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Mojaheed called for eliminating freedom fighters

Prosecution tells ICT of his wartime role

Staff Correspondent
Jamaat leader All Ahsan Muhammad Mojaheed through speeches and media statements provoked his followers to “eliminate” freedom fighters and pro-liberation Bangalees in 1971, the prosecution told International Crimes Tribunal-2 yesterday.
In a joint statement, Mojaheed, the then general secretary of East Pakistan Islami Chhatra Sangha (ICS), accused "miscreants” of the killing of Mostafa Al Madani, a collaborator of the then Pakistan army, and warned that "the miscreants would have to face the consequences", Prosecutor Mukhlesur Rahman Badal told the court.
“They [the anti-liberation forces] used to describe freedom fighters as miscreants and spies of India and thus used to incite their followers to eliminate the freedom fighters,” said the prosecutor, adding that the joint statement was published in Sangram on August 12,1971. FROM PAGE 20
The other signatories of the statement were Motiur Rahman Nizami, the then president of Nikhil Pakistan ICS, its secretary Mohammad Yunus, and Nurul Islam, president of East Pakistan ICS.
Provoked by such speeches, the members of Al Badr, Al Shams and ICS formed similar forces in different areas and continued with confinements, torture and killing during the Liberation War, said prosecu-torBadal.
In the formal charges, the prosecution mentioned 12 such incidents where the Jamaat leader had delivered speeches in rallies and given statements to newspapers.
The prosecution yesterday for the second time read out the formal charges containing the atrocities allegedly committed by Mojaheed during the Liberation War and pleaded that the court frame charges against the Jamaat leader.
Previously, the prosecution had read out the formal charges against Mojaheed, secretary general of the Jamaat-e-Islami, at the International Crimes Ttibunal-1 on March 11 and 20, before the case was transferred to Tribunal-2 on April 25.
Yesterday, prosecutor Badal read out 24 charges of abetment and complicity in 12 incidents and eight charges of torture, murder and genocide in eight incidents against Mojaheed.
The three-member tribunal, headed by Justice ATM Fazle Kabir and including Justice Obaidul Hassan and Judge M Shahinur Islam, adjourned the case proceedings until May 24 following a time petition by defence counsels.
The prosecutor charged the Jamaat leader with the murders of Rumi, son of writer Jahanara Imam, and journalist Sirajuddin Hossain.
On August 30, 1971, Rumi along with at least four others was killed after the Jamaat leader had told the Pakistani occupation army that they needed to be killed before a general amnesty was declared, said the prosecutor.
In another incident, Sirajuddin Hossain, the then executive editor of the daily
Ittefaq, was abducted on December 10,1971 by a group “controlled” and “directed" by Mojaheed, said the prosecutor, adding that Sirajuddin was never found after.
At one point, the chairman of the tribunal told the prosecutor that in many incidents he had not mentioned the reasons behind the killings and torture.
“You did not do your homework You have just mentioned [in formal charges, what the investigating officer had written [in his report],” said the tribunal chairman.
In reply, Badal told the court that the witnesses had mentioned the reasons in their statements and the prosecution did not bring it up to make the formal charge "shorter".
Mojaheed, a former minister of the BNP-led government, was produced in court yesterday.
CASE AGAINST ABDUL ALIM
Prosecutor Rana Dasgupta yesterday completed his arguments on the charge framing against former BNP lawmaker Abdul Alim in connection with the crimes against humanity he allegedly committed during the LiberationWar.
The Tribunal-2 adjourned the case proceedings until May 23, when the defence is scheduled to place their arguments.
Earlier, the defence said Alim was arrested under the Collaborators Act in 1972 but released due to scanty evidence. It would be double jeopardy if he was tried again, argued defence counsel.
In response, Rana Dasgupta referred to Article 35(2) of the constitution where it is stated, "No person shall be prosecuted and punished for the same offence more than once.”
But the accused was "neither convicted nor acquitted” in the charges, so there is no bar to holding the trial against him, said the prosecutor who placed an observation of the Tribunal-1 supporting his arguments.
The prosecutor pleaded that the court frame charges against the former minister.
Alim, who is facing 74 charges of crimes against humanity, was present in court yesterday.