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Arab League watching ICT trials
Arab League Secretary General Nabil El Araby has said he is following Bangladesh’s war crimes trial “quite closely” and that the Arab League will always “stand by the side of justice”.
Published : 12 March 2014, 02:57 PM
Updated : 12 March 2014, 02:57 PM
He made the comment in a meeting with Bangladesh's State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam in Cairo on Tuesday.
The foreign ministry on Wednesday said the Secretary General also praised Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s “guts and determination” to hold the trial by forming separate International Crimes Tribunals (ICT).
He recounted memories of the deliberations in the UN Security Council during Bangladesh’s Liberation War.
After it came to power in 2009, the Awami League government set up special tribunals to try those who allegedly committed crimes against humanity in the 1971 War of Independence, including murder and rape.
Leaders of the Jamaat-e-Islami, which sided with Pakistan during the war, are mainly accused of the crimes.
The junior minister sought the Arab League’s support in matters of climate change, on the Myanmar refugee problem, and in countering “false propaganda” about the ongoing trials by certain quarters.
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