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Mojaheed faces 34 charges

Tribunal accepts

Staff Correspondent
The International Crimes Tribunal yesterday accepted the charges against Jamaat-e-Islami leader Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed in connection with crimes against humanity during the Liberation War
and fixed February 23 for hearing on the charge framing.
The prosecution on January 16 submitted 34 charges of crimes against humanity against Mojaheed. Sources told The Daily Star then that the charges against the Jamaat-e-Islami secretary general were of being involved in the killings of many, including freedom fighters and intellectuals, during the war in 1971.
The court yesterday said it examined the formal charges, probe reports and documents submitted by the prosecution, and preliminarily found that there is enough evidence for a trial against Mojaheed, now in jail.
It asked the prosecution to submit copies of formal charges and other relevant documents to the office of tribunal registrar by January 31 so that Mojaheed's lawyers can collect those for his defence.
The three-judge tribunal headed by its Chairman Justice Md Nizamul Huq ordered the defence to collect the copies from the tribunal registrar's office on February 1.
During the proceedings, the tribunal expressed the hope that none from the prosecution or the defence would disclose to the media the charges brought against the accused as the hearing on them is pending.
Justice Nizamul Huq said, "The journalists are so powerful and they want to find out everything.”
His comment came when Mojaheed's counsel Munshi Ahsan Kabir told the court that the prosecution disclosed the charges against the accused to the media even before the defence got hold of them.
The defence was prejudiced due to disclosure of the charges, as the defence could not give any reply to the prosecution without getting the charges, hesaid.
The tribunal chairman said the court agrees with the counsel.
Following the tribunal's remark, prosecutors refused to say anything to reporters about the charges brought against Mojaheed.
After the January 16 charge submission, sources told The Daily Star that the prosecutors found adequate evidence that Mojaheed, then secretary of
East Pakistan Islami Chhatra Sangha, had delivered speeches along with Ghulam Azam, then ameer of East Pakistan Jamaat-e-Islami and former ameer of Jamaat-e Islami, at different places in Dhaka, Rangpur, Bogra, Comilla, Pabna and Faridpur in 1971.
They provoked and instigated the then Pakistani occupation forces and their collaborators—Razakar, Al Badr, Al Shams and other organisa-tions--in killing proliberation innocent people.
Mojaheed, the then chief of Al Badr in East Pakistan, was also involved in the killing of intellectuals on December 14, 1971, two days before Bangladesh was liberated, the sources had said.
The Pakistan army had established a camp at Physical Training Institute in Dhaka. The Razakars, Al Badrs and Al Shams took over the charge of the camp to run operations against “miscreants and Indian intruders", the sources said after the January 16 charge submission against Mojaheed.
Ghulam Azam, Motiur Rahman Nizami, incumbent ameer of Jamaat-e Islami and the then president of East Pakistan Islami Chhatra Sangha, and Mojaheed and other leaders of the party used to go to the camp to lead the operations, the sources claimed.
The International Crimes Tribunal has so far accepted formal charges against Ghulam Azam, Nizami, Jamaat-e Islami Nayeb-e Ameer Delawar Hossain Sayedee, and its assistant secretaries general Muhammad Kamaruzzaman and Abdul Quader Mollah and BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury in connection with crimes against humanity.
The tribunal on December 28 last year returned the formal charges brought against Mojaheed to the prosecution saying that the charges were not submitted properly 'arranged' and 'classified'.