Why Hasina does not want to follow international war crimes trial’s rule, regulation, procedure, why she does not want international observers to witness the proceedings? What she is afraid of? What she wants to hide? Dewan Monju Munshi, Freedom Fighter from SYLHETYT:07.11.14 An angry, foul mouth, sharp-tongued, inexperienced Foreign Minister & his cabinet colleagues, devoid of diplomatic or political nicety, protocol and procedure was not only insulting and abusing to every critic/political opponent, indigenous & foreigners alike but to demonstrate their loyalty, Hasina sycophancy and “BENGALI(?) PATRIOTISM” lashed out at Pakistan, USA, UNO, ARAB STATES, TURKEY, MUSLIM STATES, THE EU, E.U. AMBASSADOR IN DHAKA, BRITISH HOUSE OF LORDS, British ministers, American members of senate. HRW, Amnesty International, ICC, INTERNATIONAL JURISTS, Washington Post, Al Jazeera, The ECONOMIST, NEW YORK TIMES, DAWN, HRW, Barrister Bergman, a freelance journalist of international reputation, Barrister CADMAN , an expert on War crimes who participated in former Yogoslovakia’s war crimes trial (denied entry to Bangladesh to defend his clients, the accused) and any other who venture to criticise not the trial but the Rule, Regulation, Procedure, impartiality, competence of Hasina’s domestic Kangaroo court, manned A-Z by inexperienced, poorly educated party sycophants, political orators and rabble rousers. They used the most filthy, vulgar, rural Bengali vocabulary to hurl insult like an angry pack of Hyenas and abused the accused who were on the dock and not in a position to respond and without any protest from the political appointee “JUDGES”, some of whom were of Skype-gate conspiratorial notoriety and political appoointees. One could not even hide his political bias saying, “HOW ANYONE CAN MAKE THEM (JAMAAT LEADERS SENTENCED TO DEATH) MINISTER IN OUR INDEPENDENT BANGLADESH, IT WAS A SLAP ON THE FACE OF OUR FREEDOM STRUGGLE”!! It would not be long before Hasina appoint his the “ CHIEF JUSTICE OF BANGLADESH” To dupe the people home and abroad this politically motivated domestic Kangaroo court was named by the inexperienced Deputy Law minister as “INTERNATIONAL WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL”. It is as if to name Hasina’s unelected, self-appointed parliament as “WESTMINSTER PARLIAMENT” arguing that “ Like our parliament HALF OF THE MEMBERS OF BRITISH PARLIAMENT ARE UNELECTED and because we follow the Westminster system hence we can name our parliament as “WESTMINSTER PARLIAMENT or MOTHER OF PARLIAMENT”, said one Dhaka university teacher on condition of anonymity. Or naming a Bengali University as CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY OF BANGLADESH” saying that “WE FOLLOW THE SYLLABUS AND CURRICULA OF THE CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY, HENCE WE CAN NAME OUR UNIVERSITY AS CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY”! Not the trial itself but Hasina’s politically motivated , vindictive domestic Kangaroo court’s procedure, legal system and if it has been in accordance with the international law and the standard of the ICC and was it applied to her most powerful political opponent, mostly Islamic leaders and few Islamic minded main opposition, the BNP leaders has become the bone of contention home and abroad. Barring the International observers watching the procedure has naturally made this politically motivated, vindictive Kangaroo court not a trial but a circus. This is a real travesty of justice. Hasina’s Deputy Foreign minister was not telling the truth and the entire world knows that: (1) In 1971 Pakistan was not in “OCCUPATION OF BANGLADESH” as the government prosecution’s charge sheets have shown. Bangladesh did not exists in 1971. It was a politically motivated charge that ICC would not accept as real or truth. Hence the ICCwas barred from observing the trial and its proceedings. So, (2) Pakistan army was not an “ARMY OF OCCUPATION” in 1971. But a member of UNO’s independent country defending its solidarity and for Pakistan do supportbits arjmny that time does not constitute a WAR CRIME”. (3) Not only JAMAAT-E-ISLAMI but Muslim League, Khilafat-e-Rabbani, Nizam-e-Islam, Democratic League and millions upon millions of their supporters supported the unity of Pakistan and opposed Indian army invasion. (See newspaper pictures and report of 1971 that are available), (4) Bangla Deputy Foreign minister’s claim is right that “ MOST BANGLADESHIS WANTED THE TRIALS OF WAR CRIMINALS AND PEOPLE WHO COMMITTED CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY”. Jammat itself has time and time again stated that. So as well most of the members of the international community with the condition that ( ALL WAR CRIMINALS & PEOPLE WHO