KARACHI: The Bangladeshi government has not only been following the agenda of political victimization but also violating the international accords.
These views were expressed by renowned human rights activists, judicial experts and political leaders while addressing a conference, hosted by the Human Rights Network at the Karachi Press Club on Saturday.
Eminent speakers highlighted that the so-called International Criminal Tribunal, being erected by the Bangladeshi ruling regime is a biased organization and does not fulfill the international requirements for any such tribunal. The executions under this so-called tribunal are blunt violations of international laws.
Legal experts and human rights workers revealed that India and Bangladesh are bound under the Shimla agreement for not launching trail against any person under charges of war crimes. They termed the judicial killings as political massacre and open challenge for the international community and the United Nations.
Civil Society representatives stressed the need to hold protest demonstrations outside the embassy and consulates of Bangladesh and to take up the matter at all international forums, including International Court and the United Nations.
Speakers on the occasion raised the point that why the Bangla ruling regime has been keeping mum over the brutalities being carried out against the patriotic people at the time as well as post separation scenario.
The speakers at the conference demanded an international commission to ascertain the anomalies in the creations of the so-called ICT and its controversial decisions.
Justice (Retd) Wajihuddin was of the view that the atrocities, being carried out by the Bangladeshi government should be unmasked at appropriate international levels. He also viewed the inter-connections between the spree of judicial murders and the Bangladeshi government’s move to declare the country as a secular state.
HRN Karachi chief Intekhab Alam Soori, JI Karachi chief Engr. Naeem-ur-Rehman, Dr. Iqbal Khalil, JUI’s Qari Muhammad Usman, PPP’s MNA Dr. Shahida Rehmani, MPA Hafeezuddin Advocate, Justice Helpline president Nadeem Shaikh Advocate, Pakistan Muslim Alliance president Muhammad Farooq, HRN General Secretary Shahzad Mazhar, Peace Welfare Foundation president Refat Awan Advocate, Ahsan-ul-Haq of Jamiat Alfalah, Abdul Qadir Mandokhail Advocate, Daily Pakistan News Editor Mubashir Mir, Hakeem Askari of Khaksaar Tehreek, Survive International’s Omer Ahsan, Motamar Aalam-e-Islam’s Mir Nawaz Khan Marwat, Abid Sehgal and others also spoke on the occasion
