There is an apparent suggestion that prosecutors are about to lodge complaint after completing their investigation against a UK national of Bangladeshi origin for his alleged crime against humanity. Prosecutors along with the Law Minister of Bangladesh have vowed to bring all accused of war crimes no matter where they live, to book. While talking to the Telegraph, they expressed their determination to try one of the accused, namely Chowdhury Mueen Uddin currently living in UK.
Laws regarding extradition, however are complex in nature and UK government have experience diffiluties in …

While militants and ultra-right wing terrorists around the world are connected to each other, liberal and secular proponents of society remain unaware of each other’s presence and work, observed speakers at the launch of the Pakistan chapter of the “International forum for secular Bangladesh […]” on Wednesday.
The movement, at present, has chapters in around 17 countries and Pakistan has become the 18th addition to the list. Each chapter works with the aim to unite likeminded secular and liberal people in creating a global pressure group to eradicate the menace …

The investigation officer who probed the war crimes charges against Delawar Hossain Sayedee yesterday gave an overview of 23 incidents of atrocity the Jamaat-e-Islami leader was allegedly involved in during the Liberation War.
They include mass murder, rape, arson, looting, abduction, torture and forced conversions of religion during the war.
Mohammad Helal Uddin, the 28th and last prosecution witness in the case against Sayedee, also presented as evidence many photographs and footage of the places where the atrocities were committed. He had recorded them during his investigation.
Places of mass murders, a building …

Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy premiered a conceptual play, “Dinguli Kemon Chhilo”, on the Liberation War. To depict the immensity of the war, the academy has chosen a form known as “environmental theatre” for the production.
The play premiered on April 17 at the vacant space in front of the National Art Gallery. Ashish Khandakar, known as an expert in the theatre form, has conceptualised and directed the play.
Environmental theatre places a production in an environment similar to the one in which the play is set. Khandakar only used the space to create …

KARACHI, April 18: Secularism is not against religion; it is the message of humanity.
This was the gist of the speeches delivered by eminent speakers at the launch of the Pakistan chapter of the Forum of Secular Bangladesh and Trial of War Criminals of 1971 at the Karachi Press Club on Wednesday.
Prior to the launch, a documentary Portraits of Jihad directed by distinguished Bangladeshi filmmaker Shahriar Kabir was screened. The subject of the film was the spread of religious fundamentalism in Bangladesh. It gave a detailed …

The officer investigating the war crimes charges against Jamaat-e-Islami leaderl Delwar Hossain Sayedee in his deposition on Thursday said that a number of records and documents dating back to 1971 had been destroyed.
Appearing before the International Crimes Tribunal-1, set up to deal with crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War, ASP Mohammad Helal Uddin said on the eighth day of his deposition that during his investigation he had found a number of relevant documents and records destroyed.
He said the records were destroyed during the regimes that followed the assassination …

Video footages of the massacre carried out by the Pakistani occupation army on the night past March 25, 1971 and atrocities committed by them during Bangladesh’s war of independence were played in the International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Tuesday.
The video footages, including three reports aired by the NBC and CBS televisions in 1971 and two documentaries made by ATN-Bangla on the history of the war of independence and atrocities, were recorded as evidence against the detained Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami nayeb-e-amir Delwar Hossain Sayedee.
During the sixth day’s recording of his deposition, the investigation …

Anomalies in page numbers continue to haunt the prosecution as it failed to have pictures of Bhagirathi Square exhibited as evidence against Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delwar Hossain Sayedee at the war crimes tribunal on Wednesday.
Executive council member of Jamaat is alleged to have been involved in the murder of one Bhagirathi Saha during the 1971 Liberation War, which is one of the 20 war crimes charges levelled against him.
The three-judge International Crimes Tribunal-1, set up on Mar 25, 2010, to deal with crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War, said …

The International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Tuesday deferred to May 2 its order on framing of charges against the detained former Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami amir Ghulam Azam.
The tribunal, also known as war crimes tribunal, set up for trial of the 1971 war crimes, deferred the order because the judges were yet to complete examination of the charges and the arguments made by the prosecution and the defence counsel.
Earlier on March 29, the tribunal had posted for April 17 its order after concluding the hearing on the indictment of the top war crimes …

Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin, director of Muslim spiritual care provision in the NHS, a trustee of the major British charity Muslim Aid and a central figure in setting up the Muslim Council of Britain, fiercely denies any involvement in a number of abductions and “disappearances” during Bangladesh’s independence struggle in the 1970s.
He says the claims are “politically-motivated” and false.
However, Mohammad Abdul Hannan Khan, the chief investigator for the country’s International Crimes Tribunal, said: “There is prima facie evidence of Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin being involved in a series of killings of intellectuals.
“We have made …

The first war crimes tribunal on Tuesday adjourned the deposition of investigation officer of Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delwar Hossain Sayedee’s case.
ASP Mohammad Helal Uddin, the 28th prosecution witness, landed on Sayedee’s native Pirojpur, where he is alleged to have committed war crimes, on the sixth day of his deposition.
Helal Uddin had dwelt mostly upon the general context of the Liberation War in 1971 and how it began. He gave a vivid and detailed description of the night of Mar 25 when the Pakistan Army descended upon the civilian population of Bangladesh.
The …

Celebrated British journalists Sir William Mark Tully and Simon Dring reminisced about their experiences covering Bangladesh’s War of Independence at a programme on Monday.
Several ministers and MPs, writers, educationists, secretaries and leading professionals were present at the programme that began at 7:45pm at Hotel Sonargaon.
Sir Mark Tully was BBC’s Indian affairs correspondent in 1971 and is still one of Britain’s favourite broadcasters. During the war, the news media controlled by the then Pakistani junta used to carry out coverage for the military and their affiliates. Mark Tully’s coverage of the …