BSS, Dhaka :
Information Minister Hasanul Huq Inu, MP, said war criminals would be tried wherever they were found.
The minister said this on Monday while speaking as the chief guest at a meeting to mark “Taher Day” at the Dhaka University’s Teacher-Students’ Center (TSC).
The minister said the Mahajote government had the people’s mandate to try war criminals. Inu said that millions of people had sacrificed their lives for the freedom of the motherland but the Razakars of 1971, Mushatques of 1975 and General Zia who had hung Colonel Taher had subverted the country.
“And it was with those murderers of ’71,’75 and 21st August that Khaleda Zia was conspiring, once again, to usurp power. This conspiracy would be destroyed by the people,” he said. “The country was on the road of history of democracy with guidance from the Mahajote governmnt”, Inu said.
“We will not tolerate communalism, we will protect the Constitution and nobody would be above the law”, the information minister added.
Paying glorious tribute to Colonel Taher Inu said, he, through his great ideal and sacrifice would remain eternal. The country was headed for enlightened times, the minister said. ” The days of freedom fighters dying are over. It is time for the war criminals to die, ” he added.
The meeting was presided by president of the Taher Sangsad Comrade Haider Akbar Khan Rono and participated, among others, by Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister Rashed Khan Menon, Col. Taher’s wife Lutfa Taher, CPB president Comrade Mujahidul Islam Selim and general secretary of BSD Comrade Khalequzzaman.
Colonel Taher’s younger brother Professor Md Anwar Hossain presented the key-note paper titled “Trial of war criminals: Dangers of prolonging it.”
