[Bangla Daily Star] A prosecution witness 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...
had ordered the killing of Bisha Bali in Parerhaat of Pirojpur in 1971.
After consulting with Pak soldiers, Sayeedi told collaborators, "Shala ke guli kor! [shala means brother-in-law, which is also used as a term of abuse in Bangla, and 'guli kor' means shoot him]", said Altaf Hossain Hawlader in his testimony.
A collaborator then shot Bisha Bali, who had been tied to a coconut tree, Altaf said.
Mahbubul Alam Hawlader and Mahtabuddin Hawlader, the first and fifth prosecution witnesses, had also narrated how they saw Sayeedi order a collaborator to shoot Bisha Bali.
Altaf Hossain Hawlader, 58, the ninth prosecution witness, yesterday completed his deposition in a case filed against Sayeedi in connection with crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971.
Sayeedi, Nayeb-e-Ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami, is among five Jamaat and two BNP leaders who are facing war crimes charges at the tribunal.
After the deposition, the three-member tribunal headed by its chairman Justice Md Nizamul Huq, began recording the cross-examination of Altaf.
His cross-examination will continue today.