The endorsement of the proposal by members of parliament means that a law should be designed to punish the guilty of defaming and distorting the history of genocide and the Liberation War, MP Bappy said. Nine parliament members called for corrections, all suggesting the addition of ‘immediately’ or ‘on an urgent basis’ to the proposal. What we need now is a law for punishing manipulators of genocide and Liberation War history. There are 17 countries in the world that have Holocaust denial law,” said MP Bappy. Last year, Parliament passed a proposal presented by MP Bappy for confiscating assets of the nation’s father’s killers and convicted war criminals.

Source: bd News24 May 04, 2017 15:49 UTC