The trial of war criminals

The trial of war criminals: a litmus test

NM Harun

Freedom-fighters are freedom-fighters and war criminals are war criminals in the context of the War of Independence. In the post-’75 Bangladesh, the freedom-fighters are remnants of a radical, revolutionary past that is no longer cherished by the Islam-pasand, neo-liberal political class. The players in the power game are actually busy playing the musical chairs of power though they occasionally mouth the slogan of trying the war criminals as a convenient political tactic …Those who are committed to the cause of trying the war criminals need to stop the process of the ‘destruction of the past’ and link their ‘contemporary experience’ to that of the birth of Bangladesh ..................