Farce must stop now!

[Zabaniyah]

Linking Israel with Jamat is funny enough!! Those jews are working because they are paid by Jamat to do so! Why they are paid? Because they have high influence on US govt... Thats it? Where does israel come from? That tiny country has enough problems around him!! West is against because of their link to Yunus, its only India thats backing Hasina!!

We shall see

 

[scholseys]

The main legal advisor, lead Western journalist and the WSJ (who are all Jewish) are all speaking in favour of the Jamaat ......

Barrister Toby Cadman (Jewish)

David Bergman - journalist (Jewish)

WSJ - (Jewish)

It is likely jamaat has hired a crisis management firm or a western pr firm,these crisis management are led by the jews, the good ones are and I have seen how connected they are, i used to work for McKan Erickson. They are also backed by the west, the last 30 days their pr in the west has been nothing but fabulous.

 

[TopCat]

Ok so let us examine who all are in South Asia

1. India- Doesnt need BD for South East Asia. We have a land boundary with Myanmar to make a road.

2. Pakistan- Either has to go through India or China or Sea. Road with China is currently not an all weather road and road through India is not a possibility. Hence a sea route.

3. Nepal and Bhutan- Too insignificant to reap any benefit out of that road.

4. Sri-Lanka- Doesnt need any road.


So in nutshell...there is nothing strategic about road connecting South Asia and South East Asia.

BD is the most important country in the South Asia. Linking BD means 50% done. The rest can be linked as the progresses including India. A prosperous and peaceful India is in our interest.

 

[jaunty]

Wonder why the whole world is after a tiny swampland or is it just Napoleon complex of the swamplanders?

 

[idune]

Ok so let us examine who all are in South Asia

1. India- Doesnt need BD for South East Asia. We have a land boundary with Myanmar to make a road.

Indian link to SE Asia is through mountainous region, thousands of km MORE road to travel and not to mention infested with freedom struggle. Rest of the world is not fool to fall for that indian trap; india is connected. Even indian govt realizes that in heart and try to gain transit access using interference.

 

[scholseys]

Wonder why the whole world is after a tiny swampland or is it just Napoleon complex of the swamplanders?

Without the transit your northeast will fall behind the rest of India.

 

[ares]

Without the transit your northeast will fall behind the rest of India.

Transit deal is a very minor thing for big country such as India.

Yes transit will save Indians some money on transporting goods to North East part of India, but it is nothing that India can not do without or hasn't already done without. Bangladeshis should not give themselves a brain aneurysm over it.. thinking they are center of the world.
As India and Bangladesh have enjoyed..a good relationship in the past..this deal would be 'good to have' but it is not a 'must have'.

I was surprised, when Bangladesh linked the transit deal to inking the river sharing treaty..a classic rookie mistake.

Implication of such an interlinking would be, if tomorrow some Bangladeshi govt decided to stop the transit of Indian goods through Bangladesh..Indian govt will respond by revoking the river sharing treaty..Now India can survive without transit but can Bangladesh survive without water?

Those who happen to believe Bangladesh happens to be most strategically placed or most important country in South Asia are the people who's nationalism has turned them into unequivocal idiots.

 

[technistat]

Indian link to SE Asia is through mountainous region, thousands of km MORE road to travel and not to mention infested with freedom struggle. Rest of the world is not fool to fall for that indian trap; india is connected. Even indian govt realizes that in heart and try to gain transit access using interference.

India already has pretty good trading relations with South East Asia, through the North East. While transit is something that would sve us some money, it is hardly as important an issue in Indian agenda as you make it out to be.

India is the largest market for Burmese exports, buying about USD 220 million worth of goods in 2000; India's exports to Burma stood at USD 75.36 million.[1] India is Burma’s 4th largest trading partner after Thailand, China and Singapore, and second largest export market after Thailand, absorbing 25 percent of its total exports.[5] India is also the seventh most important source of Burma’s imports. The governments of India and Burma had set a target of achieving $1 billion and bilateral trade reached USD 650 million U.S. dollars by 2006.[5] The Indian government has worked to extend air, land and sea routes to strengthen trade links with Myanmar and establish a gas pipeline.[3][5] While the involvement of India's private sector has been low and growing at a slow pace, both governments are proceeding to enhance cooperation in agriculture, telecommunications, information technology, steel, oil, natural gas, hydrocarbons and food processing.[3][5] The bilateral border trade agreement of 1994 provides for border trade to be carried out from three designated border points, one each in Manipur, Mizoram and Nagaland.[5]

