Expatriate Bangladeshis show solidarity

Expressing solidarity with the movement in Shahbagh, expatriate Bangladeshis all over the world are staging protest programmes demanding death sentence for war criminals.
Hundreds of Bangladeshis living in Michigan, New York, Miami and New Orleans in the United States, Hamburg in Germany and Perth in Australia staged demonstrations on Sunday while expatriate Bangladeshis in Philadelphia of Canada will organise a gathering on February 13, said a press release yesterday.
Michigan demonstrators announced a public awareness campaign, to be launched in the US, in support of the trial of war criminals. They echoed the slogans being chanted at Shahbagh in Dhaka asking for death sentence for war criminals accused of murder, rape and other forms of horrendous crimes committed in 1971.
They also urged US lawmakers not to be persuaded by the lobbyists hired by identified war criminals and urged everyone to socially boycott the war criminals including scrapping any ties with the criminals' controlled business establishments.
“We will ask our American friends to write to their elected representatives to support the judicial process against the war criminals,” said Dr Ahmedul Hasan, a renowned physician.
In New York, expatriate Bangladeshis gathered for the sixth consecutive day, to pledge their allegiance to the Shahbagh demonstration and demand for death penalty for all war criminals.
They also promised to provide federal authorities with all information they get about war crime suspects hiding in the United States and support the Bangladeshi government in bringing the war criminals back to the country.
Bangladeshi students of University of Bremen, Germany, gathered in front of their university to show their support to the Shahbagh demonstration. Students of University of Hamburg and University of Gottingen also joined the protest.