bdnews24.com:
A former Pakistan military officer has described Bangladesh’s ongoing war crimes trial a “sham” and said killings, rapes and other human rights violations in the 1971 “political conflict” followed from “internal strife” among Bengali groups.
Writing in the ‘Pakistan Observer’, retired Colonel M Hanif also questioned the death of three million people and the rape of 200,000 women in 1971, dismissing them as ‘hearsay’ propogated by the Awami League.
He called Bangladesh’s 1971 war of independence as “Indian engineered separatist struggle” and said India wants “tense
relations” between AL and BNP since “Pakistan-Bangladesh relations have been good” in times of BNP governments in Bangladesh.
Hanif now works for the Islamabad Policy Research Institute’ (IPRI), which is known to be close to the Pakistani military establishment.
Headlined “Sham trials in Bangladesh”, Hanif’s article apparently praises BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia for going “so far as to publicly reject the legitimacy of tribunals”.
Citing observations of different global organisations, Hanif observes that the institutional design of the international crimes tribunals “itself creates much suspicion”.
But what would stun many is Hanif’s attempt to portray the Pakistan army as innocent-he claims in the article that it remains “conscious of human rights by not harming civilians or innocent people” in any war.
A former Pakistan military officer has described Bangladesh’s ongoing war crimes trial a “sham” and said killings, rapes and other human rights violations in the 1971 “political conflict” followed from “internal strife” among Bengali groups.
Writing in the ‘Pakistan Observer’, retired Colonel M Hanif also questioned the death of three million people and the rape of 200,000 women in 1971, dismissing them as ‘hearsay’ propogated by the Awami League.
He called Bangladesh’s 1971 war of independence as “Indian engineered separatist struggle” and said India wants “tense
relations” between AL and BNP since “Pakistan-Bangladesh relations have been good” in times of BNP governments in Bangladesh.
Hanif now works for the Islamabad Policy Research Institute’ (IPRI), which is known to be close to the Pakistani military establishment.
Headlined “Sham trials in Bangladesh”, Hanif’s article apparently praises BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia for going “so far as to publicly reject the legitimacy of tribunals”.
Citing observations of different global organisations, Hanif observes that the institutional design of the international crimes tribunals “itself creates much suspicion”.
But what would stun many is Hanif’s attempt to portray the Pakistan army as innocent-he claims in the article that it remains “conscious of human rights by not harming civilians or innocent people” in any war.