COMMITTED CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY (INCLUDING THE BIHARIS, WEST PAKISTANIS AND THE BENGALI MUSLIM SUPPORTERS OF PAKISTAN ) BE TRIED TOO UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW WITH INTERNATIONAL PARTICIPATION & THE COURT MUST BE IMPARTIAL, THAT WILL FULLY ABIDE BY THE INTERNATIONAL AS WELL AS ICC’S NORMS, STANDARD, LAWS, REGULATIONS, PROCEDURE. The question is why the Awami League oppose it? What theey have to hide, what tgheey aree afraid of. Justice MUST be done to the relatives of the victins as well as to the accused and their relatives. In Hasina’s Kangaroo court world has witnessed that the Investigative officers, their police companion, government prosecutors, Witneesses, Court protection forces, Judges, Governmeent lawyers, accusers, all were Awami Leaguers or communist/atheist suppoorters. All the victins were Muislims, not a single non Muslim has been charged with any war crimne or crime agaibnst humamity. Intermnational committee MUST find out what happened to the 38 mass graves where Pakistan army buried hundreads of Biharis, West Pakistanis. ! ----------------------------------- Bangladesh protests Pakistan home minister’s remarks on war crimes trials The Pakistani acting High Commissioner in Dhaka was summoned on Thursday by the foreign ministry to register Bangladesh’s strong protests over a senior minister’s remarks on the ongoing war crimes trials. Additional Foreign Secretary told acting High Commissioner Ahmed Hussain Dayo that Dhaka was disappointed with the “unwarranted and inappropriate” comments.He said the comments amounted to “directly interfering with the internal affairs of Bangladesh”. Pakistan Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan expressed his concern and reservation over Bangladesh awarding the death penalty to Jamaat-e-Islami chief Motiur Rahman Nizami. “Though what happens in Bangladesh is that country’s internal matter, yet Pakistan cannot remain divorced from references to 1971 and its aftermath,” Nisar said. “It is highly unfortunate that almost 45 years after those tragic chain of events, the Bangladeshi government still seems to be living in the past and totally ignoring the time tested virtue of forgive and forget,” he said. Nisar said he was perplexed by the fact that Bangladesh remains hell bent on digging up the graves of the past and reopening old wounds.This is the second time Dhaka has summoned Islamabad’s high commissioner in the course of the ongoing war crimes trials.Last December, the High Commissioner was summoned after Pakistan’s National Assembly adopted a resolution expressing concern over the hanging of Bangladesh’s war crimes convict Abdul Quader Molla. Bangladesh won independence from Pakistan in 1971 after nine months of gruesome war.The Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami had sided with Pakistan during the war.Pakistan Jamaat-e-Islami had opposed Molla’s trial and said he was hanged because “he was loyal to Pakistan and supported the Pakistani army during the 1971 war”.The foreign ministry said Dayo was “called to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and conveyed the disappointment of the Government of Bangladesh”.It said it protested the comments by “a senior and important Cabinet member of the Government of Pakistan regarding the recent verdict by the International Crimes Tribunal, Bangladesh (ICT-BD) without appreciating the true perspective”.The foreign ministry also advised lobbies in Pakistan not to meddle in Bangladesh’s affairs. “Vested quarters in Pakistan were advised to mind their own business and set their house in order instead of trying to interfere with Bangladesh’s domestic matters,” read the foreign ministry statement.The additional foreign secretary also pointed out that the trials had the support of the people of Bangladesh and the wider international community to break the tradition impunity shown for the crimes against humanity and genocide committed in 1971.“It was only through ensuring justice that the wounds and trauma inflicted by those crimes in our national psyche can be healed and put behind,” he added.About the demonstrations and provocative statements by the Jamaat-e-Islami in Pakistan, he stated that “Bangladesh expects that, as a friendly neighbour, Pakistan would refrain from such activities that may hurt the sentiments of the people of Bangladesh and offer misplaced sympathies for otherwise undeserving entities”.The Pakistan government was requested to take serious note of these issues.Source: Bd news24/bdchronicle | November 6, 2014 at 3:50 pm ============================================================================================================
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