The government is actively considering enactment of the Liberation War defamation law, Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Anisul Huq has said.
Replying to a starred question from Awami League MP Waresat Hussain Belal, Bir Protik (Netrakona-5), the minister said the government will take punitive action against the persons concerned.
“Tendency of distorting history of the Liberation War and that of the then period has turned into a habit of some irresponsible politicians after the gruesome killing of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his family members in 1975,” said Anisul Huq.
In this context, if any person declines or defames the great Liberation War overall by providing unnecessary or untrue information, or delivering untrue remarks or publishing misleading information regarding the Liberation War or the history of the then period, it will be counted as crime in the probable law, he noted.
The government is also actively considering to bring amendment to the International Crimes (Tribunals) Act 1973 for trying Jamaat as a terrorist organisation, he told the House.
In responding to another starred question from AL MP Abul Kalam (Natore-1), the law minister said the government is determined to try those who were involved in killing people by resorting to arson attacks.
The trial process of such crimes will be completed in faster way, the minister hoped.