RR,
As far as the propaganda is concerned you can see that present day Bangladeshis are questioning this foolish figure of 3 million and many of them are denying this means if it was not the propaganda of Bangalis but of Mujib who was an Indian agent.
I respect every Muslim who supports Pakistan and it is our ethical, religious and moral duty to bring Biharis and develop confederation with Bangladesh which was Pakistan.
Dear Salman,
Contrary to your post there was a very recent and vocal demand made for the war trials to be conducted. Please also see the bold statements in the article. Personally I think it will be a waste of time.
Regards
Khaleej Times Online - Bangladesh commanders demand war crime trial
Bangladesh commanders demand war crime trial
(Reuters)
21 March 2008
DHAKA - More than 36 years after Bangladesh won independence through a bloody war that killed 3 million people, commanders and veterans of the conflict gathered in Dhaka on Friday to demand trial of alleged war criminals.
The issue has strong political implications as some alleged suspects are leaders and activists of the Jamaat-e-Islami Party, part of the government of former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia who ended her five-year term in power in October 2006.
Jamaat denies the accusations.
Rallying under the banner of the Bangladesh Liberation War Sector Commanders Forum, those attending urged the army-backed interim government to at least initiate war crime trials.
The first convention of the recently-formed forum was attended by many who said they witnessed carnage by Pakistans army and collaborators in the then East Pakistan in 1971.
Tight security was imposed around the forum venue.
Speakers, including past top military officers who fought in the nine-month war, said they felt anguished and disgraced over the long delay in bringing war criminals to justice.
Our campaign to bring the war criminals to law and put them through trials will continue indefinitely, until the authorities make our dream into reality, said former air chief A.K. Khandaker, Bangladesh Liberation Army deputy chief in 1971.
I appeal to the government to form war crimes tribunals and also to seek help of the United Nations to arrange trial of the war criminals, Khandaker added.
War crimes during Bangladeshs independence war against Pakistan has been a largely dormant issue under successive governments.
Top interim authority officials said it was too busy with other issues, including holding elections before year-end, to take up the sensitive and complex war crime matter.
Many Bangladeshis accuse Jamaat, the countrys biggest religion-based political party, of having opposed independence and complicity with the Pakistani army in killings, rapes and other atrocities.
Bangladesh official records say around 3 million people died during the 1971 war at the hands of the Pakistani army and local collaborators.
Major political parties and other critics have also said Jamaat has harboured violent Islamist militants and wants Bangladesh to be a sharia-based Islamic state.