Nation won't forgive protectors of Bangabandhu's killers: Qamrul

State Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Advocate Qamrul Islam on Saturday said the nation would not forgive those who had saved the killers of Bangabandhu through promulgation of an indemnity ordinance.

Trials of all killings committed during the illegal rule of General Ziaur Rahman would be held on the soil of this land, he said speaking as the chief guest at a discussion meeting marking the National Mourning Day.

Pachattorer Ghatok Dalal Nirmul Committee organised the discussion at the Photojournalists Association auditorium in the city, said a press release.

The state minister said the defeated forces of 1971 and the killers of 1975 are dominating the BNP of Khaleda Zia.

Presided over by Pachattorer Ghatok Dalal Nirmul Committee Dhaka City Committee President Mofazzal Hossain Ratan, the meeting was also addressed by Awami League Information and Research Secretary Advocate Afzal Hosain, Awami Swechchhasebak League Acting President Advocate Molla M Abu Kauser, Pachattorer Ghatok Dalal Nirmul Committee Central Convenor Akhtar Hossain and Joint Convenors Faruque Ahmed and Kazi Nizamuddin Shaheen.

The speakers called for bringing back the fugitive condemned killers of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman to executive the court verdict fully.

They pledged to try the war criminals of 1971 and build a digital Bangladesh.