The United States will help Bangladesh stage "open and transparent" trials for crimes against humanity committed during the 40-year-old Bangladesh war for independence, a visiting US envoy said on Thursday. Bangladesh last year arrested six people, including five leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami, the principal ally of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), charged with various war crimes. "The US government will help Bangladesh hold an open and transparent war crime trial with the rights of defence for the accused," Stephen Rapp, US ambassador-at-large for war crimes issues, told a news conference. US officials would advise how to ensure the right to defence, he said. They would also help investigators gather evidence. "Justice in Dhaka against war crimes will prevent recurrence of such offences elsewhere in the world," Rapp said, emphasising on the need of the trials even 40 years after they were committed.
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