There is no scope for excusing the criminals convicted with war crimes, said Law Minister Shafique Ahmed in his immediate reaction to the death sentence handed down to Jamaat leader Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed in the war crimes cases.
While talking to reporters in his secretariat office on Wednesday, the minister also said he believed that even the president would not use his power to excuse such criminals considering the degree of their offences.
Replying to a query on the execution of the verdicts during the present government’s tenure, the law minister said he also believed that no matter which government was in power, the verdicts would be executed.
State Minister for Law Quamrul Islam told reporters that as per the law, no government would be able to free such war criminals; but they might delay the execution by drawing out the appeals against those verdicts left pending in the appellate division.
Both the law minister and his junior also expressed satisfaction at the death sentence against Mojaheed pronounced by the International Crimes Tribunal.
Shafique said the trial of war criminals was the expectation of the people of the country.
The tribunal has finished trying some of the charges of crimes against humanity with transparency and maintaining international quality, he said.