On February 13, 2001 India and Burma inaugurated a major 160 kilometre highway, called the Indo-Myanmar Friendship Road, built mainly by the Indian Army's Border Roads Organisation and aimed to provide a major strategic and commercial transport route connecting North-East India which connects South Asia with Southeast Asia.[1]

India and Myanmar have agreed to a 4-lane, 3200 km triangular highway connecting India, Myanmar and Thailand. The route, which is expected to be completed in 2016, will run from India's northeastern states into Myanmar, where over 1,600 km of roads will be built or improved. The first phase connecting Guwahati to Mandalay is set to complete by 2016. This will eventually be extended to Cambodia and Vietnam. This is aimed at creating a new economic zone ranging from Kolkata on the Bay of Bengal to Ho Chi Minh City on the South China Sea.[6]

 

[idune]

India already has pretty good trading relations with South East Asia, through the North East. While transit is something that would sve us some money, it is hardly as important an issue in Indian agenda as you make it out to be.

Trading is not point of discussion. Discussion is Bangladesh geo strategic importance as it connects South East Asia with South Asia in more meaningful way. Indian connectivity is not viable and feasible. Yes, indian can conduct meaningful trade using sea lane but lacks viable land connectivity dimension. At any case, even without india into consideration, Bangladesh market, proximity, location and future potential makes it attractive proposition for any game - be that pivot, geo strategic contention, trade route, effective watch over indian ocean region. Indians can fry this reality any way they want but taste will always be bitter.

 

[technistat]

Trading is not point of discussion.

Yes trading is the point of discussion, because thats what the transit is about/for, that you were talking about.

Discussion is Bangladesh geo strategic importance as it connects South East Asia with South Asia in more meaningful way.

What way is that?

Indian connectivity is not viable and feasible.

The last 65 years, we have managed more than fine without you.

Yes, indian can conduct meaningful trade using sea lane but lacks viable land connectivity dimension.

Agreed (and thats what I said), but its not a major issue. Land routes are used for trading by going through NE India as we speak, and no BD is used. Things as they stand between India and SE Asia are going fine as they are. Land connectivity through BD would make it better, but its not something we are going to lose sleep over.

At any case, even without india into consideration,

Read your previous post again, you talked about India and transit route, which I replied to

Bangladesh market, proximity, location and future potential makes it attractive proposition for any game - be that pivot, geo strategic contention, trade route, effective watch over indian ocean region.

Current reality does not seem to reflect this.

Indians can fry this reality any way they want but taste will always be bitter.

What reality would that be?

 

[M_Saint]

Bangladesh War-Crime Tribunal Bogs Down
Government Under Fire for Alleged Interference in Process Intended to Heal War-Crime Rifts

Bangladesh War-Crime Tribunal Bogs Down - WSJ.com

I.E. Since I'm not a subscriber, Bengali version as following is my only reach...



ওয়াল স্ট্রিট জার্নালের প্রতিবেদন : যুদ্ধাপরাধ বিচারের বিশ্বাসযোগ্যতা নিয়ে সন্দেহের সৃষ্টি হয়েছে : আন্তর্জাতিক হস্তক্ষেপ কামনা, আইসিসিতে যাওয়ার পরামর্শ
ডেস্ক রিপোর্ট

