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| Tribunal told of brutal torture |
| 2011-12-30 |
| [Bangla Daily Star] Witness Mofizuddin Poshari yesterday told the International Crimes Tribunal that Jamaat-e-Islami ... The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independentbranch there since 1975. It close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... leader Delwar Hossain Sayeedi ...Islamic orator and politician. He was a former Member of Parliament in the National Assembly of Bangladesh from 1996 to 2008, and is one of the most prominent leaders of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami... along with other collaborators tortured him in a collaborators' camp at Parerhaat of Pirojpur in 1971. The collaborators broke his finger, injured his legs, pelvis, and slammed him on the cement floor which left him with bloody lips and broken teeth, Mofizuddin said. Mofizuddin Poshari, 72, gave his deposition to the three-member tribunal led by its Chairman Justice Md Nizamul Huq. He is the seventh of the 68 prosecution witnesses scheduled to testify in a case against Sayeedi regarding crimes against humanity committed during the Liberation War of 1971. He also narrated how Pak soldiers shot Ibrahim Kutti on the Parerhaat Bridge after consulting with Sayeedi. Mofiz's cousin, sixth prosecution witness Manik Poshari, had also narrated to the tribunal how Mofiz and Kutti were captured and how Kutti was killed. "I heard a gunshot and Kutti screaming out 'maa' [mother] behind me. I looked back and saw that they had shot Kutti," he told the tribunal, "I was shivering in fear. "I looked back again and saw the Pak soldiers kicking Kutti's body towards the canal." Sayeedi's counsels began cross-examining Mofiz yesterday. They will resume the cross-examination on Sunday. Earlier, the tribunal started the day's proceedings at 10:41am with the absence of Delwar Hossain Sayeedi, who was at the hospital for his scheduled physiotherapy for back pains. |
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