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War Crimes Trial

Second witness defends Alim

Staff Correspondent
A defence witness yesterday testified that he had seen Abdul Alim at a home in his village where Alim had taken shelter for security reasons during the Liberation War.
Mozaffar Hossain, the second defence witness in the war crimes case against Alim, also said the Pakistan army and local Biharis had killed many people in their neighbouring village in Joypurhat.
During his 36-minute testimony before International Crimes Tribunal-2, Mozaffar, of Hanail Bambu village in Joypurhat, said he was a student of class IX in 1971.
One day in the last part of April 1971, the Pakistani army and Biharis had come to their village, the witness said, adding that he was compelled to hide himself inside the village mosque.
From the mosque, he witnessed the Pakistani soldiers and Biharis going to his neighbouringvillage.
Around 3:30pm on that day, he heard gunshot sounds coming from his neighbouring Karai Kadipur village.
Two or three days later, he heard from the people of Kadipur village that the Pakistani army and Biharis had killed a number of villagers and burnt down their houses.
On June 13, Bhagirath Chandra Barman, the 24th prosecution witness, testified that Alim, a former BNP lawmaker, "ordered" the killingof350-370 Hindus in Kadi pur during the Liberation War.
Mozaffar, however, didn't mention Alim's name while giving description about the mass killing.
He also said he went to the house of Musa Moulana in their village either in the last part of July or in the first part of August 1971 and saw Alim there.
After his testimony, Prosecutor Rana Dasgupta completed his cross-examination and claimed that Mozaffar had given "false testimony" to save Alim from the war crimes charges.
Mozaffar rejected the prosecutor's claim saying, "It is not true."
Meanwhile, the two-member tribunal of Justice Md Mozibur Rahman Miah and Justice Md Shahinur Islam allowed Alim's son Sazzad Alim to testify as the third defence witness in the case.
The court adjourned the case proceedings until today.
NIZAMI'S CASE
Defence counsel in the war
crimes case against Motiur Rahman Nizami yesterday completed cross-examining Johurul Haque, the 18th prosecution witness in the case.
Defence counsel Mizanul Islam asked the witness whether he had met the investigation officer before May 17, 2013. He replied in the negative.
Johurul in his deposition before Tribunal-1 yesterday said he had given his statement before the investigation officer on May 17.
The defence asked Johurul whether a document of a list of Razakar, Al-Badr and Al-Shams that bore his signature was served to the investigation agency on December 27, 2010. He replied in the affirmative.
Johurul also said he did not prepare the document and handed it over to the
agency without any scrutiny.
In reply to another question, the witness said he never went abroad in 1971.
He had been aware of the activities of antiliberation forces even before he was informed about a meeting that Nizami had with the locals at Rupshi Govt Primary School on formation of a peace committee in Pabna, Johurul said.
In his deposition on August 29, he said around 400 people of Rupshi Bousgari in Pabna were killed by the Pakistani occupation army following the direction of Nizami in 1971.
Johurul said he had heard about it from locals after the massacre on May 14,1971.
The proceedings of the case were adjourned until noon today.