বাংলাদেশের যুদ্ধাপরাধ ট্রাইব্যুনালের ‘বিচার প্রক্রিয়ার বিশ্বাসযোগ্যতা নিয়ে সন্দেহের সৃষ্টি হয়েছে’ বলে মন্তব্য করে যুক্তরাষ্ট্রের সর্বাধিক প্রচারিত দৈনিক ওয়াল স্ট্রিট জার্নাল বলেছে, আন্তর্জাতিক সম্প্রদায়কে পুনঃনিশ্চিত করতে হবে, আন্তর্জাতিক মান বজায় রেখে যুদ্ধাপরাধ মামলার বিচারকাজ পরিচালনা করা হচ্ছে।
ট্রাইব্যুনালের পদত্যাগী বিচারপতি নিজামুল হক ও ঘাতক দালাল নির্মূল কমিটি (ঘাদানি&#2453-এর তাত্ত্বিক নেতা বেলজিয়াম প্রবাসী আহমেদ জিয়া-উদ্দিনের মধ্যকার কথোপকথনের ওপর প্রকাশিত এক রিপোর্টে এসব মন্তব্য করা হয়েছে। গতকাল ‘বাংলাদেশ ওয়ার-ক্রাইম ট্রাইব্যুনাল বগস ডাউন বাংলাদেশে যুদ্ধাপরাধ ট্রাইব্যুনালের অচলাবস্থা’ শিরোনামে প্রকাশিত এক দীর্ঘ প্রতিবেদনে বলা হয়েছে, ওই কথোপকথনের পর এই বিতর্ক দেখা দিয়েছে যে বাংলাদেশের মতো উন্নয়নশীল কোনো দেশ নিরপেক্ষভাবে যুদ্ধাপরাধের বিচার করতে পারে কিনা অথবা তাদের আন্তর্জাতিক সংস্থা যেমন হেগের আন্তর্জাতিক অপরাধ আদালতে (আইসিস&#2495 যাওয়া উচিত কিনা।
২৫ লাখেরও বেশি প্রচার সংখ্যার ওই দৈনিকটির প্রতিবেদনে বলা হয়, যুদ্ধাপরাধ ট্রাইব্যুনালে রাজনৈতিক হস্তক্ষেপ নিয়ে বাংলাদেশ সরকার বিরোধী দল ও মানবাধিকার সংগঠনগুলোর কাছ থেকে ক্রমবর্ধমান চাপের মুখে রয়েছে। ট্রাইব্যুনালকে নিয়ে যে বিতর্ক তৈরি হয়েছে তাতে বিচার প্রক্রিয়ার বিশ্বাসযোগ্যতা নিয়ে সন্দেহের সৃষ্টি হয়েছে। এতে বিচার পথচ্যুত হতে পারে এবং রাজনৈতিক দ্বন্দ্ব আরও প্রকট হতে পারে।
ট্রাইব্যুনালের প্রথম মামলা তথা জামায়াত নেতা দেলাওয়ার হোসাইন সাঈদীর মামলার রায় চলতি মাসে হওয়ার কথা থাকলেও হস্তক্ষেপের অভিযোগের পর এখন এই মামলাটি নিয়ে বিশৃঙ্খলা দেখা দিয়েছে।
বাংলাদেশ সরকার ওয়াদা করেছিল তারা আন্তর্জাতিক মান বজায় রেখে ট্রাইব্যুনালের বিচারকাজ সম্পন্ন করবে। কিন্তু বাংলাদেশের বিরোধী দলগুলো অভিযোগ করেছে, বিচারপ্রক্রিয়াকে সরকার রাজনীতিকীকরণ করেছে। যে জ ১০ জনের বিচার হচ্ছে, তাদের প্রায় সবাই বিএনপির মিত্র ইসলামপন্থী রাজনৈতিক দল জামায়াতের নেতা।
তবে অভিযোগ অস্বীকার করে বুধবার আইনমন্ত্রী শফিক আহমেদ বলেছেন, ‘রাজনৈতিক কারণে আমরা কারও বিচার করছি না। আমরা গণহত্যার জন্য তাদের বিচার করছি। এটা সমগ্র বিশ্বের জন্য একটি মডেল হবে।’
ট্রাইব্যুনাল পক্ষপাতদুষ্ট বলে সরকার বিরোধীদের অভিযোগের ভিত্তি হলো যুদ্ধাপরাধ ট্রাইব্যুনালের সাবেক চেয়ারম্যান বিচারপতি নিজামুল হক ও বেলজিয়াম প্রবাসী আইনজীবী আহমেদ জিয়াউদ্দিনের মধ্যকার দীর্ঘ কথোপকথন। গত আগস্ট থেকে অক্টোবরের মধ্যে অনুষ্ঠিত ছয়টি কথোপকথনের অনুলিপি পর্যালোচনা করে দেখেছে ওয়াল স্ট্রিট জার্নাল । তাদের কেউই এই কথোপকথনের নির্ভুলতা নিয়ে মন্তব্য করেননি। তাদের মন্তব্য নেয়ার চেষ্টা করেও পাওয়া যায়নি।
