Ekattorer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee has demanded that the European countries ban the activities of war criminals of Bangladesh in their countries including those from Jamaat-e-Islami so that they may not re-emerge and commit crimes again.
Speakers at a discussion in Swedish capital Stockholm on Sunday also said they would raise awareness among the people so that convicted war criminal Zahidur Rahman alias Khokon Razakar, now hiding in Sweden, is tried in a local court.
Another death sentenced war criminal Chowdhury Mueen Uddin is living in the UK. Both the countries are against capital punishment.
Executive President of the organisation Shahriar Kabir said the young Bangladeshis abroad should raise their voice against the enemies of the Liberation War including Jamaat and other groups. “They should be brought to book in the European countries where they have been living in. We demand that the European communities ban their terrorist activities.”
If the Swedish government did not return Khokon Razakar, it might try him too, Shahriar said. Otherwise, someday he might be seen playing a vital role in terrorist groups like al-Qaeda or ISIS.
The discussion was organised by the Sweden branch of the committee, a citizens’ platform founded by Jahanara Imam campaigning against the 1971 war criminals. The programme was chaired by Sweden branch President Akhtar Zaman.
Bangladesh High Commissioner in Sweden Golam Sarwar said because of Jamaat propaganda, many European countries had negative perception about the Bangladesh’s war trials. “But now the European governments have expressed their positive stance in every matter of the tribunal, except for the death sentences.”