It is a good initiative. One of the many ordinances approved by the military-controlled government suggested the banning of convicted war criminals from local polls. Now, the government should take initiatives to try and convict war criminals.
The sooner, the better. This process must be completed before national polls are held. If for some reason this job cannot be completed within a short period, local polls can be deferred.
The people of Bangladesh are not pressing for hurriedly organised local polls now.
MH Khan
On e-mail
The Local Government Ordinance 2008 kept a provision for a ban on the war criminals convicted by any local or international court or tribunal.
Are the caretaker government and the EC happy in making such a vague ordinance without the trial of those criminals when millions of our people were killed, a large section of the intellectual community of Bangladesh were murdered, numerous women were tortured, raped and killed during the war?
Gopal Sengupta
Canada
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