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People to be invited to be party in war criminal case

Court Correspondent
A Dhaka court has allowed a petitioner to run advertisement in newspapers, inviting people or institutions to become parties in a case against Jamaat-e-Islami's ex-amir Golam Azam, current Amir Motiur Rahman Nizami and 34 others to declare them war criminals.
Dhaka Judge's court lawyers Mohammad Liton Miah, Mohammad Safayat Hossain Sajib and Rajeeb Ahmed filed the civil case on November 13 last year.
The 36 persons include Golam Azam, Jamaat Amir Motiur Rahman Nizami, Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojahid, former
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prime minister Khaleda Zia's parliamentary affairs adviser Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, Jamaat leaders Delwar Hossain Saidee, Mohammad Qamaruzzaman and Abdul Kader Mollah.
After yesterday's hearing, Judge Iftekhar Ahmed of the Ninth Assistant Judge’s Court directed the plaintiffs to publish an advertisement in two national Bangla dailies asking interested people or. institutions to be parties to contest the case for public interest.
The court also directed the plaintiffs to submit the copy of the advertisement to it on February 18.
The chief election com-missioner, Election Commission secretary and deputy commissioner (DC) of Dhaka have also been made pro-forma defendants in the case.
In their petition the plaintiffs said no war criminals are permitted to form any political party and they are also disqualified from participating in any elections in the country.
The plaintiffs mentioned that Golam Azam and 35 others were identified as war criminals soon after the Liberation War but are yet to be brought under trial.
During the Liberation War, Golam Azam, Nizami, Mojahid and others formed local militia groups AJ-Badar, Al-Shams and Razakars, which were involved in killing around 30 lakh people and violating over three lakh women.
These anti-Liberation War forces also killed a large number of intellectuals on November 14,1971, the three lawyers stated in their complaint.
Earlier on November 5 last year, the Sector Commanders Forum also published a list of 50 war criminals.