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Bangladesh Collaborators (Special Tribunals) Order, 1972

( PRESIDENT'S ORDER NO. 8 OF 1972 )

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2. In this Order,¾

(a) “Code” means the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (Act V of 1898);

(b) “Collaborator” means a person who has¾

(i)   participated with or aided, or abetted the occupation army in maintaining, sustaining, strengthening, supporting or furthering the illegal occupation of Bangladesh by such army;

(ii)  rendered material assistance in any way whatsoever to the occupation army by any Act, whether by words, signs or conduct;

(iii)   waged war or abetted in waging war against the People's Republic of Bangladesh;

(iv)  actively resisted or sabotaged the efforts of the people and the liberation forces of Bangladesh in their liberation struggle against the occupation army;

 

 

(v) by a public statement or by voluntary participation in propagandas within and outside Bangladesh or by association in any delegation or committee or by participation in purported bye-elections attempted to aid or aided the occupation army in furthering its design of perpetrating its forcible occupation of Bangladesh.

Explanation¾ A person who has performed in good faith functions which he was required by any purported law in force at the material time to do shall not be deemed to be a collaborator:

Provided that a person who has performed functions the direct object or result of which was the killing of any member of the civil population or the liberation forces of Bangladesh or the destruction of their property or the rape of or criminal assault on their women-folk, even if done underany purported law passed by the occupation army, shall be deemed to be a collaborator.

(c) “Government”means the Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh;

(d) “Liberation forces”includes all forces of the People's Republic of Bangladesh engaged in the liberation of Bangladesh;

(e)  “Occupation army”means the Pakistan Armed Forces engaged in the occupation of Bangladesh;

(f)    “Special Tribunal”means a Tribunal set up under this Order.


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