April 05, 2008	Saturday	Rabi-ul-Awwal 27, 1429

DHAKA, April 4: A group of Bangladeshi war veterans

and intellectuals has published a list of alleged war criminals from the country’s 1971 independence struggle with Pakistan, an official said on Friday.

The publication of the list of nearly 1,600 names comes amid growing calls for prosecutions, or at the least the setting up of a post-apartheid South African-style truth commission.

“Out of the 1,597 people on the list, 369 are Pakistani army personnel; the rest are Bangladeshi collaborators,” said M.A. Hasan of the War Crimes Fact Finding Committee.

He said around half of those listed were still alive.—AFP