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Arrest war crimes suspect Syed Hasan

Prosecution urges International Crimes Tribunal-1

Staff Correspondent
The prosecution yesterday sought an arrest warrant for war crimes suspect Syed Mohammad Hasan, while an investigation is going on over his alleged involvement in several war-time crimes committed in Tarail upazila of Kishoreganj in 1971.
Prosecutor Abul Kalam submitted a petition to International Crimes Tribunal-1 through its Registrar Office seeking the arrest of Hasan, the alleged commander of Tarail Razakar Bahini, an auxiliary force of the Pakistani army.
The prosecutor told The Daily Star that
the investigation against Hasan started on June 6, 2013, and the investigator had already found evidence about his "involvement" in murders, mass murders, torture, and several other crimes.
Through his men, Hasan is trying to influence the inquiry, alleged Kalam. "So, we prayed for his arrest for a proper investigation."
Hari Debnath, the investigation officer, said Hasan was originally from Machihata village (Pir Bari) in Brahmanbaria sadar upazila but he along with his family had been living in Tarail for many years before the Liberation War, as his father worked there.
Hasan's father Syed Musleh Uddin was the vice president of Pakistan Democratic Party (PDP) for East Pakistan and chairman of Peace Committee in then Kishoreganj sub-division in 1971.
Both PDP and Peace Committee worked against Bangladesh's liberation.
The investigator said he had found some evidence supporting the allegations of a mass killing, murders, arson, looting and confinement.
He said currently Hasan was not involved with any political party but once he was involved with Nezam-e-Islami, another anti-liberation organisation, which was banned immediately after the war but restarted operation in Ziaur Rahman's regime.
Meanwhile, the International Crimes
Tribunal-2 yesterday fixed today for hearing the opening statement from the prosecution in the case against Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdus Subhan.
The prosecution was supposed to place their opening statement on March 27 but the tribunal-1 that day transferred the case to the tribunal-2 on its own motion.
Subhan, then vice-president of Pabna district Peace Committee, an anti-liberation organisation, is facing nine charges of genocide and crimes against humanity committed in Pabna in 1971.
The tribunal also completed recording the cross-examination of Lutfar Rahman Faruk, 20th prosecution witness against another Jamaat leader Mir Quasem Ali.
The court adjourned the proceeding until April 6.
Quasem is facing 14 charges of crimes against humanity committed in Chittagong during the nine-month war.