উল্লেখ্য, ওই চাঞ্চল্যকর কথোপকথনের ওপর ওয়াল স্ট্রিট জার্নালে অনেক তথ্য পরিবেশন করা হয়েছে। তবে আদালতের নিষেধাজ্ঞার কারণে সেসব অংশ এখানে প্রকাশ করা সম্ভব হলো না।
প্রতিবেদনে বলা হয়, যুদ্ধাপরাধের দায়ে অভিযুক্ত ১০ জনের বিচার নতুন করে শুরুর জন্য তাদের আইনজীবীরা ট্রাইব্যুনালে আবেদন করেছেন। আগামী সপ্তাহে এ ব্যাপারে আদেশ হতে পারে।
বিএনপি নেতা ও বরেণ্য মুক্তিযোদ্ধা শমসের মবিন চৌধুরী ওয়াল স্ট্রিট জার্নালকে বলেন, ‘ওই কথোপকথনে এটা প্রমাণিত যে, ওই যুদ্ধাপরাধ ট্রাইব্যুনাল স্বাধীন নয় এবং তা ভেঙে দেয়া উচিত। তিনি বলেন, ‘ক্ষমতাসীন আওয়ামী লীগের অনেকে ১৯৭১ সালে যুদ্ধাপরাধের সঙ্গে জড়িত ছিলেন। কিন্তু তাদের বিচার হচ্ছে না। এটা হচ্ছে একটা রাজনৈতিক বিচার। ’
ওই কথোপকথনে এই বিতর্ক দেখা দিয়েছে, বাংলাদেশের মতো উন্নয়নশীল কোনো দেশ নিরপেক্ষভাবে যুদ্ধাপরাধের বিচার করতে পারে কিনা অথবা তাদের আন্তর্জাতিক সংস্থা যেমন হেগের আন্তর্জাতিক অপরাধ আদালতে (আইসিস&#2495 যাওয়া উচিত কিনা।
প্রতিবেদনে বলা হয়, কম্বোডিয়ায় গত শতাব্দীর সত্তরের দশকে খেমারুজদের হাতে লাখ লাখ লোক নিহত হলেও জাতিসংঘ সমর্থিত ট্রাইব্যুনাল বছরের পর বছর ধরে বিচার চালিয়ে মাত্র এক জনকে শাস্তি দিয়েছে। মানবাধিকার সংগঠনগুলো সেখানে রাজনৈতিক হস্তক্ষেপের অভিযোগ করেছিল।
বাংলাদেশ সরকার দেখাতে চেয়েছিল তারা আন্তর্জাতিক মান বজায় রেখে বিচার করতে পারে। তবে যুক্তরাষ্ট্রের যুদ্ধাপরাধ বিষয়ক অ্যাম্বাসেডর অ্যাট লার্জ স্টিফেন র্যাপ বলেছেন, তিনি যেসব সুপারিশ করেছিলেন তাকে উপেক্ষা করা হয়েছে। তিনি যেসব সুপারিশ করেছিলেন তার মধ্যে একটি ছিল সাক্ষীদের সুরক্ষা। তবে আইনমন্ত্রী শফিক আহমেদ বলেছেন, র্যাপের সমালোচনা সঠিক নয় এবং সাক্ষীরা প্রয়োজনীয় সুরক্ষা পাচ্ছেন।
(এখানে স্মরণ করা যেতে পারে যে, বরেণ্য আলেম মাওলানা দেলাওয়ার হোসাইন সাঈদীর পক্ষে সাক্ষ্য দিতে আসায় গত ৫ নভেম্বর ট্রাইব্যুনালের গেট থেকে সুখরঞ্জন বালীকে অপহরণ করেছে সরকারের নিরাপত্তা বাহিনী। তার ভাগ্যে কী ঘটেছে তা জানা যায়নি&#2404
প্রতিবেদনে বলা হয়, নিউইয়র্ক-ভিত্তিক মানবাধিকার সংগঠন হিউম্যান রাইটস ওয়াচ মাওলানা সাঈদীর বিচার ফের শুরু করার আহ্বান জানিয়েছে। এতে আরও বলা হয়, যুদ্ধাপরাধ ট্রাইব্যুনাল গত সপ্তাহে ওই কথোপকথন প্রকাশের ক্ষেত্রে সংবাদ মাধ্যমের ওপর নিষেধাজ্ঞা আরোপ করেছে। ওই কথোপকথন প্রকাশের পর আমার দেশ সম্পাদক মাহমুদুর রহমান গ্রেফতারের আশঙ্কা নিয়ে গত সাতদিন নিজ কার্যালয়ে অবরুদ্ধ হয়ে আছেন।

