Trial of Razakars demanded
Speakers at a discussion yesterday demanded trial of the Razakars who were involved in the mass killing at Jhathibhanga in Thakurgaon Sadar upazila during the Liberation War.
The criminals are moving freely even 46 years after the country's independence, freedom fighters and the relatives of the martyrs said at the programme marking 'Jhathibhanga mass killing day' in Sadar upazila.
Many of the perpetrators have now become influential members of the society, they said at the discussion organised by Jhathibhanga Badyabhumi Trust.
They placed wreaths at the martyrs' monument at the spot.
Several widows, including Ashamoni and Fulbanu, also witnesses to the carnage, recalled the horrific massacre at Jhathibhanga.
The victims' family members urged the government to recognise them as shaheed paribar (martyrs' family) and arrange trial of the Razakars who acted as local collaborators of the killer Pakistani army.
The occupation army killed around 3,000 people on April 23 in 1971 and buried them in a grave as the people, mostly belonging to the Hindu community, gathered at Jhathibhanga village.
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