s so how could there chowdhury being sentenced hanging by death by hanging sorry what is in distance going to be on that i can take a hard line. see as far is this issue is concerned like any other country. right they have their own laws they have a legal system that is like a legal system in a lot of countries it's into bend the judiciary is independent of the executive this is a very very sensitive issue in bangladesh because. the entire national movement was and was based on certain principles and aspirations which need closure to the sense of betrayal that the freedom fighters felt and therefore after all these years and several rounds of tragedy in bangladesh and attempted to find clothes through the judiciary and through open public trial something that they are attempting to do now. it's for their own people really to judge to accept or to moderate it or modify it and i think it would be it really would not be fair on our part to comment on how they bring closure to a very very sad and very painful past we were part of it we did we did fight along with their freedom fighters f

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