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Asif Mahmud, a key leader of Students Against Discrimination, yesterday told the International Crimes Tribunal-1 that the then prime minister and home minister had ordered the killings of him and other coordinators when they were in DB custody last year.

“We were repeatedly told that we had been picked up on the direct orders of prime minister Sheikh Hasina and home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal. We were warned that if we refused to call off the movement, we would be killed on their instructions. They even said we were still alive only because of their mercy,” he said while testifying as a prosecution witness.

Then DB chief Harun-Or-Rashid and Ramna

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