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War Crimes Trial

Elderly witness narrates carnage at Rangunia

Staff Correspondent
Arunangshu Bimol Chowdhury took refuge in another village when he heard the Pakistani army was heading to his area. A few hours later he returned home to find eight of his relatives, including three brothers and two sisters-in-law, dead.
Arunangshu, a local doctor of Ranighat village in Rangunia, Chittagong, was testifying before International Crimes Tribunal-1 yesterday in the war crimes case against Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury.
The prosecution witness, who is about 80 in his 35-minute deposition gave a brief experience of the Liberation War but mentioned nothing about the war crimes accused.
On that day, chairman of Rajanagar, Kaykobad Chowdhury, advised him to leave Jagotmollopara with his family saying there would bean attack by the Pakistan army.
He along with his family members moved to Binajuri which is two miles away from Jagotmollopara village.
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"After one or two hours I heard everyone in Jagotmollopara had been shot and killed," he said, adding, a few hours later he went to his village to witness the incident on his own.
"On my way home, I found my bhabi [brother's wife] Jyotsnabala Chowdhury was shot,” said Arunangshu as he broke into tears.
By that time looting began in Binajuri, said the witness, adding, he did not know who had committed this as he was not there.
Arunangshu left Bangladesh for India later.
The witness said he could not remember whether the investigation officer of the case had interrogated him.
Defence counsel Ahsanul Huq Heena on completion of the testimony declined to cross-examine the witness since he did not say a word against his client.
BNP leader Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury, MP, was present at the dock. The tribunal adjourned the proceedings of the case until September 23.
WITNESS TESTIFIED FOR SAYEDEE
A defence witness in the war crimes case against Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delawar Hossain Sayedee yesterday told the tribunal no one had mentioned Sayedee as a Razakar (collaborator of the Pakistan occupation force) to Capt Ziauddin, who led freedom fighters in Pirojpur
and adjacent areas during theWar.
The witness — Khashrul Alam who was a freedom fighter — said during a visit by Capt Ziauddin locals mentioned the names of several notorious Razakars, including Sekandar Sikdar, Danesh Molla and Moslem Moulana.
Khashrul added he knew Sayedee and also met him after independence.
Following the deposition, the prosecutor cross-examined him.
Sayedee, facing trial on 20 charges of crimes against humanity committed in 1971, was present at the tribunal.
WITNESS AGAINST GHULAM AZAM
Azab Uddin Mia, an assistant librarian of Bangla Academy, yesterday gave deposition as a seizure list witness of another war crimes accused, former Jamaat ameer Ghulam Azam.
He told the tribunal he had supplied different issues of newspapers of 1971 as per the demand of Motiur Rahman, investigation officer of the case.
Azab said the investigation officer scanned different reports and had them attested by the acting chief librarian Mobarak Hossain.
Ghulam Azam, facing five charges based on 60 incidents of crimes against humanity, was hauled before the tribunal.
MOBARAK HOSSAIN BAIL EXTENDED
The tribunal yesterday extended bail by two months to war crimes sus-
pect Mobarak Hossain with caution of not breaking the bail conditions.
In his order, Justice Nizamul Huq ordered a submission of the progress report of investigation on November 15. Mobarak was also asked to be present at the tribunal on the day.
Earlier, the prosecution urged the tribunal to cancel Mobarak's bail saying he was holding out "threats" to the witness and since the allegations the investigators had received were heinous, his bail should be rejected.
Mobarak's counsel made the plea to the tribunal to extend his bail.
Mobarak, who is a local Awami League leader of Brahmanbaria, was produced before the tribunal. He was given bail by the tribunal on July 16. A war crimes case, filed against him in local court, has been transferred to the tribunal.
Meanwhile, defence counsel Tajul Islam submitted a contempt petition to the tribunal against the chief of the investigation agency, Abdul Hannan Khan, and investigation officer Nurul Islam, saying the investigators had quizzed war crimes suspect Mir Quashem Ali without informing the defence.
The tribunal did not fix a date for hearing on the petition.
War crimes investigators on Saturday interrogated former BNP lawmaker Quashem for six hours at a "safe house" in Dhanmondi in the capital.