Bangladesh Govt. dismisses UN claim on war criminals' hanging

The Government of Bangladesh has ruled out the claim by the United Nations that the trial of the war criminals was unfair, saying that the statement was disturbing.

According to the Daily Star, the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Tuesday called on Bangladesh to stop implementing death sentences awarded by the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) because of what it said was the fairness of the trials conducted by the court had been questioned.

While the international community has said the trial of atrocities committed more than four decades ago during the liberation war as an effort to end the culture of impunity in the country, some quarters are making sweeping, biased and unfounded comments, said the foreign affairs ministry in a press release.

 

The UN's statement had come in response to the execution of war criminals Salauddin Quader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and Chowdhury and Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed of the Jamaat-e-Islami.