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Azharul Islam raped pregnant woman

Witness tells war crimes trial

Staff Correspondent
A prosecution witness yesterday testified that war crimes accused Jamaat-e-lslami leader ATM Azharul Islam and the Pakistani army tortured and raped a pregnant woman for about 19 days at Rangpur Town Hall during the Liberation War.
"As a result, she lost her six-month-old foetus in womb,” Mujibor Rahman Master, in his 70s, told International Crimes Tribunal-1 as the eighth witness, who heard the incident from the victim.
Mujibor, about 33 in 1971, said the occupation army detained eminent persons of Rangpur at Rangpur Cantonment between March 24 and March 27,1971, and tortured them.
"On April 3, 1971, about 11 persons
including advocate Jorrej Mia were shot dead at Dokhiganj crematory of Mahiganj, Rangpur. Though Dr Montu was shot, he survived miraculously," he said, adding that he had heard the incident from Dr Montu, who implicated Azharul in the killing of the 11.
Azharul, former president of Rangpur district unit Islami Chhatra Sangha, the then student wing of Jamaat, faces six charges of murder, genocide and crimes against humanity in 1971.
After the war, Mujibor met Rangpur's Language Movement hero Prof Nurul Islam, who along with locals, told him that the Pakistani army and Azharul on April 30, 1971 picked up Rangpur Carmichael College teacher Kalachand Babu, his wife, Sunil Chandra Baran, China Ranjan Roy, and Ram Krishna Adhikary and shot them dead at Damdama Bridge near RangpurTown.
The witness said a memorial plaque was set up near Damdama Bridge in their memory.
Mujibor also said on December 22, 1971, he found blood-stained saris, blouses, petticoats, and shattered bangles at Rangpur Town Hall. "I saw many bodies of women floating on an Indira (large well)."
He learned from the locals that the women were tortured, raped at Town Hall, and Azharul was involved in it.
The witness also said the Peace Committee members occupied Jogodish Babu's house at Badarganj on April 8,1971 and held meeting there with Azharul being present often.
Mujiboralso corroborated the killing of more than 1,200 people at Jharuar Beel on April 17 and 15 people at Moksedpur on April 16 in 1971, and said Azharul was involved in those killings.
The witness said Azharul had been known to him since the 1970 election when the war crimes accused campaigned for Jamaat in Rangpur. Following the testimony, the defence cross-examined him. The proceeding was adjourned till today.