Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmad said, we have given the indemnity of the warriors to the July warriors, we have to agree to it nationally.
He said this while participating in the dialogue titled ‘Nation Human Rights Ordinance, Expectations for New Parliament’ at the Bangladesh-China Friendship Conference Center in Agargaon of the capital on Wednesday.
The Home Minister said that if the people who took part in the coup are in the hands of There are some human rights violations, nowadays there is an insinence that they (the victims) do not have the right to file a case? Why did you give indemnity?
He said, "The state forces have attacked us and more than 1400 people have been martyred in the firing of them, now if against them." We cannot call everything a human rights violation, that is, that our actions are such that human rights are violated, we have to give the freedom fighters a freed from the July 1999. We must agree on a national basis.
The Home Minister also mentioned that there has been a nation-wide consensus on the issue of liberation of this debt.
‘We have already thought that anarchy may be created after the fall of fascism, we may have to see violence and revenge. I have done the reconciliation, I kept the example of South Africa. They have a Truth Commission. We will have a half-truth commission here.’
‘It's for justice. Anyway, we have to form our National Reconciliation Commission. It's our commitment. In the meantime we want to keep the unity of the nation and establish peace,’ he added.
