Home secretary level talks between India and Bangladesh; India pays compensation to the family of a Bangladeshi national killed by the BSF; War Crimes Verdict
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    • (JULY 15-21)

    According to reports, India assured Bangladesh that it would try to have the bilateral land boundary agreement passed in the coming monsoon session of parliament beginning on August 5. The assurance came at a meeting of senior officials from both sides of the Joint Working Group at Taj Palace Hotel in New Delhi in the run-up to the meeting of home secretaries of the two countries on July 19, 2013. A 12-member Bangladeshi delegation led by Senior Home Secretary CQK Mustaq Ahmed came to India for the talk. 1 During the home secretary level meeting, Bangladesh shared with India more information about the whereabouts of some killers of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, while New Delhi conveyed that it would intensify the hunt for the fugitives. 2

    Reports noted that the Indian government paid a compensation of five lakh Indian rupees to the family of a Bangladeshi national who was killed by the BSF in Rajshahi three years ago. The cheque had been handed over to Border Guard Bangladesh during a flag meeting at Shingpara BSF camp on July 12, 2013. 3

    In other development, according to reports, forty-two years after liberation, a panel of judges on July 15, 2013 sentenced Ghulam Azam to 90 years in prison for masterminding crimes against humanity, genocide and other wartime offences in 1971. The former Jamaat chief, now 91, was found guilty on all five charges the prosecution stacked against him, according to the verdict by International Crimes Tribunal-1. 4 Following the verdict, Jamaat-Shibir activists initiated rampage and clashed with law enforcers in different parts of the country. 5 In the meanwhile, 65-year-old Jamaat-e-Islami secretary general Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed was also sentenced to death on July 17, 2013 for his role in crimes against humanity, including the mass extermination of intellectuals towards the end of the Liberation War in 1971. 6

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