Mr. Mohammed Ramjan
You sound more like "Ami Kola Khaini ......"
Professor Meghna Guhathakurta's discussion was about how
"War criminals used 'rape' as a tool to break social resistance",
not about the trial of war criminals......
You said: "We demand " ... who are these "We"..... ?
Do you represent Jamaate Izlami and it's Al-Bodor Killing
squards?
Jamaat's collaboration with the Pak-Army and it's activities
in the 1971-killing fields of Bangladesh were based on any
moral principle. As history tells us it was sheer narrow
political opportunism and political expediency,unique to Jamaat?
The 1971 Jamaate Izlami and it's Al-Bodor Killing squards were
the enemies of Bangladesh within ......
It is at the discretion of the people of Bangladesh how to put
these local criminals on trial .... there are overwhelming level of
support for the trial of the 1971-traitors and all-time gadders,
the collaborator of Tikka-Niazi's army: the Jamaate Islami and
it's killer Al-Bodor wing.
The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past.
There was never a pardon of 195 war criminals per se by Bangladesh.
Once again you are trying to have a free ride. You are not telling us
"how the Pakistani soldiers were deported to India before Sheikh Mujib
was released from Pakistan, and how strongly he tried to put those
Pakistani war criminals on trial defying China's veto in the United Nations
and Pakistan's threat to execute stranded Bangalis in retaliation;
and finally, how they were released from India."
Thanks for your patience...
Syed Aslam
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 11:49 PM,
Mohammed Ramjan <mramjan@hotmail.com> wrote:
We demand first for Awami league leaders who pardoned that 195 war criminals and let them go free to pakistan.
Today all
Awami bull shed waken up just to try to some far behind dalal because they are their political opponent.
So the present war crime trial is not based on moral but based on political propoganda.
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 17:07:00 -0500
Subject: War criminals used 'rape' as a tool to break social resistance
War criminals used 'rape' as a tool to break social resistance
Liberation War researcher and daughter of an independence martyr Professor Meghna Guhathakurta on Saturday demanded exposure of the 1971 rapists saying they had targeted the women to destroy the social resistance using "rape" as a tool, reports BSS.
"The main characteristic of the Bangladesh's Liberation War was that it was not mere a war between armed soldiers, rather it was a peoples' war against professional soldiers where the entire society was involved," a former international relations professor Meghna told BSS on Saturday.
She said the perpetrators of crimes against humanity in 1971, visibly tried to frustrate the resistance weakening the peoples' moral through rapes alongside fulfilling their bestial desires.
"The exposure of rape nearly destroys a woman's life in our society and rape in a massive scale destroys the society itself, which was an objective of those who had tried to foil the independence," said Meghna, who is the daughter of 1971 martyr Professor Jyotirmay Guhathakurta.
She said even if enough evidence was not available to prove beyond doubt the allegation of the suspected rapists, they could be unmasked through "restorative justice".
"There are two types of justice system - one is 'retributive justice' where someone is exposed to trial with proven evidence and handed down the punishment while another is 'restorative justice' when at least the truth could be upheld even without a specific evidence against the suspect," she said.
For Meghna Guhathakurta, whose father was murdered by the Pak Army when she was only fifteen, her freedom is something that she guards with her life and something that she will never give up at any cost.
| War criminals used "rape" as a tool to destroy social resistance: Guhathakurta |
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DHAKA, Oct 9 (BSS) - Liberation War researcher and daughter of an independence martyr Professor Meghna Guhathakurta today demanded exposure of the 1971 rapists saying they had targeted the women to destroy the social resistance using "rape" as a tool.
"The main characteristic of the Bangladesh's Liberation War was that it was not mere a war between armed soldiers, rather it was a peoples' war against professional soldiers where the entire society was involved," a former international relations professor Meghna told BSS today.
She said the perpetrators of crimes against humanity in 1971, visibly tried to frustrate the resistance weakening the peoples' moral through rapes alongside fulfilling their bestial desires.
"The exposure of rape nearly destroys a woman's life in our society and rape in a massive scale destroys the society itself, which was an objective of those who had tried to foil the independence," said Meghna, who is the daughter of 1971 martyr Professor Jyotirmay Guhathakurta.
She said even if enough evidence was not available to prove beyond doubt the allegation of the suspected rapists, they could be unmasked through "restorative justice".
"There are two types of justice system - one is 'retributive justice' where someone is exposed to trial with proven evidence and handed down the punishment while another is 'restorative justice' when at least the truth could be upheld even without a specific evidence against the suspect," she said.
Under the "restorative justice", she said, it could be known who was involved in atrocities or crimes like rapes siding with the Pakistani troops during the Liberation War.
"It may appear difficult to find a precise proof against someone who had raped our women nearly forty years ago, but they could be identified as a rapist . . . we will get back to the real history," Meghna said.
She said the international conventions pinpointed "rape" as
a war crime, which could underpin the trial of the 1971 rapists
at the Special Tribunal set up to expose to justice the
perpetrators of crimes against humanity during the Liberation
War.
Asked for comments about the Meghna's demand for the
exposure of the 1971 rapists to justice, a senior member of the
special prosecution panel to assist the Tribunal, Advocate Syed
Rezaur Rahman said "rape" was one of the major offences to be
tried in the special court.
"A special investigation agency is gathering evidence
against the suspects and the progress is encouraging. We expect
the 1971 criminals including the suspected rapists to be brought
to justice," he said.
Officially two lakh women were tortured while 30 lakh people
lost their lives in the hands of Pakistani troops and their
collaborators.
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