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Jabbar's war trial ends

Verdict any day

Staff Correspondent
A war crimes tribunal yesterday concluded the trial proceedings of fugitive accused Abdul Jabbar and kept the case waiting for verdict delivery.
"The hearing has been
concluded and the judgment has been kept as CAV," said Justice M Enayetur Rahim, chairman of the three-member International Crimes Tribunal-1.
CAV is Curia Advisari Vuk, a Latin legal term that means the verdict could be delivered anytime.
Earlier, prosecutor Zahid Imam sought capital punishment for the former Jatiya Party lawmaker for his alleged involvement in the war crimes committed in Pirojpur during the 1971 Liberation War. On the other hand, state-appointed defence counsel Mohammad Abul Hasan prayed to the tribunal to exonerate Jabbar of all the charges.
The alleged chairman of Mathbaria Thana unit of Peace Committee, an auxiliary force to the Pakistani occupation army, is facing five charges of crimes against humanity and genocide committed in May and October of 1971.
The charges include killing 36, forcefully converting 200 Hindus to Islam, looting and torching 500 houses in several villages of the district.
"Considering the gravity of his crimes and his propensity for committing those, we want his capital punishment," Zahid told the court, adding that, many civilians of Mathbaria were killed by Razakars on Jabbar's direction.
"The accused himself shot many people dead and instigated Razakars to kill another 22 of Angulkata village in 1971", he added.
The prosecutor said no when the tribunal chairman asked him whether any “mitigating circumstance" would be applicable to Jabbar.
Meanwhile, the defence lawyer during yesterday's hearing raised a question over the weapon the war crimes accused had allegedly used to shot one Shokhanath Khorati dead.
One of the witnesses said Jabbar used a pistol but another said it was
a rifle, argued Mohammad Abul Hasan.
Over this "contradiction", Zahid argued that the incident took place 42 years ago and therefore the defence would not get any benefit from such “discrepancy" between the two statements.
Later, Justice Jahangir Hossain, a member of the tribunal, asked the prosecution to clarify why all the allegations of crimes brought against Jabbar were committed either in May or October, even though the war started in March and ended in December of 1971.
In reply, the prosecution said it was not possible for them to find out what Jabbar was doing during the other months of the war. The answer apparently did not satisfy the tribunal.
A total of 24 witnesses have testified against the war crimes accused while none was brought in favour of him by the defence.
SUBHAN TRIAL
Meanwhile, the International Crimes Tribunal-2 yesterday fixed today for hearing prosecution's rebuttal against defence counsels' arguments in the war crimes case against Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdus Subhan.
Earlier, the three-member tribunal led by Justice Obaidul Hassan had fixed yesterday for the hearing. The new date was set after Prosecutor Zead Al Malum sought time, citing the illness of another prosecutor, who will place the rebuttal.
Subhan, a nayeb-e-ameer of Jamaat, faces nine charges of war crimes, including genocide committed in Pabna during the Liberation War in 1971. Subhan, however, has pleaded not guilty.