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Article: A New Move to Bring Mujibur Killers to Trial

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November 1, 1996
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Ershadul Huq
India Abroad
11-01-1996
A New Move to Bring Mujibur Killers to Trial.

The Awami League government is working toward repealing the 1975 indemnity ordinance that barred the trial of the killers of the country's founder, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

Official sources said last week that the State Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs, Abdul Matin Khasru, had submitted a draft bill to the Cabinet, with an opinion from the Law Commission. The bill is likely to come up at the next session of Parliament, scheduled to start Nov. 1.

Based on the opinion of several constitutional experts, Sheikh Hasina's government has concluded that the ordinance can be repealed by a simple majority, rather ...

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