An Assessment of the International Crimes Tribunal Bangladesh

The model of the Bangladeshi Tribunal is quite different from other international crimes Tribunals. This is because of the nature of the Tribunal which is purely domestic and it runs without any international assistance. However the International Crimes (Tribunals) Act 1973 [as amended in 2009] has been criticized by several international organizations. There has been a reasonable amount of doubt about fairness and standard of the tribunal. Therefore it is hard to say that the tribunal is contributing anything significant to the international criminal justice. Perhaps the tribunal would have been able to deliver justice if some changes were made. such as the ones illustrated in the research. However the Tribunal is not completely without any significant impact as it has brought the suspected criminals before the Tribunal more than 40 years after the crimes committed.