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DU Correspondent

Speakers at a seminar said the young generation can conduct a campaign to make the society corruption free and free from war criminals.

They said democracy and communalism could not move together as they are enemy to each other. So the young generation has to be united to eradicate the problems that is also a threat to the country.

The government should give election as per its commitment because it is the only way to return democracy otherwise the people of the country will resist the government, they added.

They said this while addressing a seminar on "The role of young generation to build corruption, poverty, black money and war criminal free Bangladesh" organised by the United Young Professional Organisation at the National Press Club yesterday.

Presidium members of Bangladesh Awami League, Amir Hossain Amu, Babu Suranjit Sen Gupta, Joint Secretary General of BNP Gayeshar Chandra Roy and Former president of Dhaka University Teachers` Association Prof AAMS Arefin Siddique, among others, spoke at the programme.

Barrister Bashir Ahmed, former general secretary of Supreme Court Bar Association presented keynote paper in the seminar with Barrister Zakir Ahammad in the chair.

Awami League leader Amir Hossain Amu said the war criminals would have been brought under trial if the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman along with his family were not killed in 1975.

Raising a question, he said who released the war criminals in that time it has to be found out at first.

Babu Suranjit Sen Gupta condemned the activities of the Government as it presented the Awami League Chief Sheikh Hasina forcibly before the court despite her serious illness.

He urged the government to send the sheikh Hasina abroad for better treatment.

Gayeshar Chandra Roy said if they would have known know that the trial of war criminals would not be held they would not surrender their weapons after Liberation War.

"We want the trial of war criminals." It is now turned into a political slogan as the Sector Commanders, who are demanding the trial of war criminals, did not raise their voice when the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Ziaur Rahman were killed, said Gayeshar Roy.

He said why the sector commanders returned to the barrack without demanding the trial of war criminals.