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100,000 Bangladeshis seek death penalty for war crimes
Tuesday February 26, 2013 12:02:49 PM,
IANS
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Dhaka: More than
100,000 people have signed a letter seeking death penalty for
Bangladeshi war criminals, a media report said Tuesday.
The mass signature campaign, which began Feb 22, demands death
penalty for war criminals. People who collaborated with the
Pakistan government during the 1971 freedom movement are called
"war criminals" in Bangladesh.
Till Monday night, signatures of more than one lakh people were
collected, reported dailystar.net.
The youth have been demonstrating for the last 22 days at Shahbagh
intersection, popularly known as Projonmo Chattar.
The movement began Feb 5, soon after Islamist party
Jamaat-e-Islami assistant secretary general Abdul Quader Mollah
was sentenced to life in prison for rape, killing and genocide in
1971 during country's liberation war. People became angry on
seeing the image of Mollah smiling and holding up two fingers in a
"V" sign as he was led from the court.
Bloggers and Online Activist Network initiated the protest that
soon turned into a mass movement.
The demonstrators plan to stage a demonstration outside the home
ministry Tuesday demanding arrest of Mahmudur Rahman, acting
editor of Bangla daily Amar Desh.
Rahman has been sued for instigating militancy and fanaticism and
spreading false information to create anarchy across the country,
said a media report.
People from different walks of life began to throng the Shahbagh
intersection since Tuesday morning.
They chanted revolutionary slogans.
Demonstrators Sunday took out a procession in the capital to
protest the countrywide daylong shutdown called by eight Islamist
parties.
Black flags were hoisted Feb 18 in memory of blogger Ahmed Rajib
Haider, an activist of ongoing Shahbagh movement as the current
wave of demonsterations is called, who was stabbed to death Feb
15.
On March 26, 1971, the people of then East Pakistan began a
military campaign against Pakistani armed forces following
largescale killings of civilians opposed to strong-arm rule of
Islamabad.
The civil war led to the eventual India-Pakistan war in December
1971, leading to the break-up of Pakistan and the birth of
Bangladesh.
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