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in abducting, torturing and killing nine non-combatant freedom fighters.

According to the charges, Sattar along with the Pakistani army and Razakars attacked Talaimari village under Boalia Police Station and detained freedom fighters from their homes.

They were taken to the army camp at the hall and tortured. The nine were killed on November 4, 1971, it added.

SCOPE FOR EXTENSIVE PROBE

The tribunal said Pakistan occupation army did not just station at Shamsuzzoha Hall in 1971, they transformed it into a “concentration camp”, and had recurrently killed countless civilians after bringing them there.

“Targeting civilians would not have been possible without active assistance, contribution and collaboration of Bangalee traitors belonging to Razakar Bahini and pro-Pakistan political parties,” it said.

The tribunal said they got a portrayal of the army camp set up at the hall from an article titled, “Honouring a Rare Sacrifice”, published in The Daily Star on March 31, 2011.

“Around mid-April, a huge force of the Pakistani army entered the city. Most of the campus residents left the area as the Pakistani army established their base at the university halls. The army turned Shaheed Shamsuzzoha Hall into a ‘concentration camp’ and ‘repression centre’. After torturing them, the barbarians killed the students, the intellectuals and able-bodied males at the mass graveyard behind Zoha Hall,” the verdict mentioned, citing the report of the English daily.

“We fail to comprehend why the investigation agency did not care to concentrate on other countless events, which resulted in killing of thousands of civilians, after keeping them confined to the army camp…,” it added.

The tribunal said more extensive investigation can help comprehend what extent of barbaric atrocities were carried out at the army camp at Zoha Hall during the Liberation War.