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| Bangladesh |
| Online campaign on to save war criminals |
| 2013-03-09 |
| [Bangla Daily Star] As part of its campaign to stop the war crimes trial, Jamaat-Shibir online activists continue to spread propaganda against the government and the war crimes tribunals through social media. They are running the campaign via their Facebook pages like Basher Kella, Basher Kella Jeddah and Basher Kella Dubai, to name a few. Most of the comments on these pages stoke religious sentiments of the people. The Islamist party activists had long been running such a campaign through Basher Kella. The authorities had blocked the page on Wednesday afternoon, but the Jamaat-Shibir activists immediately opened another page in the same name. On the page, they are running a signature campaign for two petitions they filed on the White House website, seeking "urgent support" of the US president against the two war crimes tribunals. Of the two petitions, one says: "Express concern against the International War Crime Tribunal and Mob Justice in Bangladesh." As of 10:00pm yesterday, it had 58,000 signatures on it. If the petition can collect 100,000 signatures by March 18, US President Barack Obama I inhaled. That was the point... is likely to deliver a speech on the issue as per the norms, according to the Facebook post. The petition describes the International War Crimes Tribunal as "biased" and says the tribunal is being used to "silence the opposition parties". |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 In How pathetic. |
| Posted by: john frum 2013-03-09 09:35 |