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[Zabaniyah]

Who the hell is going to pay $7 billion for all that transit infrastructure?

 

[Zabaniyah]

Bangladesh War-Crime Tribunal Bogs Down
Government Under Fire for Alleged Interference in Process Intended to Heal War-Crime Rifts

Bangladesh War-Crime Tribunal Bogs Down - WSJ.com

I.E. Since I'm not a subscriber, Bengali version as following is my only reach...

December 20, 2012, 4:35 p.m. ET
By TOM WRIGHT

Bangladesh's government is facing mounting pressure from opposition parties and human-rights groups over alleged political interference at a war-crimes tribunal intended to heal four-decade-old rifts.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's government set up the International Crimes Tribunal two years ago to investigate human-rights abuses committed during a civil war that led to Bangladesh's independence in 1971.

The government promised that the tribunal, which has the power to hand down death sentences, would adhere to international standards. But Bangladesh's opposition parties claim the government has politicized the process. Most of the 10 people on trial are members of Jamaat-e-Islami, an Islamist political party allied with the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party.

The controversy around the tribunal has sown doubt around the credibility of the process, threatening to derail it and deepen political rifts rather than provide the intended closure to the civil-war turmoil in which hundreds of thousands died, many killed by Islamist militia who opposed Bangladesh, then part of Pakistan, becoming a separate country.

The issue is coming to a head as the first case—against Delwar Hossain Sayeedi, a Jamaat-e-Islami leader—was expected to conclude this month. The case now appears to have been thrown in disarray amid the allegations of interference.

Supporters of the trials say Bangladesh, one of the world's poorest and most politically unstable nations, needs a locally conducted process to bring justice to victims' families.

Prime Minister Hasina earlier this month said in a speech: "We will certainly complete the trial of the war criminals to free the nation from stigma," according to the state-run news service.

The government, led by Ms. Hasina's Awami League, maintains the trials are fair. "We're not going to try anyone for political reasons," said Shafique Ahmed, Bangladesh's law minister, in an interview Wednesday. "We're going to try them for genocide. It will be a model for the entire world."

The government's opponents have based their claims that the trials are biased on a series of conversations that appear to be between the former chairman of the original tribunal, Mohammed Nizamul Huq, and a Bangladeshi human-rights lawyer based in Brussels, Ahmed Ziauddin. (A second tribunal to hear cases has since been established.)

The Wall Street Journal reviewed copies of transcripts of six conversations purported to be between Mr. Huq and Mr. Ziauddin carried out over Skype between August and October. The contents of the conversations have also been reprinted in transcripts by a Bangladeshi newspaper and are available online.

Neither man has publicly commented on the authenticity of the conversation transcripts. Neither could be reached for comment.

Mr. Huq resigned last week from the tribunal but remains a Supreme Court judge. In a statement, released through the Law Ministry, he denied wrongdoing and said he had stepped down to put an end to the controversy sparked by the transcripts.

The transcripts suggest that Mr. Ziauddin, despite having no formal, declared position in the war-crimes tribunal, plays a key role in the process, including helping to structure judgments and coordinating with the prosecution. The transcripts show the two men commenting about pressure from the government for a quick judgment.

In one conversation, in a recorded file labeled Sept. 10, the person identified as Mr. Ziauddin tells the person thought to be Mr. Huq that he is working on the "sketch" of how a judgment in the case of Mr. Sayeedi might look.

Mr. Sayeedi is charged with murder, rape and arson during the 1971 violence. He denies wrongdoing and has pleaded not guilty.

"We have prepared a rough structure" of Mr. Sayeedi's judgment, the person believed to be Mr. Ziauddin said, according to another recording. "Once the structure is ready, the writing will be easy."

That conversation is in a recorded file dated Oct. 14, more than a month before Mr. Sayeedi's defense team began its closing arguments at the tribunal. The verdict in Mr. Sayeedi's case, the first by the tribunal, had been expected later this month.

In other conversations, the two people grumble about pressure from unnamed government officials to deliver verdicts quickly. The tribunal's proceedings are supposed to be independent of such interference.The two men complain about how they cannot deliver 500-page verdicts as quickly as the government is demanding. "In no circumstances will it be possible to conform to their time frame," the person believed to be Mr. Ziauddin, the human-rights lawyer, said.

In another tape, in a recording labeled Sept. 11, the person identified as Mr. Ziauddin complains to the judge about a prosecutor who took action "without informing us."

Speaking about Mr. Ziauddin's role in the proceedings, Mr. Ahmed, the law minister, said the lawyer and the judge discussed only procedural matters and not information related to the merits of the case. He said the tribunal will press ahead with all its cases.

Mr. Ziauddin hasn't issued a public statement.

