Publicity and Publication Affairs Secretary of the ruling Awami League Dr Hasan Mahmud said the present government is firm to complete the trial of the war criminals.
“Not only those who are under trial for their alleged involvement in war crimes, trial of other war criminals who have been staying in the country will also be conducted,” he said.
Dr Hasan Mahmud said this on Tuesday while speaking at an anti-hartal rally in front of the Jatiya Press Club at Topkhana Road in the city.
Bangabandhu Sangskritik Jote (BSJ) organised the rally and formed a human-chain protesting hartal called by Jamaat and supporting the capital punishment to its leader Kamaruzzaman by the Appellate Division for committing crimes against humanity during the War of Liberation in 1971.
BSJ General Secretary Arun Sarker Rana presided over the rally, also addressed, among others, by Minister for Liberation War Affairs AKM Mozammel Huq, Awami League Central Working Committee member Sujit Roy Nandi, Dhaka City Awami League Joint General Secretary Haji Md Selim, Assistant Secretary of Awami League sub-committee Advocate Balaram Poddar and a leader of teachers’ association Shahjahan Alam Saju.
