Staff Reporter:
The Chief Prosecutor of International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) Muhammad Tajul Islam yesterday said trial of incidents of crimes against humanity committed during July-August mass uprising will be held at
the tribunal.
“The ICT will hold the trial of genocides and crimes against humanity committed during the July-August mass uprising. If the International Criminal Court (ICC) wants to provide any technical support, we will take it,” he said while replying to a question of a newsman on the tribunal premises today.
Reiterating prosecution’s commitment to bring the July-August criminals to justice, the ICT chief prose-cutor further said Bangladesh is very much able and committed to hold the trial of crimes against hu-manity.
“Those crimes had taken place in Bangladesh, many accused are still in the country, some are in neigh-boring countries, and witnesses are also here. So it is very natural that the trial will be held in Bangla-desh court. Trial of any crime goes to ICC when any state is unable or not interested to hold trial over that. Both these conditions are not applicable for Bangladesh,” he added.
