Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman reasserts in unambiguous terms today that the trial of war criminals must be held on Bangladesh soil. Addressing a huge crowd at the Suhrawardy Udyan on Victory Day, the prime minister explains that prisoners of war and war criminals are not the same. "The war criminals will be tried and must be tried; nobody can stop this," he reiterates. "Sheikh Mujib never compromises."
The prime minister recalls in a plaintive voice that war criminals carried out a systematic genocide in Bangladesh, killing 30 lakh people. They murdered intellectuals, they forced the exodus of 10 million people, dishonoured two and a half lakh women, made 40 lakh children orphans and let loose a hell of destruction and pillage in Bangladesh.