Names of at least seven freedom fighters have appeared on the official list of Razakars the government published on Sunday.
Even astonishing as it may seem, Ghulam Arieff Tipoo, the chief prosecutor of the International Crimes Tribunal that prosecutes the war crimes committed in 1971, has been named on the list, according to local media reports.
This year, he was honoured with the Ekushey Padak, a highly prestigious civilian award of the state, for his roles during the 1952 language movement.
Asked, liberation war affairs minister AKM Mozammel Haque said the government had nothing to do with the names of freedom fighters appearing on the official list of freedom fighters.
"We just published the one prepared in 1971.”
The minister asked the aggrieved freedom fighters or their families to come and see for themselves how the list was prepared and how their names got on it.
He assured that the list could be corrected only if any claims were found to be true.
The next year, on the Independence Day (March 26), the government has planned to publish a final list of freedom fighters.
