Bangladesh might consider banning Jamaat-e-Islami
6 March 2013 7:23 AM IST
Bangladesh government on Tuesday said it would ‘definitely consider’ the demand for a ban on fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami which has been waging a violent protest across the country to halt trial of its top leaders for 1971 war crimes.
Answering a question, Foreign Minister Dipu Moni said there has been a demand about banning Jamaat and ‘the government will definitely consider it’. She said the Election Commission too should consider the demand as what Jamaat has been doing is ‘pure and simple terrorism’. She compared the violence unleashed by Jamaat ever since its Vice President Delwar Hossan Sayeed was sentenced to death by a war crimes tribunal last Thursday, which left more than 80 dead, to the genocide by Pakistani troops in 1971.
Answering a question, Foreign Minister Dipu Moni said there has been a demand about banning Jamaat and ‘the government will definitely consider it’. She said the Election Commission too should consider the demand as what Jamaat has been doing is ‘pure and simple terrorism’. She compared the violence unleashed by Jamaat ever since its Vice President Delwar Hossan Sayeed was sentenced to death by a war crimes tribunal last Thursday, which left more than 80 dead, to the genocide by Pakistani troops in 1971.
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