Photo: Amdadul Huq / DriknewsMonir Ahammed, Chandpur
Recently one of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)’s top leaders urged the government to stop the activities of International Crimes Tribunal (ICT). The BNP has made it clear that it stands against the prosecution of crimes against humanity. We cannot betray the ideals and values of our Liberation War. The crimes that were committed in 1971 must be dealt with very sincerely according to the law and this opportunity must not be lost. We are grateful to …

Sun, Jan 15th, 2012 9:44 pm BdST

Liton Haider
bdnews24.com Chief Crime Correspondent
Dhaka, Jan 15 (bdnews24.com) – Authorities of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) hospital are supplying food to former Jamaat-e-Islami chief Ghulam Azam, arrested for charges of crimes against humanity, as per his choice.
The hospital authorities said the 89-year-old war crimes suspect is being supplied food of his choice from the hospital itself, as there is no permission to supply food from outside, Medicine Department nutritionist Tripty Chowdhury told bdnews24.com.
Ghulam …

Wed, Jan 11th, 2012 11:52 pm BdST
Dhaka, Jan 11 (bdnews24.com) – The city’s Awami League units brought out parades across the city at the news of former Jamaat-e-Islami chief Ghulam Azam’s arrest.
On Wednesday afternoon, as the International Crimes Tribunal sent the 90-year old to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University under custody, Awami League activists took to the streets in every ward of the city.
Activists also gathered in front of the Awami League headquarters at Bangabandhu Avenue and burned Azam’s effigy.
Later, at …

Wed, Jan 11th, 2012 11:30 pm BdST
Dhaka, Jan 11 (bdnews24.com) – The home ministry has alerted law enforcement agencies regarding any kind of violence in the aftermath of former Jamaat chief Ghulam Azam’s imprisonment.
“Law enforcement agencies have been alerted across the country on receiving information from detectives. Whoever tries to react violently will be treated with strict hands,” home minister Shahara Khatun told reporters on Wednesday.
Azam was admitted to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University hospital under custody, hours after the International …

Wed, Jan 11th, 2012 11:28 pm BdST

Dhaka, Jan 11 (bdnews24.com) – The International Crimes Tribunal’s order to send Jamaat-e-Islami linchpin Ghulam Azam to jail for alleged involvement in war crimes during the 1971 Liberation War is not proper, defence counsel Abdur Razzaq has said.
“A man is innocent like 10 others, until proven guilty,” he told reporters after the tribunal’s order on Wednesday.
While the tribunal refused Azam’s bail petition while delivering the verdict, Razzaq said the defence would put in another bail appeal …

DHAKA: A Bangladeshi tribunal sent on Wednesday Golam Azam, former chief of Jamaat-e-Islami party, to jail to await trial on charges of war crimes, his attorneys and court officials said.
The 90-year-old leader is facing trial for helping the Pakistani army during Bangladesh’s 1971 war of independence, when, according to government records, more than three million people were killed and thousands of women raped in what was then East Pakistan.
Jamaat, Bangladesh’s biggest Islamic political party, opposed Bangladesh’s independence from Pakistan and helped the …

DHAKA, Sector Commanders Forum (SCF) Chairman and Planning Minister AK Khandker Bir Uttom today stated every war crimes suspect is going to be introduced to justice.
“The tests of war crooks, who committed crimes against humanity throughout the War of Liberation in 1971, have previously began and each war criminal is going to be attempted,” he stated.
The SCF chairman stated the continuing trial process should never be a farce rather it might be of worldwide standards.
AK Khandaker, who had been also deputy commander-in-chief throughout the Liberation …

Fri, Dec 16th, 2011 11:49 pm BdST
Mintu Chowdhury
bdnews24.com Correspondent
Chittagong, Dec 16 (bdnews24.com) — The last wish of Prafulla Chandra Singha, son of martyred philanthropist Nutan Chandra Singha, is to see the trial of his father’s murderers.
“I want to die seeing my father’s killers are put on trial,” he tells bdnews24.com in an interview.
The war crimes trial will have to complete in this tenure of the Sheikh Hasina government. Otherwise, the prime minister, along with us, will be in danger,” 72-year-old Prafulla Singha …

BBC News
On 13 June 1971, an article in the UK’s Sunday Times exposed the brutality of Pakistan’s suppression of the Bangladeshi uprising. It forced the reporter’s family into hiding and changed history.
Abdul Bari had run out of luck. Like thousands of other people in East Bengal, he had made the mistake – the fatal mistake – of running within sight of a Pakistani patrol. He was 24 years old, a slight man surrounded by soldiers. He was trembling because he was about to …

Ashutosh Sarkar
The special prosecution team dealing with war crimes related cases will today submit formal charges against Jamaat ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami, its Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed and assistant secretaries general Muhammad Kamaruzzaman and Abdul Quader Molla.
The four are now detained in connection with crimes against humanity during the Liberation War.
The team is also ready to ask the International Crimes Tribunal for arrest warrant against former Jamaat-e-Islami ameer Ghulam Azam.
Prosecution sources claim that Ghulam Azam and some Jamaat-e-Islami leaders had …

Jamaatis helped Pakistanis kill and rape Bengalis

This Friday, December 16, Bangladesh will celebrate the 40th anniversary of its victory in the 1971 Liberation War. The fall of Dacca, as Dhaka was then known, marked the end of Pakistani tyranny and the beginning of a new era for the Bengali nation. It also marked, with Lieutenant-General Amir Abdullah Khan Niazi, the commander of Pakistan’s rapacious, murderous Army which killed three million Bengalis in less than a year between March 26 and December …

First testimony in Bangladesh war crimes trial

The first test of a thought collaborator from Bangladesh’s 1971 war of self-reliance observed on Friday how the energized, now a person politician, led a trend of looting and arson by pro-Pakistan militia.
Delawar Hossain Sayedee, a top determine in the weight Jamaat-e-Islami celebration, took in from the connect as the first experience in his test described how Sayedee recognized houses and suppliers of practitioners of the freedom activity to Pakistani military authorities.
Mahbubul Islam Howlader, 60, informed the the …