War criminals’ children hatching conspiracies: Law minister
Stay alert against them, he says
Law Minister Anisul Huq today alleged that the children of war criminals are hatching conspiracies and urged all to stay alert against them.
“The children of war criminals are not innocent. They are hatching conspiracies and will continue it. We have to remember that and stay alert against them,” Anisul said.
“We have to continue our war against their conspiracies,” he also said, adding that the trial will continue.
The minister was addressing at a discussion organised by Ekattorer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee at WVA auditorium in Dhaka’s Dhanmondi this afternoon.
Regarding the growing demand for confiscating the properties of war criminals, the minister said the government is mulling over formulating a new law to deal with the issue.
The government is analysing how to use the confiscated properties of war criminals and also to utilise those for the benefit of freedom fighters’ families and common people, he said.
The law minister also said that the opinions of common people will be given priority regarding relocation of the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT).
The Supreme Court on August 24 sent a letter to the law ministry asking it to relocate the tribunal from its old High Court building and to hand over its possession by October 31.
Freedom fighters, war crimes trial campaigners and victims’ family members on August 27 demanded the SC to withdraw the letter.