Appointing Nizami a minister was slap on martyrs’ faces: ICT
Staff Correspondent,
Published: 29 Oct 2014 07:50 PM BdST Updated: 29 Oct 2014 08:02 PM BdST
The International Crimes Tribunal has observed that giving a ministerial berth to Motiur Rahman Nizami was a “slap on the faces of millions of martyrs”.
The tribunal made the observation while sentencing the Jamaat chief to death for the war crimes he committed during 1971 on Wednesday.
“It is very much hard to believe that a person, who actively opposed the very Liberation War of Bangladesh, was appointed as a Minister of the Republic,” the tribunal said in its verdict.
“We are led to observe that the appointment of the accused as a Minister, by the then government, who happened to be an anti-liberation leader, was a great blunder as well as a clear slap on the face of the Liberation War as well as three million martyrs and two lakh women who sacrificed their chastity for the Liberation of Bangladesh,” it further observed.
“This shameful act was disgraceful for the nation as a whole,” the tribunal added.
After the four-party alliance headed by the BNP came to power in 2001, Nizami was appointed as agriculture minister. Later he was made industries minister.
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