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Kamaruzzaman's Trial

ICT hears charges

Staff Correspondent
The prosecution for the second time read out the formal charges against Jamaat leader Muhammad Kamaruzzaman before an International Crimes Tribunal.
Meanwhile, counsels for Jamaat leader Abdul Quader Mollah yesterday sought discharge of their client from charges of crimes against humanity at TObunal-2 claiming that the allegations brought against him were “false, fabricated and concocted”.
The prosecution had read out the charges against Kamaruzzaman in front of the International Crimes Tribunal-1 before the case was transferred to International Crimes Tribunal-2 on April 16.
Prosecutor AKM Saiful Islam yesterday read out the formal charges against Kamaruzzaman again in front of Tribunal-2.
The three-member Tribunal-2, headed by Justice ATM Fazle Kabir with members Justice Obaidul Hassan and Judge M Shahinur Islam, fixed May 13 to hear the defence's arguments on charge framing.
Kamaruzzaman, 60, facing nine charges of crimes against humanity committed during the Liberation War, was produced before the court yesterday.
Saiful Islam yesterday said Kamaruzzaman was the key organiser of Al-Badr in Mymensingh district during the Liberation War. He said Kamaruzzaman was
involved in the killing of 120 men in a village of Sherpur district.
Kamaruzzaman planned the murders in Shohagpur village of Nalitalbari upazila on July 25, 1971. Many women were also raped on that day, said the prosecutor.
“Since then, the village is known as "Bidhoba Polli [Village ofWidows]he said.
Shahid Golam Mostafa Talukder, a freedom fighter from Sherpur, was abducted, tortured and killed on the orders of Kamaruzzaman, said Saiful.
Mostafa was picked up on August 23, said the prosecutor, adding that he was taken to the house of Surendra Mohon Saha, which was turned into an Al-Badr camp during the war.
There he was brutally tortured and shot dead, said Saiful Islam.
Pieces of evidence point out that Kamaruzzaman was involved in many atrocities committed by the Al-Badr in Jamalpur, Sherpur and other areas, Saiful claimed.
He also mentioned around 10 other incidents of crimes allegedly committed by the Jamaat leaders.
Yesterday's proceeding started around 10:40am when Farid Uddin Khan, one of Abdul Quader's counsels,
read out a petition seeking discharge of his client from the accusations brought by the prosecution.
The defence made the plea in response to the prosecution's prayer to indict the Jamaat leader who is facing seven charges of crimes against humanity allegedly committed during the Liberation War in 1971.
Farid said Quader Mollah never went to Mirpur and Keraniganj during the Liberation War in 1971, as claimed by the prosecution.
The prosecution had said Quader was known as a butcher since he and his accomplices—Razakars and Al Badrs—created a horrendous situation in Mirpur and surrounded areas committing crimes against humanity.
“The allegations brought against him is false, fabricated and concocted, the object of those allegation is only to harass him with a political motive,” claimed Farid.
The tribunal fixed today to hear the defence argument on the discharge petition.
Kamaruzzaman and Quader Mollah are among eight Jamaat and BNP leaders facing crimes against humanity charges at the two tribunals.