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Qaisar's aides killed father

Freedom fighter's son testifies at war crimes tribunal

Staff Correspondent
The son of a martyred freedom fighter yesterday testified that he saw the cohorts of war crimes accused Syed Mohammad Qaisar kill his father and three other freedom fighters in the district following a "signal" from Qaisar in 1971.
Renu Miah, son of Siraj Miah of Mouzpur village under Madhabpur upazila, Habiganj, told the International Crimes Tribunal-2 that Qaisar and his accomplices had also tortured his father before death and the accused rejected their earnest request to release him.
On Tuesday, Majeda Khatun, daughter of Akkas Ali, one of the four victims from
Mouzpur, gave a testimony almost identical to Renu's. She said she saw the Pakistani army kill her father and three other freedom fighters following Qaisar's signal.
Qaisar, a former state minister of HM Ershad's regime, faces 16 charges over crimes, including genocide, in Habiganj and Brahmanbaria during the war. The accused, now on bail, however, denies the allegations.
Renu, the 27th prosecution witness in Qaisar's case, said his father and the three of his fellow freedom fighters slept at their house on the night of the 11th of Bangla month Ashwin.
The next morning, they saw many people
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in khakis and brown dress in the village and around 20/25 brown-clad people entered their home and dragged his Either and the three out.
Earlier, a prosecution witness testified that Qaisar had formed the "Qaisar Bahini", an auxiliary force made up of collaborators, which wore brown uniform.
"I could identify Alauddin and Rawshan, who had also entered our house with the 20/25 men," said Renu, adding that when his father and the three others were taken to Jagadishpurcamp, he, his mother and Majeda followed them.
Majeda, however, said her father and three freedom fighters were sleeping at Siraj's house on the night of the 12th of Ashwin, and they were taken to Jagadishpur camp the next day.
Renu said at Jagadishpur camp, brown-clad people and a man in white dress tortured the four and when he inquired about the identity of the white-clad man, locals said it was Qaisar.
"They [locals] also told me to go to Qaisar to get my father released. Then 1 went to him [Qaisar] and requested him to release my father and the other detainees," he continued.
"But he did not respond to our request; rather a man in khaki started beating us following his [Qaisar's] signal."
Then the four freedom fighters were taken to the Sonai River and queued up on the bridge, said Renu. "A brown-clad man gunned them down them following the signal of white-clad Qaisar Shaheb."
"As they fell on the ground, several brown-clad men kicked their bodies into the river," he said, adding that later they searched for the bodies in vain and left for India.
After his testimony, Qaisar's lawyer Abdus Sobhan Tarafder completed cross-examining Renu.
Later, Nurul Islam, personal assistant of Abdul Hannan Khan, coordinator of the war crimes investigation agency, testified as the first seizure list witness in the case.
The three-member tribunal led by Justice Obaidul Hassan adjourned the proceeding till today.