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My brother was killed in Subhan's presence

Witness tells war crimes trial

Staff Correspondent
A prosecution witness yesterday testified how Pakistan army troops, accompanied by Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdus Subhan, shot dead his brother, brother's wife and a cousin at Kulnia village in Pabna on May 11, 1971 during the Liberation War.
The 13th witness, Abdul Matin, now 76, who saw the shootings from a nearby bush, testified at the three-member International Crimes Tribunal-2 chaired by Justice Obaidul Hassan.
"On May 11, 1971, the Pakistan occupation army came to our village in eight or nine vehicles around 10:00am or 11:00am. Moulana Subhan came with them in a white
car," the witness said, adding he saw all this as his house was located by the roadside.
Matin said he knew Subhan as a Jamaat leader, as the man had taken part in the Jamaat's election campaign at different times before the war.
On that fateful day, the army began to fire indiscriminately the moment they entered the village, making the inhabitants run for their lives.
"I, my brother Somujuddin Pramanik, his wife Rahatun Nesa and other people hid in different bamboo bushes. The Pak army shot my brother, his wife and our neighbour Hasina. My brother and Hasina died on the spot," the septuagenarian witness said.
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Rahatun's father, who is Matin's maternal unde, took his injured daughter to Pabna Sadar Hospital, where she died about 20 days later.
Matin said after that the Pakistani soldiers went to one Khoda Bakhsh's house in the village and killed a man named Wajuddin, who had taken shelter there.
The witness also said that Subhan took the Pakistani soldiers to Dogachi village. He learnt later that the army had shot dead eight or nine people in Dogachi, including Haripad, Benu and Chand Ali Pramanik.
Following the deposition, defence counsel
SM Shahjahan cross-examined Matin.
The proceedings were adjourned until today.
Subhan faces nine charges including genocide during the liberation war. He was produced at the tribunal yesterday.
Meanwhile, defence counsel Abdus Sobhan Tarafder completed cross-examining two prosecution witnesses Ambia Khatun and Anowara Begum, who testified against another war crimes accused, Syed Mohammad Qaisar.
Qaisar, a state minister in the HM Ershad regime, faces 16 charges including genocide committed in Habiganj and Brahmanbaria during the liberation war.