, March 25 -- BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday said the collaborators of Pakistani occupation forces, who aided in the massacre during 1971, are now speaking out loudly.

"Those who had carried out the massacre at that time (during the 1971 Liberation War) are now speaking loudly. I don't want to name anyone. I don't want to create bitterness. But history is history. No one can distort history," he said.

The BNP Secretary General made the remarks while presiding over a discussion in the city on the occasion of the 55th Independence Day.

BNP arranged the event at the Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh (IEB) Auditorium.

Mirza Fakhrul said the Pakistani army has not apologized yet for the massacre, though the...