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Monday, November 23, 2015

[mukto-mona] Re: Justice not served in Bangladesh/Stephen Rapp



As if I really care about what a low quality Jamat man thinks about the heinous crimes of 1971. If Pakis, Al-Bdr  and Razakars did not participate in mass killings of Bengalees in 1971, then who did the killings? Aliens from another planet?

I do understand that lobby money is being channeled to many unemployed and willing Americans to portray the Jamat criminals in better light but we know what really happened in 1971. These convicted criminals are simply lucky to live another four decades because Zia needed these war criminals for his BNP party.




On Monday, November 23, 2015 2:07 PM, Abid Bahar <abid.bahar@gmail.com> wrote:


To the people who are the paid Indian razakars, it is not justice that is important, but what is important is Hasina's fascist justice by murder is the appropriate thing to do.

By the way, I try to ignore this man call Deldar who refuses to give us his real name; a shameless person with no integrity. Surely, money is more important to him than shame,

On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 12:55 PM, rashed Anam <rashedanam1971@gmail.com> wrote:

What difference does it make if Stphen Rapp represented US or not? Hasn't Stephen Rapp already known as a single most authority of war-crime trial by his impeccable expertise and experiences? Doesn't his non-representing US makes his judgement even more independent and free and thus more credible?  
Besides, US itself too has opposed this so called bullshit fraudulent court and State department gave statement. 
How about Amnesty international or Human Rights Watch? They are personal opinion too? What a moron!  

The SibShena Muslim attacker cockroach is passing judgement on Stephen Rapp??? O Boy!!! Try first passing judgement on Stephen's dog.  With your nameless parasitic live, fascist SibShena hate-spewing extremist recordl, Your 14 generation could not cumulatively add up to even come close to passing judgement to his dog , let alone passing judgement to Stephen Rapp. Trying writing one single article on war-crime process and justice before trying to pass judgement on Stephen Rapp like a village idiot. It's like a 4th grader trying to pass judgement on Stephen Hawkin on the science of Universe!! 


This idiot Hindu-Fanatic  attached FP news to discredit Stephen which actually rather makes Stephen even more credible and uncompromising advocate of  human rights on the subject of war crime. 

It does not take even a Stephen Rapp, or Human Right Watch or Amnesty International or UN, to see know a witness-kidnapping, a witness blocking, a skype-Belgium  importing, a law-ministry verdict writing, a 41- vs-4 witness allowing, safe-house-witness-torturing,   govt controlled political kangaroo court can even be considered anything but criminal and fraudulent!  

Look at one of the case of fraudulent case of govt witness extortion in this video...

On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 12:33 PM, Shah Deeldar <shahdeeldar@yahoo.com> wrote:
FYI, Rapp does not represent US. So, his opinion is no more worth than a private citizen of any country.
Pakistanis do not like the verdicts either. Is that a surprise? Former Al-bdr and Razakar. members would be frustrated with such justice too. They thought Zia had wiped out their crimes and sins to make them hyper Bangladeshi patriots?



On Monday, November 23, 2015 11:44 AM, Abid Bahar <abid.bahar@gmail.com> wrote:


