Dhaka; The NHRC chairman on Monday termed the demand for the amendment of the constitution to disqualify war criminals for presidential clemency as logical.
“It is a logical demand from the young generation and Ekattorer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee,” said Mizanur Rahman, the chairman of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC).
Nirmul Committee, works for elimination of the killers and collaborators of 1971, has been demanding amendment to the constitution blocking the president clemency for the war criminals.
About the International Crimes (Tribunals) Act, 1973, amendment bill, he said the state and the defence got equal facilities with the passage of the amendment in parliament.
Now, the tribunal was elevated to the international status, he said.
The House on Sunday passed the amendment empowering the war crimes tribunals to hold trial of any organisation for committing crimes against humanity during the Liberation War.
The NHRC chairman, as special guest, was addressing a programme oragnised at Jatiya Press Club on the occasion of the first anniversary of a monthly human rights magazine ‘Manobadhikar Khobor’.
Eminent jurist Barrister Rafique-ul Huq, who also attended the programme as special guest, said war criminals should be awarded capital punishment but through proper trial.
About the Jamaat-backed countrywide hartal, he said the hartal should not be scraped through enacting law but it have to be prevented.
Both Rahman and Huq claimed that people rejected today’s hartal enforced by Jamaat.http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/latest_news.php?nid=44854
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