The Daily Star
The Bangladesh Collaborators’ (Special Tribunal) Order was enacted by the Parliament in 1972 (President’s Order No. VIII, 1972) to hold trials of those accused of collaboration with the Pakistan army. This was followed by the adoption of International Crimes (Tribunal) Act of 1973 (Act No. XIX of 1973) to “provide for the detention, prosecution and punishment of persons for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and other crimes under international law†.
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