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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 …

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Two freedom-fighters testified against detained Jamaat nayeb-e-amir Delwar Hossain Sayedee on Thursday as the International Crimes Tribunal began recording depositions of prosecution witnesses.
Popularly known as war crimes tribunal, the ICT was instituted to try suspects of war crimes committed during the country’s War of Independence.
The tribunal introduced, for the first time in Bangladesh, computer transcription of witnesses’ testimonies.
Under the system, the witnesses testimony transcribed onto the computer screen is visible, almost instantly, to the three judges of the tribunal, the prosecution as well …

Last Updated: Wednesday, December 07, 2011, 17:12
Dhaka: The first prosecution witness of Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal on Wednesday testified against a top suspect of 1971 war crimes who was indicted two months ago on 20 charges of “crimes against humanity” during the Liberation War.
Court officials said a 1971 freedom fighters’ commander Mahbubul Alam Hawladar appeared as the first witness since the Tribunal was constituted in March last year to try the Bengali-speaking perpetrators of 1971 war crimes.
He testified against fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delwar Hossain Sayeedi, who is the first …

05 Dec 2011   01:01:35 PM   Monday BdST
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DHAKA: The International Crimes Tribunal Monday deferred until December 11 the submission of the formal charges against four top Jamaat-e-Islami leaders for their alleged involvement in ‘crimes against humanity’ committed during the liberation war in 1971.
The three-member tribunal headed by Justice Nizamul Huq fixed the date in response to Chief Prosecutor Gulam Arif Tipu’s plea for more time in this regard.
Jamaat Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami, Secretary-General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid and assistant …

Sun, 04/12/2011 – 12:25am | by priyodesk
The main opposition BNP finally threw down the gauntlet before the government yesterday. It sent shock waves across the country by making its position on the trial of war criminals explicit after weeks of what was seen as a skirting around the bush. It demanded that all proceedings of the International Crimes Tribunal be immediately stopped.

“The government is trying to tarnish the image of the opposition leaders through the trial process of the Tribunals” BNP standing committee member …

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Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delawar Hossain Sayedee’s counsels on Sunday termed as false the allegations of war crimes leveled against Sayedee.
Tajul Islam, a counsel for Sayedee, made the allegations at a press briefing at Supreme Court Bar Association premises.
The prosecution and the investigators of International Crimes Tribunal have collected statements of some selective Awami League leaders and workers from Pirojpur against Sayedee, Tajul alleged.
To back up their claim, Tajul said they had come to learn about it while visiting some areas of Pirojpur …

SALEEM SAMAD
THE MOST talked about trial of the war criminals, which occurred during the bloody war of independence of Bangladesh from Islamic Pakistan in 1971 needs to be accessible to all.
The visiting US Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Stephen J Rapp on Monday said after he reviewed to assess the standard and progress of the war crimes tribunal.
A former prosecutor for courts for Sierra Leone, and the International Crimes Tribunal of Rwanda, Rapp said the war crimes tribunal should define “crimes against humanity” at …

Bangladesh authorities have been blamed for harassment, intimidation and threats to defense lawyers and witnesses for suspects detained for war crimes.
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New York-based Human Rights Watch, in a statement issued Wednesday, urged the Bangladesh government to investigate threats to defense lawyers and witnesses in cases at the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) and take adequate steps to protect them.
Lawyers representing the accused before the ICT have reported being harassed by state officials and threatened with arrest. Several witnesses and an investigator working for the defense have also reported harassment by police and …

গত ৪ অক্টোবর আরটিভির এক টকশোতে গিয়েছিলাম। হঠাত্ করেই আমন্ত্রণ জানিয়েছিলেন আরটিভির বায়জিদ। সঞ্চালক ছিলেন গোলাম মর্তুজা। মোটামুটি অনুষ্ঠানটি ভালোই চালিয়েছেন। ট্রাইব্যুনালের পক্ষ থেকে করটিয়ার জিয়াদ আল মালুম ও এমএ হাসান ছিলেন। যুদ্ধাপরাধীদের বিচার নিয়ে একেবারে অন্ধকারে ছিলাম। তাদের দু’জনকে পেয়ে কোথায় কি হচ্ছে তার কিছুটা আলামত পেলাম। অন্ততপক্ষে এ বিষয়ে আমরা কোথায় আছি তা কিছুটা বোঝা গেল। আমার মোহাম্মদপুরের বাসা থেকে কাওরানবাজার আরটিভি অফিস খুবই কাছে। যানজট না থাকলে পাঁচ-সাত মিনিটের বেশি লাগে না। সেদিন ১৫-২০ মিনিট লেগেছিল। বয়স হয়ে গেছে। কোথাও …