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Published: 31 Dec 2020 08:55 PM BdST
Updated: 31 Dec 2020 09:11 PM BdST
There is no doubt that 2020 will go down in history as the year of a deadly pandemic when the fear of death accompanied the people at every step. In Bangladesh, many saw the pandemic as an opportunity to enrich themselves as various scams related to the outbreak were uncovered. );
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Meanwhile, issues like the scandal involving Shamima Noor Papia, an expelled leader of Jubo Mohila League who allegedly ran escort services at the Westin hotel in Dhaka, the COVID testing scam which brought dubious businessman Mohammad Shahed under the spotlight, along with the killing of retired major Sinha Md Rashed Khan by the police, rank among the biggest talking points of the year.
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Published: 16 Dec 2020 10:06 PM BdST
Updated: 16 Dec 2020 10:24 PM BdST
The International Crimes Tribunal has convicted 95 war criminals in a decade, but half of them are on the run. );
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The Awami League promised to constitute the tribunal and hold war crimes trials in the manifesto of the ninth general election in 2009, and formed the International Crimes Tribunal or ICT the following year.
The tribunal has delivered verdicts in 41 cases of crimes against humanity and convicted 95 of the 105 accused. Of the 69 death-row convicts, 35 are on the run and one other died as a fugitive. Life terms were handed down to 24 of the accused, but 12 of them are currently absconding.