The New Nation - Internet Edition

Staff Reporter

Speakers at a press conference demanded of the government to ensure that the war criminals could not be given the right of vote and election.

They demanded this at a press conference at the Dhaka Reporters unity yesterday organised by Bangabandhu Smriti Parishad. Former MP Panna Kaisar, Dr Nirmal Kanti, Dipak Kumar Nag and Abdul Haque Sabuj, among others, were present.

They said meetings and rallies should be held against the religion-based politics of Jamaat-e-islami and other parties of Razakers and Al-badrs.

Speakers at the press conference said the war criminals are tried in every country of the world and no country allows the war criminals to participate in the elections. Nazis are banned form participating in German politics.

They said though Jamaat was a political party of the war criminals it not only participated in elections but also came into power.

They urged the government to search the files of the cases under the Collaborators Act to collect proofs and documents of the crimes of the war criminals and try them forming a special tribunal under international crimes tribunal act 1973.

The speakers also urged the Government to include chapters of war crimes in the text books and boycott them socially.