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Bnp Leader Khokon's Trial

2 witnesses testify on wartime killings

Staff Correspondent
Two witnesses in the war crimes case against Zahid Hossain Khokon yesterday testified how their fathers were killed during the Liberation War at Meherdia village in Faridpur.
One of the witnesses, Abdul Aziz Ma tubbar, now 63, saw war crimes accused BNP leader and fugitive Khokon shoot his father Asir Liddin Matubbardeadon May 31,1971.
Idris Sardar, 56, the other witness, said he had seen Khokon dragging out his father Sofiz Uddin Sardar to a corner of their house the same day. He had later heard the sound of gunshots, Idris added.
"After they left the place, I went there and found my fatherdead. Onebullethithim in the chest and another in his ankle," said Idris.
Idris and Aziz, the sixth and seventh prosecution witnesses respectively, were giving deposition at the International Crimes Tribunal-1.
Aziz told the tribunal he was working at a jute field on May 31 when he noticed Razakar commander Khokon and his associates along with Pakistani army on the east side of their village.
"1 was running to escape when Khokon shot me. The bullet passed touching my right ear and I fell on the ground, "Aziz said.
The impact of the bullet was so strong that Aziz lost one eye and became hearing impaired for life.
He said he had managed to hide in a nearby bush.
"My father took shelter in a mosque. Khokon dragged him out from the mosque and shot him dead," said the witness, adding, he had seen the incident from the bush.
On the same day Khokon and his associates allegedly killed Idris' father.
Idris said he and his father were talking on
the premises of their house. "Suddenly I heard the sound of shooting coming from the mosque," said Aziz who saw Khokon leading others to their house.
Asking his father to hide, Aziz also hid in a bush on the north of their house.
"They [ Khokon and his associates] set fire to our house," he said, adding, "My father could not flee and they caught him.
"I saw Khokon drag my father to the northeast side of our house. Khokon was holding a rifle in his hand," he said.
"I heard the sound of two shots. One bullet hit in his chest and another in the ankle," said Aziz who later found his father dead.
Then they had burned down several other houses in the village and headed to the nearby locality, said the witness.
Defence counsel Abuds Shukur Khan cross-examined the witnesses before the proceeding was adjourned until today.
ICT-2
The International Crimes Tribunal-2 yesterday deferred to December 5 the charge-framing hearing in the case against war crimes accused Syed Mohammad Qaisar as his defence were yet to get formal charges and other prosecution documents.
Yesterday was fixed for charge framing hearing, but defence counsel Abdus Sobhan Tarafder said they had yet to receive the prosecution documents. Prosecutor Rana Dasgupta, however, said they had submitted the documents to the tribunal's registrar's office on Tuesday.
The tribunal then re-fixed the date.
Earlier on November 14, the tribunal accepted the charges brought against Qaisar, a former state minister in military dictator HM Ershad's cabinet.
The prosecution had earlier pressed 18 charges against Qaisar, an alleged Razakar