70 MPs in Shahbagh solidarity

Seventy Members of Parliament on Sunday expressed solidarity with the ongoing movement for death to all war criminals at the capital’s Shahbagh.

The MPs went to Shahbagh around 9:30pm after Sunday’s session. All of them were wearing t-shirts with slogans written on them.

State Minister for Liberation War Affairs AB Tajul Islam spoke first on the main stage ‘Ganajagaran Mancha’. “I am 65 now. But I’m feeling young again after joining you all.”

State Minister for Housing and Public Works Abdul Mannan Khan also expressed solidarity and chanted slogans along with the protesters at Shahbagh.

MP Zunayed Ahmed Palak lent support to the movement on behalf of the MPs.

MP AN Mahfuza Khatun Baby Maudud and Prime Minister’s Special Assistant (Media) Mahbubul Haque Shakil were also there.

The movement at Shahbagh stepped into 13th day on Sunday with the demonstrators tirelessly continuing the protest demanding execution of all war criminals including Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdul Quader Molla. They are also agitating for a ban on Jamaat, which opposed the independence of Bangladesh during the 1971 Liberation War.

The protest had begun on Feb 5 hours after the International Crimes Tribunal-2 awarded life imprisonment to Molla for his crimes against humanity during the war in 1971. The protesters are calling the ICT verdict against Molla ‘too light, too little’.

The movement has spread across the country since it began at Shahabgh, now christened as ‘Prajanma Chattar’.