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Bangladesh
Call for UN recognition of 1971 genocide
2009-08-01
[Bangla Daily Star] The international conference on genocide in the capital yesterday called for a campaign for United Nations' recognition of the mass killings during the 1971 Liberation War as genocide.
We'll get right on it. See you in...2071.
It wasn't genocide, merely mass killings. Definitely a war crime, but Bangladesh ought to be able to handle it on their own, with the help of international policing organizations like Interpol.
Historians, academics and international legal experts told the conference, which ended yesterday, that the government should make necessary preparations for trying the war criminals and pursue diplomatic efforts to drum up international support in favour of the move.

"The conference calls upon the media and the civil society at home and abroad to focus on the genocide in Bangladesh, and launch a campaign so that this is recognised in the UN as Genocide," says the declaration of the two-day Second International Conference on Genocide, Truth and Justice organised by the Liberation War Museum at Cirdap auditorium.

Liberation War Museum Trustee Tariq Ali read out the declaration of the conference, saying Bangladesh needs to learn from the experiences of other countries in trying war criminals to overcome the complexities of the trial process. Legal experts and academics from Germany, Vietnam, Hong Kong, UK and Canada were also present. Endorsing the government move to prosecute the perpetrators of the genocide during the 1971 Liberation War, the conference emphasised collection and processing of testimonies, addressing the victims' sufferings and recognition of their rights and broader involvement of people in the trial process.

"The issues of management of trauma, reparation, witness protection, extradition, trials in other countries need to be studied further," Tariq Ali read from the declaration.
Posted by:Fred

#1  Nothing to see here, move along.
Posted by: newc   2009-08-01 00:34  

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