A US Senator-elect has urged Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to bring necessary changes to the International Crimes Tribunal act in order to prosecute war criminals for crimes committed during the war of liberation in 1971.
"Many in the international justice movement commend the country's precedent setting efforts to create a war crimes tribunal, but wish to remove the strong suspension that the Tribunal is being used as a tool for political revenge because of its denial of fair trial standards to the accused. I encourage your government to make necessary changes to the Act in order to comply with international standards as ratified in the Rome statute of the Internal Criminal Court," US Senator-elect John Boozman made the call in a letter sent to the Prime Minister recently.
