingya issue she said that Myanmar leaders during her latest visit assured Bangladesh of taking the refugees back to their land.
She said that influx of Rohingya refugees was not a new phenomenon and the Arakan people kept intruding into Bangladesh and a large number of them were staying outside the UNHCR camps.
"The refugee influx will not stop unless there is qualitative change in Myanmar's attitude towards Arakan people", the minister said.
She mentioned that in the last Bali conference on trafficking in April, when Myanmar claimed that the Rohigyas were Bangladeshis, she presented the historical facts and necessary evidence on Rohingyas, their origin in Myanmar at the conference to convince the international community.
During her Myanmar visit on May 16-17, leaders of Myanmar admitted that and agreed to take them back, she said adding that there were some progress about it.
She said the Myanmar government sought a list from Dhaka on the number of Rohingyas living in Bangladesh as part of the repatriation process.
"We will provide the list to Yangon in consultation with UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHRC) and International Organisation for Migration (IOM),' she told reporters, responding to a query.
"If there is no qualitative change in the place they come from, the influx would be continuing no matter how serious we are to resolve the crisis," said the foreign minister.
Responding to a question on the international concern regarding the extra-judicial killings by the law enforcers here, the foreign minister said that government did not support the extra judicial killings and wanted to end it but it could not be stopped overnight.
Asked whether the government has control over the law enforcing agencies as Dipu Moni said the culture of impunity cannot change overnight.
State Minister for Foreign Affairs Hasan Mahmud who was also present in the briefing said the government does not support extra-judicial killings and has already instructed the law enforcers in this respect.
http://newsfrombangladesh.net/view.php?hidRecord=266230
Were not going to try 195 Pak war criminals: Hasan
Saturday May 30 2009 00:43:05 AM BDT
Foreign Minister Dipu Moni yesterday said that the Pakistan has agreed to hold further talks on the issue of the trial of the war criminals of the country's Liberation War.(The Independent )
Addressing a press briefing she also claimed that the Mayanmar authority had responded positively about taking back the Rohingya refugees.
The foreign minister said that she met Pakistan's state minister for foreign affairs Nawabzada Malik Ahmad Khan on the sidelines of the OIC foreign ministers' meeting in Damascus and urged Islamabad to try the Pakistani war criminals to meet international obligation.
I urged the Pakistan Minister to try their war criminals as international laws on crime against humanity is also obligatory for Pakistan and in response the Pak minister told me to have further talks on it, Dr Dipu Moni added.
"I told the Pakistani foreign minister that it will not be a victor's justice, while we are holding the trial of the war criminals of our country" as Islamabad appeared to have some concerns about the move, she said referring to her talks with Shah Mehmood Qureshi.
Asked what she thought Pakistan should be concerned with the trial process, Moni said possibly Islamabad feared the trial process could retrieve many bitter issues exposing it to fresh embarrassments.
She said Syrian counterpart Walid al-Muallem told her during bilateral talks called the Dhaka's stance on the trial was a "fair position" adding, "you should go ahead".
Moni said earlier, during a private visit to London last week, Commonwealth Secretary General Kamalesh Sarkar also extended organiztion's support and offered assistance in trying the "crimes against humanity".
The minister said Dhaka expected Islamabad to bring the 1971 war criminals of their country to expose to justice also in line with their own obligation to their domestic and international laws, though "it is a matter of theirs".
Foreign minister Dipu Moni said she met many foreign leaders to mobilise international support for the government move to hold war crimes trial.
The minister started her visit in the second week of April and had talks with the leaders of several countries of Asia, Europe and Africa up to May 28 on many issues including the trial.
"As the trial of war criminals has come to be a big issue now, it is natural there will be campaigns in favour of or against it," she said.
She said Bangladesh must try the war criminals to meet its international legal obligation against crime against humanity and huge domestic support for the trial.
