Bangladesh will burn in fury if SQ Chy verdict is changed: Ganajagaran Mancha

Bangladesh will burn in fury if a ‘conspiracy’ reduces the death penalty handed to wartime-terror Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury, Ganajagaran Mancha has said. 

Staff Correspondentbdnews24.com
Published : 25 July 2015, 06:31 PM
Updated : 25 July 2015, 07:02 PM

The Appellate Division will deliver its verdict for the BNP leader on Jul 29.

The mass movement that burst onto the world scene two years ago to demand maximum penalty for 1971 war criminals, began nonstop demonstrations at Shahbagh on Friday.

Earlier, a foreign media outlet published a piece that claimed a member of Chowdhury’s family managed to meet the Chief Justice of Bangladesh, Mancha spokesperson Imran H Sarkar said.

The piece by Bangladesh journalist Swadesh Roy was published on South Asia Monitor on Jul 6.

Roy, an executive editor of the Daily Janakantha, claimed ‘a close source of one of the government bodies’ informed him of the meeting.

“The entire country will be furious if a conspiracy changes the verdict for notorious war criminal Salauddin Quader,” Sarkar on Saturday.

“I urge all supporters of our Liberation to come onto the streets. Ganajagaran Mancha is here and will remain here against all barriers.”

The demonstration began at 4pm at Shahbagh’s ‘Prajanma Chattar’. Men and women shouted slogans in the rain.

In 2013, International Crimes Tribunal-1 convicted Chowdhury of genocide and deadly torture of Hindus and Awami League supporters in Chittagong.

His reign of terror included running a torture cell with his father, Muslim League leader Fazlul Quader Chowdhury, in their Goods Hill house.

He was found guilty of murdering Kundeshwari Oushadhalaya owner Nutan Chandra Singha, genocide of Hindus at Sultanpur and Unsattar Parha, and abduction and murder of a Hathazari Awami League leader and his son Sheikh Alamgir.

Chowdhury, arrested on Dec 16, 2010, was the first sitting MP to be convicted of war crimes. The BNP Standing Committee member challenged the verdict in court on Oct 29 that year.