The government has decided to amend the recently released list of collaborators, who helped the Pakistan occupation forces during the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971.
The Ministry of Liberation War Affairs on Tuesday announced the development in a statement highlighting Minister AKM Mozammel Huq's remarks on the list of the members of anti-liberation forces Razakar, Al-Badr, and Al-Shams earlier in the day.
The names of people, who did not actually oppose Bangladesh's independence, will be removed from the list that was published on Sunday, reports bdnews24.com.
In its statement, the Ministry of Liberation War Affairs reiterated that it did not make any input into the list of 10,789 members of Razakar, Al-Badr, Al-Shams, Shanti Committee and other anti-liberation forces published on Dec 15. The home ministry-prepared list was published without any change, it said.
"There have been complaints that a lot of the names mentioned in the list were not members of Razakar, Al-Badr, Al-Shams, Shanti Committee or any other anti-liberation forces but rather they were pro-indepence or freedom fighters. We are looking into how those names got into the list."
The ministry said it will remove the names that have 'mistakenly' been included in the list upon reviewing applications from those who were aggrieved by it.
The list has been the subject of much conjecture as it included gazetted freedom fighter Advocate Tapan Kumar Chakrabarty, who fought against the Pakistani Army on the frontline of the battlefield under the leadership of Major Abdul Jalil of the Liberation War Sector No. 9.