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War Crimes in Moulvibazar

Death penalty for 2, jail until death for 3

Staff Correspondent
The International Crimes Tribunal-1 yesterday found five Moulvibazar men guilty of committing genocide and crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971.
The tribunal handed down death penalty to two and jail until death to three others. All of them worked as the collaborators of the Pakistan army and committed the crimes in Rajnagar upazila 47 years ago.
"The accused persons knowingly and agreeing with the common purpose of the squad remained physically and actively engaged with it till significant phase of attacks which eventually ended in killing of detained pro-liberation civilians,” the court said.
Of the convicts, UjerAhmed Chowdhury, 63, and Nesar Ali, 75, were given death
penalties, while Yunus Ahmed, 71, Samsul Hossain Tarafder, 65, and Mobarak Mia, 66, were awarded imprisonment until death.
Yunus and Ujer are in jail and the rest are on the run. Samsul was involved with Al-Badr force, while the rest with Razakar force, the prosecution said.
Al-Badr and Razakar were two auxiliary forces ofthe Pakistan army in 1971.
The three-member tribunal, led by Justice Md Shahinur Islam, has directed the secretary to the Public Security Division of the Ministry of Home Affairs and the inspector general of police to take necessary steps to arrest the fugitives.
The other two members of the special tribunal are Justice Amir Hossain and Judge Md Abu Ahmed Jamadar. Justice Md Shahinur Islam found the accused guilty on charges of committing genocide and crimes against humanity and handed down the death penalty to two of them and jail until death to three others.
Of the convicts, Ujer Ahmed Chowdhury, 63, and Nesar Ali, 75, were given death penalties, while Yunus Ahmed, 71, Samsul Hossain Tarafder, 65, and Mobarak Mia, 66, were awarded imprisonment until death.
The Pakistan army and their local collaborators killed some 30 lakh people. More than 2 lakh women were raped and around 1 crore people forced to take refuge in neighbouring India.
After the country's independence, there was a growing demand for bringing to book the perpetrators of the crimes committed during the ninemonth war, and trial of the collaborators of the Pakistan army started.
But the trial proceedings stopped after a political changeover following the assassination of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in August 1975. Subsequently, some identified war criminals were inducted into the cabinet.
After four decades, the Awami League-led government, as per its
electoral pledge, formed war crimes tribunal in March 2010 and two tribunals have so far delivered 30 verdicts.
While reading out the historical background and context of the trial, the tribunal yesterday said the nation, particularly the new generation, must know the backdrop of horrific crimes committed in 1971 by the Pakistan army and their local collaborators.
"We consider it expedient to note that the verdict of a court of law is not only meant to render its decision on the arraignment brought," the tribunal said.
"It must also reflect the truth, behind the commission of horrific criminal acts which shall create youthquake to go ahead with the spirit ofthewarofliberation," itadded.
The tribunal said the trial of monstrous and barbaric crimes like genocide even after more than four decades "not only ensures lawful space of coming out from the culture of impunity, but also creates an sphere of knowing the truth - the truth that horrific 'genocide' was committed by the Pakistan occupation army and their notorious local collaborators in the territory of Bangladesh in 1971, during the nine-month war of liberation.”