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Torture, Abduction in 1971

Witness testifies against Qaisar

Staff Correspondent
A woman yesterday testified that Syed Mohammad Qaisar and his cohorts had tortured her husband and father-in-law, taken away her husband and burned their house in Brahmanbaria during the Liberation War.
Nishamon, wife of late Golam Rouf of Haripur village under Nasirnagar upazila, told the International Crimes Tribunal-2 that her husband was released in exchange of ransom, but her father-in-law died after two weeks due to the torture.
"My mother-in-law and I pleaded for the lives of my husband and father-in-law to Qaisar and his men, but Qaisar shoved me away," added Nishamon, 15th prosecution witness in the case against Qaisar.
Her brother-in-law Colam Noor, also 13th prosecution witness in the case, gave almost a similar description citing Nishamon, his brother, mother and several others as he was in India at that time.
Qaisar, a state minister of the HM Ershad regime, faces 16 charges includ-ing genocide committed in Brahmanbaria and Habiganj during the war. The 73-year-old accused, however, pleaded not guilty before the court.
During her 70-minute testimony, Nishamon said Qaisar and the members of his "Qaisar Bahini” had come to their Haripur house around 11:00am on the 8th of Bangla month Asar [June 23, 1971] and Qaisar directed his accomplices to pick up her husband.
"We entered the house and locked it. My husband tried to escape, but Qaisar Saheb and his men detained him," said the 71 -year-old witness.
Nishamon said the attackers had asked for the whereabouts of her brother-in-law Noor, who was a freedom fighter, and started torturing her husband, as he could not give the information.
Qaisar was acquainted to her and local Tajul, who was a Razakar, helped him and his force find their house, said Nishamon, adding that Qaisar and his men had also tortured her father-in-law when he tried to save his son and could not give the whereabouts of Noor.
Nishamon, who was pregnant at that time, said the attackers had set fire to their house and cowshed, burning eight cows alive.
Qaisar and his men had also taken away her husband, said the witness, adding that when she informed the matter to her father, he went to Qaisar but failed to release him.
Her father and an uncle-in-law had again gone to Qaisar the next day and requested to release her husband, but the accused sought Tk 10,000 in ransom, Nishamon said. Later they had given Tk 8,000 to Qaisar and got her husband released, she added.
"After his return, 1 had seen torture marks on my husband's body," said Nishamon, adding that her father-in-law died after 16 days due to the torture.
"What was our fault for which Qaisar Miah tortured us? 1 want justice," said the witness as she completed her testimony and identified the accused at the courtroom.
After her testimony, defence lawyer SM Shahjahan cross-examined her.
During her 34-minute cross-examination, Shahjahan mainly asked questions about the location and distance between different places and suggested that the witness had given 'false testimony’, which she denied.
The three-member tribunal led by Justice Obaidul Hassan with members Justice Md Mozibur Rahman Miah and Justice Md Shahinur Islam adjourned the proceedings until Sunday.
The tribunal has meanwhile also completed recording cross-examination of Korban Ali, sixth prosecution witness in the case against Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdus Subhan.