The New Nation - Internet Edition

BSS, Dhaka

Speakers at a roundtable yesterday said the trial of war criminals could take place even after a hundred years.

But correct information and data were essential for holding the trial they said speaking at a roundtable, "Trial of war criminals of 1971: A demand of the time," organised by Sammilita Sangskritik Jote (SSJ) at the conference room of the National Press Club.

Chaired by SSJ prsident Nasir Uddin Yussuf Bachchu, the roundtable was addressed by, among others, Workers Party chief Rashed Khan Menon, CPB president Manzurul Ahsan Khan, Sector Commanders' Forum convener Air Vice Marshal (retired) A K Khandaker, Awami League leader and play actor Asaduzzaman Noor, sector commander Lieutenant Colonel (retired) Abu Osman Chowdhury, Peshajibi Sammilito Parishad (PSP) convener A A M S Arefin Siddiqui, PSP member secretary Dr Qamrul Hasan, AL women affairs Secretary Dr Dipu Moni, poetry reader Hasan Arif and singer Fakir Alamgir.

Play actor Mamunur Rashid presented the keynote paper, "Trial of war criminals: Always the most contemporary demand."

Supporting the Sector Commanders' Forum's movement against the war criminals Rashed Khan Menon said, a joint conspiracy hatched at home and abroad was delaying the trial of the war criminals.

He urged the caretaker government to appoint a commission to prioritise the issue of the trial of the war criminals.