Abrar Hussain of DOT : Jatyia Oikyafront has pledged forming a ‘Truth and Reconciliation Commission’ to investigate and resolve the enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killings and false cases filed in the last 10 years.
In its manifesto, the opposition alliance described the blueprint of its Commission, saying it will involve eminent academics, social workers and lawyers and the cases would be resolved through individual pardoning and compensation.
Nagorik Oikya convener Mahmudur Rahman Manna read out the manifesto in a press briefing at a hotel in the capital yesterday, according to a report by The Daily Star. Manna also said the pledges made in the election charter would be implemented within five years if the front voted to power.
The manifesto also included objectives such as ending extrajudicial killings and forced disappearances, scrapping the Digital Security Act, stopping torture in police custody and the continuation of the War Crimes Trials. The manifesto also includes that none would hold the post of prime minister for two terms consecutively, amendment would be brought in Article 70 of the constitution through discussion.
The 11-point goal announced by the opposition alliance also includes ensuring checks and balances in the state power, decentralization of administration, freeing MPs from the stringent restrictions imposed on them under article 70 of the constitution, formation of a constitutional commission to make appointments to all constitutional and other important posts and full independence of the judiciary.
The alliance also announced a seven-point demand, including the one for holding the next parliamentary election under a nonpartisan government, dissolution of parliament before the polls and reconstitution of the Election Commission.