It is reasonable to demand that the party show remorse or seek forgiveness,” said BNP leader Nazrul Islam Khan. The remark follows the resignation of top Jamaat leader Abdur Razzaq, who left the party after “failing to persuade it to apologise for anti-liberation role”. But according to the BNP leader, those responsible for ‘killing’ democracy must also apologise, raising allegations of vote rigging in the Dec 30 polls against ruling Awami League. The groups were notorious for engaging in genocide, mass killing, rape, looting and other war crimes during the Liberation War. But the calls for Jamaat to apologise had gone unheeded until the resignation of Razzaq, the man who had led the defence of Jamaat leaders convicted of war crimes.

Source: bd News24 February 20, 2019 11:23 UTC