Law Minister Anisul Haq on Thursday said the government is committed to bringing to justice those who attack minority community members.
“The anti-liberation forces are still active. They’re involved in conspiracies against the pro-liberation forces. They’re carrying out attacks on minorities across the country to resist the pro-liberation forces,” he told a discussion meeting in the capital.Ekatturer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee organised the discussion, titled ‘Elimination of Communal Terrorism: The Role of Government and Citizens’ at Bilia auditorium.
Speaking as the chief guest, Anisul Haq said he has instructed the authorities concerned to apply the Special Power Act in conducting trial of attacks on minorities carried out after the 10th parliamentary polls.
Suggesting the trial of communal attacks in the Speedy Trial Tribunal, he said if the perpetrators are not brought to justice, such sectarian attacks will go on in the country.
The Law Minister said a social movement must be waged to boycott BNP-Jamaat with a view to putting up a resistance against communal terrorism.
Law Commission chairman justice ABM Khairul Haque, State Minister for Social Welfare Promod Mankin, Member of National Human Rights Commission Aroma Dutta, Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Oikya Parishad general secretary Rana Das Gupta and acting president of Ekatturer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee Shahriar Kabir, spoke at the discussion held with Committee’s advisory council acting president Borhan Uddin Khan Jahangir in the chair. – UNB
