Ban on Jamaat demanded

A few student bodies yesterday demanded setting up of international crimes tribunals at district level to speed up the war crimes trial and banning Jamaat-e-Islami claiming that the party conducted crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971.
They placed the demands at a press conference under the banner of Chhatra Sangram Parishad, a platform of seven student bodies, at Madhur Canteen on Dhaka University (DU) campus.
The Parishad includes Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), Bangladesh Chhatra Moitri,
pro-JSD Bangladesh Chhatra League, Bangladesh Chhatra Andolan, Jatiya Chhatra Oikya, Bangladesh Chhatra Samity and Jatiya Chhatra Forum.
Main opposition BNP and its alliance partner Jamaat are conspiring to foil the trial of war criminals through creating anarchy in the country, said the parishad coordinator HM Badiuzzaman Sohag, also the BCL president.
He also announced to bring out a procession today on the campus to press home their demands.
BCL General Secretary Siddique Nazmul Alam, Bangladesh Chhatra Moitri President Bappaditya Basu, and pro-JSD Bangladesh Chhatra League President Hossain Ahmed Tafsir also spoke at the conference.