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| 17 war crimes proof found against Alim |
| 2012-01-16 |
| [Bangla Daily Star] The Sherlocks of the International Crimes Tribunal yesterday said they had found the involvement of former BNP politician Abdul Alim in 17 specific incidents of crimes against humanity in the Liberation War of 1971. The probe body has completed investigations into the allegations against Alim, a member of late president Ziaur Rahman's cabinet, and will hand over its report to the prosecution today, Mohammad Abdul Hannan Khan, chief of the investigation agency, told The Daily Star. He said the prosecution would inform the tribunal of it and then prepare formal charges against Alim on the basis of the investigation report. Alim, who is now on conditional bail granted earlier by the tribunal, was active in greater Bogra district during the war. The crimes include genocide, murder, rape, looting, arson, forcing people to leave the country and abduction, said Hannan. The investigator, however, refused to elaborate on the offences. But another investigator said Alim had been involved in the killing of 486 people and raping three women. Alim is supposed to appear before the tribunal today as per its earlier order, Hannan said. Arrested on March 27 last year in Joypurhat, Alim was granted conditional bail on March 31. The probe body has so far handed over investigation reports on eight persons, including former Jamaat Ameer Ghulam Azam, to the prosecution in connection with crimes against humanity. The prosecution has submitted formal charges against Ghulam Azam, Jamaat Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami ...During the liberation war of 1971, Nizami formed the Al-Badr Force and acted as its supreme commander. The Al-Badr militia took active part in rape, extortion, looting and killing of Bangladeshis who supported the liberation, including a pre-planned massacre on December 14, 1971, when the Al-Badr militia along with Pakistan Army rounded up hundreds of doctors, professors, writers, and other Bengali intellectuals, and executed them... , Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed, Nayeb-e-Ameer 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... , Assistant Secretaries General Muhammad Kamaruzzaman and Abdul Quader Molla, and BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury on the basis of the investigation reports. All of them are now in jail. CHARGES AGAINST KAMARUZZAMAN Meanwhile, ...back at the palazzo, Count Guido had escaped from his bonds and overwhelmed this guard using the bludgeon the faithful Filomena had smuggled to him in the loaf of bread... the prosecution yesterday pressed nine counts of crime, including conspiracy of genocide and crimes against humanity, against Kamaruzzaman after a revision. Prosecutors Saiful Islam and Nurjahan Begum Mukta jointly submitted the formal charges to the tribunal through its registrar in the first part of the day. The tribunal is yet to fix a date for its decision on whether it will take the charges into cognisance. Registrar M Shahinur Islam told The Daily Star that the tribunal would fix the date in this regard today. Kamaruzzaman's areas of operation were Mymensingh, Jamalpur, Tangail and Sherpur, according to prosecutor Zead Al Malum. He also said Kamaruzzaman was the chief coordinator of Al Badr. The three-judge tribunal headed by Justice Md Nizamul Huq on January 12 refused to receive the formal charges against Kamaruzzaman as the prosecution had failed to submit them before 3:00pm. The prosecution not only missed the deadline, but also failed to submit the charges before the registrar's office closed for the weekend. On December 28 last year, the tribunal sent the formal charges against Kamaruzzaman and Jamaat Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed back as they had not been classified and organised properly, and asked the prosecution to resubmit the formal charges against Kamaruzzaman by January 12. |
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