Defense lawyers for Ghulam Azam, Jamaat-e-Islami's former chief, another of the 10 defendants, on Wednesday filed for a retrial because of the alleged taped conversations. Lawyers for Mr. Sayeedi said they were also preparing to file for a retrial. The tribunal is expected to decide on the filings next week.

Shamsher Mubin Chowdhury, a leader with the opposition BNP, said the tapes show the war-crimes tribunal isn't independent and should be disbanded. Mr. Chowdhury claimed there are members of the ruling Awami League who committed crimes in 1971 but aren't facing charges.

"What is happening is a political trial," he said. Some lawyers not involved in the tribunal said that Mr. Ziauddin's alleged role in advising Mr. Huq might not have been improper but should have been disclosed to the court.

The transcripts have reignited a debate about whether developing countries like Bangladesh are able to conduct impartial war-crimes tribunals or should turn to international bodies such as the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

A U.N.-backed tribunal in Cambodia, where millions died during the Khmer Rouge regime of the 1970s, has sentenced only one person despite years of proceedings, with human-rights groups alleging political interference. The U.S. and others this year have criticized Sri Lanka's investigation into mass killings at the end of its 26-year civil war in 2009 for allegedly whitewashing abuses by government troops. The Sri Lankan government said its probe was fair.

In setting up the tribunal, Bangladesh's government was keen to show it could measure up to international standards, seeking the advice of international legal experts. But Stephen Rapp, the U.S. ambassador-at-large for war crimes, complained in November 2011 on a visit to Bangladesh that many of his earlier recommendations for the tribunal had been ignored.

Mr. Rapp raised concerns ranging from the need for better witness protection to the difficulty the public faced in attending the hearings. Mr. Ahmed, the law minister, said in the interview Wednesday that Mr. Rapp's criticisms were unfair and that witnesses have decent protection.

Human Rights Watch, the New-York based nonprofit group, last week called for a retrial in the case of Mr. Sayeedi, pointing out that after Mr. Huq's resignation none of the three judges on the panel now hearing his case have been present throughout the proceedings.

One of the judges was transferred in March to a different war-crimes trial. A second judge resigned in August, citing health problems. The government says the statute that governs the tribunal allows for the replacement of judges.

The tribunal last week issued an order banning newspapers from carrying the transcripts of the phone conversations or articles on the matter. Mahmudur Rahman, editor of Amar Desh, a Bangladeshi-language newspaper that published the transcripts, said Wednesday he has spent the past seven days in his office to avoid arrest.

Much of the taped conversation deals with the need to reassure the international community that the trials are being conducted by international standards.

"We cannot adopt the traditional Bangladeshi way here," the person identified as Mr. Ziauddin, the human-rights lawyer, says at one point. The World Justice Project, a U.S.-based nonprofit group, said in a report released last month that Bangladesh's courts are "extremely inefficient and corrupt."

But in another tape, in a recording labeled Sept. 6, the person thought to be Mr. Huq complains about a judge hearing a different case before the tribunal for being "too inclined to international standards." The judge, the other man replies, should be "removed from there."

The judge remains on the tribunal. In two conversations, the man believed to be Mr. Huq says other judges on the tribunal have been told to always agree with him in his role as chairman of the tribunal.

Mr. Ahmed, the law minister, said he didn't know whether the tribunal would hand down Mr. Sayeedi's verdict this month, as earlier expected. "It's difficult to say," he said.

 

[idune]

Bangladesh War-Crime Tribunal Bogs Down
Government Under Fire for Alleged Interference in Process Intended to Heal War-Crime Rifts

Bangladesh War-Crime Tribunal Bogs Down - WSJ.com

Entire Awami league leadership and its sidekicks in EU and US should be charged in ICC for premeditated murder of political opposition under guise of tribunal.

Turkey has considerable influence over some influential ME countries who has reach all the way to Washington, Paris and elsewhere in EU. Letter Turkey sent is the first step and if Turkey exercise extreme pressure things could be different.

All in all its a good thing in disguise that Indo awami nexus antagonizing rest of the world so that india can eliminate most vocal nationalist voice in Bangladesh in the name of farcical "war-crime" trial. All the while india itself let go of all "war criminals" by signing Simla agreement in 1972.

 

[mb444]

Awami League will fail as it has in everything they do. Bangladesh polity is diverse, it simply is not feasible to do things on a whim. This kangaroo court was set up politician reason without thought or foresight. It will fail dramatically. The nation needs has not been served and I fail to see what opening up an old wound really achieved.