Dipu Moni said no country including the US, China and Saudi Arabia-that had initially refused to recognise Bangladesh's birth-would support the war criminals involved in the genocide, rape, arson and torture in the bloody nine-month war of independence from Pakistan.
The minister said it appeared to her from the discussions with the Pakistani junior foreign minister that Islamabad was trying to shelve the issue to avert souring its relations with Bangladesh.
The United Nations earlier offered its supports for the trial of "crimes against humanity" as sought earlier by the new government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina with UNDP country representative in Dhaka saying the UN would offer all assistance to ensure the trials met international standards.
The London-based global rights watchdog Amnesty International appreciated the UN offer and named four of its war crime experts to assist the government in carrying out the trial.
On this question State Minister for Foreign Affairs Hasan Mahmud said the trial of war criminals is an internal matter of Bangladesh and "it is our national and international obligations."
Explaining the Pakistan 's concern, he said Pakistan army was involved in it and they might have confusion but "we are not going to try them (195 Pakistani war criminals.)"
Hasan said trial of the war criminals is an election commitment of Awami League and the government is collecting data and information from various countries including Cambodia who held such trials.
About the the Rohingya issue she said that Myanmar leaders during her latest visit assured Bangladesh of taking the refugees back to their land.
She said that influx of Rohingya refugees was not a new phenomenon and the Arakan people kept intruding into Bangladesh and a large number of them were staying outside the UNHCR camps.
"The refugee influx will not stop unless there is qualitative change in Myanmar's attitude towards Arakan people", the minister said.
She mentioned that in the last Bali conference on trafficking in April, when Myanmar claimed that the Rohigyas were Bangladeshis, she presented the historical facts and necessary evidence on Rohingyas, their origin in Myanmar at the conference to convince the international community.
During her Myanmar visit on May 16-17, leaders of Myanmar admitted that and agreed to take them back, she said adding that there were some progress about it.
She said the Myanmar government sought a list from Dhaka on the number of Rohingyas living in Bangladesh as part of the repatriation process.
"We will provide the list to Yangon in consultation with UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHRC) and International Organisation for Migration (IOM),' she told reporters, responding to a query.
"If there is no qualitative change in the place they come from, the influx would be continuing no matter how serious we are to resolve the crisis," said the foreign minister.
Responding to a question on the international concern regarding the extra-judicial killings by the law enforcers here, the foreign minister said that government did not support the extra judicial killings and wanted to end it but it could not be stopped overnight.
Asked whether the government has control over the law enforcing agencies as Dipu Moni said the culture of impunity cannot change overnight.
State Minister for Foreign Affairs Hasan Mahmud who was also present in the briefing said the government does not support extra-judicial killings and has already instructed the law enforcers in this respect.
http://newsfrombangladesh.net/view.php?hidRecord=266230
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Awami league happen to be a India based party staging a show which will be flop. Unnecessary and waste of time and money that can be utilize to serve the needy people who doesn't give a **** about dead issue like 71 anymore.......But Awami being awami and nothing else but keeping this dead issue alive for dirty politics.
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Awami league is not a India based party, its BD based party which was elected by saner people of BD not once but many a times in BD's history; so stop crying like a baby over spilled milk. This is a distasteful post; the least you can do is honour your dead people who died during BD holocaust and give them justice. I am pretty sure that you would say the same thing about BDR massacre after a few years, why are you even bothering to trial those criminals, instead feed the money to poor.
There are saner people in BD who unlike you knows , shows and does something for their honored dead. Say i have seen your posts congratulating PA soldiers while battling terrorism, atleast show the same respect to your people.
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This is far more important to prosecute the BD people than ex PK army officer. Pakistan left BD accepting their defeat and some sort of justice had done through the war. But BD collaborator remianed untouched and were the most culprit and even far worse than Pakistani army.
There are some opinion to prosecute PK officer in absentia but not sure govt will pursue that or not. FM already mentioned that they will not.
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I agree the Bangladeshi if any who carried out the rape murder / loot first should be punished and the others can be named atleast.
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