State, govt bound to try war criminals

The state and government are bound to try war criminals to ensure justice in the country, National Human Rights Commission Chairman Prof Mizanur Rahman told a seminar yesterday.
“But the trial of war criminals is facing threats through different ways. Different subterfuges are being shown, after hacking into a judge's personal conversation, to halt the trial,” he said.
The seminar, “World Human Rights Day and the Human Rights of the Marginal People”, was organised by Research and Development Collective and Oxfam in the capital's Dhaka Reporters Unity.
Mizanur said the hackers should be tried for personal privacy violation.
Criticising political parties for resorting to confrontations only for state power and without ensuring citizen's human rights, he said the state failed to establish human rights for all communities.
Former adviser to a caretaker government Akbar Ali Khan said it was essential to establish the rule of law to establish human rights.
Law Commission acting chairman Prof Shah Alam and Prof Meshbah Kamal of Dhaka University also spoke at the programme.