The Shahbagh demonstrators on Sunday submitted a
memorandum to the speaker of the Jatiya Sangsad to press home 6-point charter
of demands.
The demands include death sentence for all war criminals
including Abdul Quader Molla, immediate amendment to the International Crimes
(Tribunals) Act making allowing the prosecution to appeal against verdict and
ensuring verdict from Appellate Division in three months.
A delegation of the protesters, on the sixth day of their
spontaneous protests, met speaker Abdul Hamid at his office in the afternoon
and handed over the memorandum.
The 3-page memorandum also demanded immediate arrest and
tough action against Jamaat-Shibir activists who had threatened for launching
civil war and stern actions against the political parties, force, persons and
institutions been trying to save war criminals and opposing the process of the
ongoing war crimes trial.
They also demanded the immediate arrest of collaborators,
who had been sentenced, and those who were under the trial and was released
after 1975 and their trial under the war crimes tribunals.
They also demanded a ban on all the enterprises, Islami
Bank, IBN Sina hospital, Focus and Retina Coaching Centre, media including
Digangta TV, Daily Nayadiganta, Daily Amardesh, Daily Sangram and Sonar Bangla
Blog. and all cultural institutions run by war criminals. (Read the originalstory)