Trial of war criminals

It's undeniable that every history has to endure a few shameful scars, which never cease to disparage its supreme pride. As Bangladeshis we must always be ashamed of the fact that we failed to prosecute the collaborators who played a key role in the genocide perpetrated by the Pakistani invaders in 1971. Perhaps, today I'm even more ashamed of our predecessors than these sordid traitors, since our forefathers failed to wash these scars off our glorified history. Today, after 37 years, we demonstrate on the streets for the 'elusive' trial of the war criminals (as if staging a trivial drama), we watch emotional discussions on TV channels where participants ardently demand for effective tribunals and our intrepid freedom fighters hold countless meetings to boycott the war criminals from elections. At the same time, we inevitably put up with the fact that some of these infamous collaborators have served as ministers and top bureaucrats in our government administration. Moreover, we get utterly surprised to see these war criminals 'indifferently' representing one of the notorious political parties (a party reluctant to acknowledge our war of independence) and our leading parties forming lucrative coalitions with these twofaced collaborators in order to win elections! This entire scenario seems to me like a trite satire, characterized by a rather nasty sense of humour. The dauntless existence of these war criminals in our political milieu has turned the tragic tale of our liberation into a 'hysterical mockery' as we imprudently gave them the opportunity to laugh at our inability to ensure justice for our nation and for those who sacrificed their lives for our liberty selflessly. Our failure to punish these barefaced collaborators actually endorses the view once held by these traitors: 'the Bengalis are only good at talking, not at doing'. I really don't know how we should answer our next generations, who (quite logically) might not believe our luminous stories of freedom, when they'll see people who blatantly opposed it occupying the highest ranks in our socio-political system. Our political leaders have continued the perpetual blame-game regarding this issue for long and we incessantly put blames on several scapegoats. Now after 37 years it's quite natural for us to be sceptic about the prospect of 'the ultimate justice'. However, we must not forget that it's never too late to bring those to justice who remorselessly assaulted humanity in the name of God.