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I saw him order father's killing

Martyr Majat Ali's younger son echoes elder brother's testimony at war crimes trial of Qaisar

Staff Correspondent
In 1971 when Nawshad Ali was 11 years old, a man ordered the killing of his father and six of his father's colleagues. The memories of how the seven men were shot dead left a lasting impression on his mind but back then he was too young to identify the man.
11 was not until his elder brother told him the name-Syed Mohammad Qaisar, a man facing 16 charges, including genocide and murders, in BrahmanbariaandHabiganj in 1971.
Though he could not recall the date of the fateful event, the memories are still fresh to Nawshad, now 54, who witnessed the killings. As the 11th prosecution witness in Qaisar's case, he gave a vivid description of the killings before International Crimes Tribunal-2 yesterday.
Nawshad said the deceased men were thrown into the Khoai river, and they never found them.
His testimony was almost identical with that of his elder brother Mostafa Ali, who gave deposition as the ninth prosecution witness on April 28, saying Qaisar had directed the Pakistani army to shoot his father and the six others to death on May 29,1971.
Qaisar, a state minister of HM Ershad's regime, was the alleged founder of Qaisar Bahini but the 73-year-old pleaded not guilty. Nawshad, son of martyred Majat Ali of Dakhin Lenjapara in Shaistaganj of Habiganj, said his father had been a guard at Shaistaganj Food Codown in 1971, and his elder brother and he would regularly carry meals for his father there.
One day in 1971, when the two brothers went there, they found many people collecting food from the warehouse, he said.
After sometime, Nawshad said, three or four people arrived in the storehouse in a jeep and left within a few minutes. But sometime later, the Pakistani army and many other people arrived there chanting "Pakistan Zindabad", he said. "From my brother, I later learnt that one of the three men | who had come in a jeep] was accused Mohammad Qaisar."
Nawshad said that on return, Qaisar and his people dragged his father and the six others out of the food storage and threatened them and asked them not to leave the place.
A few days later, Nawshad said, he and his brother saw his father and six others were being taken to a nearby building, and later he learnt that the building was a rest house.
"After Zohr prayers, we saw my father and the six men were being taken to the Khoai river bank. Then my brother and I followed them, and from a sugarcane field, we witnessed the incident. ”
"From there, I saw my father and the six were lined up on the Khoai bank and Punjabi men [Pakistani army] shot dead my father and the six following a signal of Qaisar, and threw their bodies into the river. We are yet to get our father's body," said an emotion-choked Nawshad.
Nawshad learnt from his mother that his father and the six men were killed, as they supported independence, he said.
After his testimony, Qaisar's lawyer SM Shahjahan completed his brief cross-examination before the three-member tribunal led by Justice Obaidul Hassan adjourned the proceeding until May 11.
The court on Sunday completed recording the testimony and cross-examination of the 10th prosecution witness, who was a war child, behind closed doors.