File case with Int'l Criminal Court against Pakistan
Celebrated cultural personality Syed Hasan Imam yesterday urged the government to file a case with International Criminal Court against Pakistan for the genocide of 1971.
“The atrocities...are listed in the Guinness book of records as one of 20th century's top five genocides. There is no other alternative to cutting ties with this state as it denied (committing) the genocide which I witnessed,” he said.
Syed Hasan was addressing a rally organised by a Gonojagoron Mancha faction led by Imran H Sarker in the capital's Shahbagh demanding severing diplomatic and economic ties for interfering in Bangladesh's domestic affairs like the war crimes trials.
Pakistan on November 30 denied committing any war crimes or atrocities during the 1971 Liberation War. It also rejected Bangladesh's statement that trashed Islamabad's concern over the recent executions of war criminals Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed and Salauddin Quader Chowdhury.
Imran termed Pakistan a terrorist state, saying the Hamoodur Rahman Commission and Simla Agreement of 1972 carried proof of its atrocities and assurance to try 195 prisoners of war who were repatriated.
He accused the government of being soft in dealing with Pakistan's statements and of providing the scope to “peddle Pakistani products” at a trade fair last year while the masses were demanding a boycott.
He said government failure to take action would compel people to come out onto the streets and besiege the Pakistan high commission.
The demonstrators later brought out a procession carrying flaming torches around Teacher-Student Centre of Dhaka University.
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