[Bangla Daily Star] Abdul Alim along with a Mighty Pak Army officer used to hold "trials" of people placed in long-term storageYouse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit!
at a Mighty Pak Army camp in Joypurhat during the Liberation War and kill captives through issuing "verdicts", an eyewitness said yesterday.
Abdus Samad Mondal, a detainee at the army camp at Joypurhat Sugar Mill who had faced the so-called trial, yesterday testified against Abdul Alim in the crimes against humanity case at the International Crimes Tribunal-2.
Samad, of Panchbibi, talked about his confinement, the role of Alim in the "trial" and how he got away in 1971.
Samad, the fifth prosecution witness in the case, also said the former Convention Moslem League leader had formed the Shanti Committee and the Razakar force in the then Joypurhat sub-division.
The Shanti Committee and the Razakars, two anti-liberation forces, collaborated with the Mighty Pak Army and committed genocide, mass killings and other crimes against humanity during the war, according to prosecution documents.
Alim, 81-one-year-old politician and former minister of Ziaur Rahman's cabinet, was present in the courtroom yesterday when Samad gave vivid descriptions of his "trial".