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Subhan, his aides killed 3 in Pabna

Freedom fighter testifies, says Jamaat men operated torture cell at Ishwardi in 1971

Staff Correspondent
A prosecution witness yesterday testified that he had seen Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdus Subhan and his cohorts stab three people to death in Ishwardi during the Liberation War.
Fazlur Rahman Fantu, a freedom fighter from Ishwardi in Pabna, said Jamaat men operated a torture cell in Ishwardi and Subhan used to visit the cell.
The lists of pro-liberation people were prepared at the cell and decisions were also taken there before killing them, he added.
Earlier, ATM Shahiduzzaman Nasim and
Tahurul Alam Mollah, who were relatives of the victims, testified before the International Crimes Tribunal-2.
In their testimony, Nasim and Mollah said they had seen Subhan and his cohorts stab their relatives to death in Ishwardi on April 17and 18,1971.
Subhan, a nayeb-e-ameer of Jamaat, faces nine charges, including genocide and murders committed in Pabna during the war. He, however, pleaded not guilty before the court.
During his one hour and 37-minute testimony, Fazlur said Subhan was the president of Pabna Jamaat. He later became the secretary and vice-president of Pabna Peace Committee, an anti-liberation force, in 1971.
The 63-year-old witness, also an acting editor of a local newspaper, said the Pakistani army captured the entire Ishwardi on April 11, 1971 and set up several camps there.
As the Pakistani army reached Ishwardi, local leaders and activists of Jamaat and other anti-liberation parties and Biharies carried out atrocities in the locality and killed around 200 people with the help of the occupation army, he said.
Shocked by the brutality, around 200 people took shelter in Ishwardi Kendriya Jame Masjid, Fazlur said.
They also heard that local antiliberation people, under the leadership of Jamaat leader Khoda Baks, had been
killing pro-liberation people, who took shelter in the mosque, he added.
"Beside the mosque, there was a Jamaat camp which was used as torture cell and on several occasions, I have seen Subhan Moulana visiting the cell from Pabna town," the witness said.
"Lists of pro-liberation people, who would be killed, were prepared at the cell," he said.
Fazlur also said on the evening of April 16, 1971 his friend Tahurul Alam requested him to give him company while going to Ishwardi Kendriya Jame Masjid for rescuing his father Moazzem Hossain.
On the following day, Fazlur and Tahurul went to Tahurul's paternal aunt's house, which was near the Jame Masjid.
But Tahurul's aunt asked them to leave the place immediately as the area
became highly risky, said the witness.
So they hid themselves inside a jungle near the mosque and after sometime, they saw Subhan, along with three to four men, came to the mosque and Khoda Baks and others received him.
Subhan and others later entered the mosque to offer Asr prayers, said Fazlur, adding that after the prayer, Subhan and several other Jamaat men dragged Tahurul's father Moazzem Hossain out of the mosque and took him to a nearby coal depot.
"At the coal depot, we saw a Jamaat man gave Subhan a sword. When Moulana Subhan hit Moazzem with the sword, he fell down (on the ground) uttering'AllahuAkbar'.
"Then the accomplices of Subhan stabbed him indiscriminately," said the emotion-chocked witness.
Tahurul attempted to scream but he
[Fazlur| prevented him from doing so and they left the place, Fazlur went on.
On the following day (April 18,1971), Fazlur and Tahurul again went to Ishwardi to bring back Moazzem's body. From a hidden place there, they saw Khoda Baks and others standing in front of the torture cell.
Later Subhan reached there and after talks with the Jamaat men, Subhan went near the coal depot.
Some Jamaat men then went inside the mosque and dragged Matleb Ahmed Khan and his son, Nazmul Haque Khan, out of the mosque and took them to the coal depot.
"Jamaat man Haresuddin, who later joined the Razakar force, gave his sword to Moulana Subhan and he hit Matleb with the sword and blood started to spatter," Fazlur said.
Then Subhan's accomplices killed
Matleb and Nazmul after stabbing them indiscriminately.
After some days, they left the country for India to get training for the war, said Fazlur. "I appeal to the tribunal to award exemplary punishment to the antiliberation people, who were responsible for the killing of 30 lakh people and for whom, our parents had to endure torture during the Liberation War," he said.
Fazlur also identified Subhan at the dock ofthe tribunal.
Defence counsel Mizanul Islam asked the witness only three questions before 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 today.
Fazlur will face further cross-examination today.