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Quader Mollah ordered killing

Prosecution tells ICT of war crimes charges

Staff Correspondent
Pakistani soldiers and Biharis killed six members of a family in the evening of March 26, 1971 allegedly at the instruction of Jamaat leader Abdul Quader Mollah.
The prosecution said this while reading out formal charges during hearing on chargeframing against Jamaat-e Islami Assistant Secretary General Quader Mollah before the International Crimes Tribunal yesterday.
The Pakistan army and Biharis led by Quader Mollah chased Hazrat Ali Lashkar, a tailor at Mirpur-12 in Dhaka, from his shop as he had attended several meetings organised by pro-liberation forces and chanted Joy Bangla slogans there, said prosecutor Mohammad Ali.
Panicked Ali reached his house and shut the door. But after some time the Pakistani soldiers and their collaborators arrived there and asked the household to open the door, he said.
The Pakistani soldiers and the collaborators threatened to kill everyone in the house by blasting bombs if they did not let them in. They, how-
ever, did explode a bomb.
As Ali opened the door, the army and their collaborators shot him. When his pregnant wife Amena Begum approached to save him, they slit her throat, the prosecutor added.
The Pakistani soldiers and their collaborators also slaughtered Ali's nine-year-old third daughter and around seven-year-old fourth daughter Taslima. They also threw his two-year-old son Babu on the ground to death at the instruction and in presence of Quader Mollah, he continued.
Ali's first and second daughters were hiding under the bed when the Pakistani military arrived. The second daughter, who was 11, came out seeing the deaths of her family members one by one. Then 10 to 12 army personnel raped and killed her, the prosecutorsaid.
Ali's first daughter Momena Begum, who was married, fainted seeing the killings. She recovered after three hours and fled from the house.
Momena is now a prosecution witness against Quader Mollah, the prosecutor said, adding, the incidents took place between 6:00pm and 8:00pm on March 26,1971.
Mohammad Ali alleged Quader Mollah is responsible for killing thousands of Bengalis like Ali and his family during the Liberation War.
The charge of killing this family against Quader Mollah was brought in a supplementary petition by the prosecution on January 17 before the tribunal.
Mohammad Ali and another prosecutor Hasan Mahmud yesterday read out the three-page supplementary petition along with the 44-page original one before the court.
The three-judge tribunal headed by Justice Nizamul Huq fixed 2:00pm today for hearing arguments on the petition.
Earlier on December 18 last year, the prosecution submitted seven specific crimes against humanity charges against Quader Mollah before the tribunal, which took the charges into cognisance on December 28.
Quader Mollah is among six Jamaat and two BNP leaders who are facing charges of crimes against humanity at the tribunal.
Concluding reading out the formal charges, prosecutor Mohammad Ali yesterday told the tribunal Quader was individually and joindy involved in killings, arsons, rapes, tortures, looting and other offences and they have enough evidence and documents to prove the charges.
He said Quader Mollah was known as a butcher since he and his accomplices --Razakars and Al Badrs — had created an awful and horrendous scenario at Mirpur, Kalyanpur and Mohammadpur by committing crimes against humanity.
Pakistan army in collaboration with Quader Mollah and his accomplices killed more than 344 pro-liberation people at Alubdi village in Mirpur on April 24, 1971, he said. Mollah was responsible for killing one Meherunnesa of Mirpur, one Pallab, a student of Mirpur Bangla College, on April 5 and Khandker Abu Taleb at Mirpur Bus Stand on March 29, and 11 people at Shaheed Nagar of Keraniganj on November 25, 1971, he added.
During yesterday's proceedings, the tribunal asked the prosecution to correct the "factual mistakes" on the history of Liberation War and its previous events stated in the formal charges against Quader Mollah.
"Besides printing mistakes, there are some mistakes of facts in the formal charges," commented Justice Nizamul Huq.
The court also asked the prosecutors to supply a corrected copy of formal charges to the defence.