Victims' Right

Consideration of victims' rights now stand universally recognised. It is reckoned that the Court in sentencing an offender should not confine itself to the fundamental rights of the accused only, but must also take account of the victims' predicaments and rights. The Appellate Division is of view this concept is of particular importance in the context of the atrocities that were perpetrated during glorious war of liberation, as literally, the af entire populace, save a handful of anti eliberationists, were victims of those atrocities. Muhammad Kamaruzzaman =VS= Chief Prosecutor, International e Crimes Tribunal, Dhaka, [4 LM (AD) 392]