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17 war crimes proof found against Alim

Revised charges against Kamaruzzaman submitted

Staff Correspondent
The investigators of the International Crimes Tribunal yesterday said they had found the involvement of former BNP lawmaker Abdul Alim in 17 specific inci-
dents of crimes against humanity in the LiberationWar 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 nrenare 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 sub-
mitted formal charges against Ghulam Azam, Jamaat Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami, Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed, Nayeb-e-Ameer Delawar Hossain Sayedee, 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, 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.