Justice not served in Bangladesh
Stephen Rapp

November 22, 2015 3:42 pm


I served as ambassador-at-large leading the Office of Global Criminal Justice in the U.S. State Department for six years from September 2009 to August 2015.
During my tenure, I was honored to be received in Bangladesh at the invitation of its government to provide advice regarding the process for holding trials of those alleged to be responsible for major atrocities committed during the 1971 Liberation War. I made five trips to Dhaka, in January 2011, May 2011, November 2011, May 2013, and August 2014, and also communicated with key participants between my visits.
Throughout my engagement, my first interest has been to achieve justice for the victims and survivors through trials and appeals that would establish the undisputable truth and hold the major surviving perpetrators to account. For such a process to stand the test of time, I urged that the judicial proceedings of the International Crimes Tribunal respect the highest legal standards.
It saddens me to say that I do not believe that was done in the cases of Salauddin Qader Chowdhury and Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid. Under the provisions of international law that Bangladesh has bound itself to uphold, the imposition of sentences of death in these cases is not justified, and I would urge the government to commute the death sentences in the interests of justice.
I have looked most closely at the Chowdhury case, but note that the Mujahid case followed the similar procedures that did not give the defense the same opportunities to obtain and present evidence as the prosecution. It is particularly disturbing that Chowdhury was denied the right to call alibi witnesses, including a former U.S. ambassador during the Clinton administration, to provide testimony that he was not present in Bangladesh at the time the alleged crimes were committed.
Bangladesh is a party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights ("ICCPR"). The ICCPR affords the accused the right "to obtain the attendance and examination of witnesses on his or her behalf under the same conditions as witnesses against him or her."
The right of the accused to present witnesses – especially alibi witnesses – has also been recognized in other international crimes tribunals. In a case that I personally prosecuted at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the Appeals Chamber held that "[T]he concept of a fair trial includes equal opportunity to present one's case and the fundamental right that criminal proceedings should be adversarial in nature, with both prosecution and accused having the opportunity to have knowledge of and comment on the observations filed or evidence adduced by either party."
The European Court of Human Rights has likewise ruled that Russia's "refusal to examine the defense [alibi] witnesses without any regard to the relevance of their statements led to a limitation of the defense rights incompatible with the guarantees of a fair trial enshrined in April when he moved to Lahore, Pakistan, to study at Punjab University. They will testify that Chowdhury did not return to Bangladesh until October of 1971– months after the crimes occurred for which he was sentenced to death.
Despite allowing the prosecutor to call 41 witnesses, the Tribunal restricted Chowdhury's defense to four witnesses.
The Tribunal also refused to consider affidavits from the excluded witnesses because they were allegedly submitted without sufficient notice to the prosecutor – a fact disputed by Chowdhury.
The Appellate Division also rejected affidavits and live testimony from the witnesses.  It first concluded that the proposed affidavits had been fraudulently "manufactured" by Chowdhury's former attorney. Id. at 142. It next objected that the affidavits were not properly authenticated, do not contain statements verifying the truth of each affidavit, and were not stamped properly. According to the defense team, Chowdhury attempted to notify the authorities, authenticate the statements, and stamp the affidavits, but the authorities refused.
On November 2, 2015, the Supreme Court again denied Chowdhury's petition to consider the testimony of his alibi witnesses. On November 18, 2015, the Supreme Court fully denied his review petition and also refused to admit Chowdhury's university transcripts, which corroborate that he was in Pakistan.
The Chowdhury defense has provided details of the expected testimony of the alibi witnesses. Of course, if their testimony were allowed, there would be an opportunity to the prosecution to cross-examine them, and for the judges to determine their credibility. But that process was not permitted, so what we have are summaries from the defense that the witnesses would have testified as follows.
Muhammed Osman Siddique, who was a classmate of Chowdhury's and later a US Ambassador to several Pacific nations, would have testified that Chowdhury left Bangladesh in March of 1971 on the same flight as him and that Chowdhury was not politically active during his time as a student in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Amber Haroon Saigol, publisher of the Dawn newspaper group, would have testified that Chowdhury stayed with her family for three weeks in Karachi, Pakistan, in March and April of 1971.
Muneeb Arjmand Khan, a businessman, would have testified that Chowdhury left Bangladesh in March of 1971 for Karachi, Pakistan.
Ishaq Khan Khakwani, a Pakistani politician, would have testified that Chowdhury arrived in Pakistan in March 1971, moved from Karachi to Lahore in April 1971, and lived with his family in Pakistan from April to October of 1971.
Mohammedmian Soomro, formerly the Interim President of the Government of Pakistan, Care Taker Prime Minister, Governor and Chief Executive of the Sindh Province and Chairman of the Senate, would have testified that Chowdhury moved from Karachi to Lahore, Pakistan, to study at Punjab University in April of 1971.
Reaz Ahmed Noon, a classmate of Chowdhury at Punjab University, would have testified that Chowdhury lived in Lahore during the summer of 1971 and traveled to London in October of 1971.
The Chowdhury case is not the only case from the International Crimes Tribunal to feature procedural irregularities. The trial of Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid and others also saw similar deficiencies. Under these circumstances, I call upon the government of Bangladesh to commute the sentences of both individuals, and immediately place a moratorium on the imposition of death sentences until there is full compliance with international law.
Stephen Rapp served as the United States Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues from September 2009 to August 2015.
http://www.clickittefaq.com/editorial-oped/justice-not-served-in-bangladesh/

2015-11-23 11:11 GMT-05:00 S Akhter <sakhter1015@gmail.com>:
৭১ এর মানবতা বিরোধী অপরাধে যাদের কে ফাঁসি দেয়া হলো তাদের বিচার কার্য্য যে সুষ্ঠ হয় নি তা সব গুলো মানবাধিকার সংগঠন এক বাক্যে বলে আসছে । এই বিচারে যাদের কে ফাঁসি দেয়া হলো তাদের পক্ষের কোন সাক্ষী কে বাংলাদেশে আসার অনুমতি দেয়া হয় নাই । শুধু মাএ রাজনৈতিক প্রতিপক্ষ কে ঘায়েলের জন্য নিরপরাধ কিছু মানুষ কে ফাঁসি দেয়া হচ্ছে ।

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