The retired military officer, Col M Hanif, claims that the killings, tortures, rapes and other human rights
...which are usually entirely different from personal
liberty...
violations that may have taken place in 1971 were mainly the results of internal conflicts among Bangalee groups.
Hanif came up with the claim in a column published in the Pakistain Observer on Saturday.
The article titled "Sham trials in Bangladesh" also questions the number of three million people having died and 200,000 women having been raped during Bangladesh's Liberation War in 1971. Hanif terms the numbers a propaganda by the Awami League.
Hanif claims that Bangladesh is demanding trial of the former members of the Pakistain Army on the directive of India to tarnish Pakistain's and its army's international image and break up Pakistain and Bangladesh's friendly relations.
Terming Bangladesh's 1971 war of independence an "Indian engineered separatist struggle," Hanif says India also wants tense relations between the Awami League and the BNP as Bangladesh-Pakistain relations have been good in times of BNP governments.
He praises the BNP for claiming that the war crimes accused were not given the right of a fair trial. "
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, BNP Chairperson, has gone so far as to publicly reject the legitimacy of tribunals," Hamid writes in his article.
Hamid, who works for the Islamabad Policy Research Institute, also claims that a fair trial is being denied to the accused by the Awami League government by amending rules and making International Crimes Tribunal Act 1973 too biased.