The government would take initiatives to ban Jamaat-e-Islami by June this year for the latter’s involvement in crimes against humanity and massacre during the country’s independence war, said Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Huq yesterday.
“There is no plan to ban religion-based political parties, but we have certainly a plan to impose ban on Jamaat’s politics on the grounds that it committed crimes against humanity,” he said.
“No matter what the final verdict comes, the Jamaat-e-Islami will be banned because of its war crimes. We hope to declare that by this June,” Mozammel said in reply to a series of queries from journalists at a programme in the Dhaka University’s central playground.
The Liberation War Museum hosted the programme.
