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Nizami charged with Pabna massacre:

Nizami charged with Pabna massacre

Prosecution tells ICT 450 people were shot dead in one incident on his order in '71

Staff Correspondent

During the Liberation War, as many as 450 Hindus were put into a large hole and shot to death en masse at the directive of Motiur Rahman Nizami, the prosecution told the International Crimes Tribunal yesterday.

Many women were also raped during the incident that took place on May 14, 1971 in Pabna's Baulkhali village, said prosecutor Altaf Uddin Ahmed reading out the formal charges against the Jamaat-e-Islami ameer.

The prosecutor yesterday finished reading out the 73-page formal charges filed on December 11 last year. The three-member tribunal headed by its Chairman Justice Md Nizamul Huq adjourned the hearing until March 21.

Nizami was not produced before the court yesterday in line with the tribunal's decision. He is facing 15 charges of crimes against humanity committed during the Liberation War.

According to the prosecution, the charges include genocide, rape, torture, abduction and confinement of Bangalee people in greater Pabna, Jessore, Chittagong and Dhaka, and abetment of and attempt or conspiracy to perform such acts during the war.

The judges, however, were not satisfied with the way some of the offences were presented in the formal charges.

Justice Nizamul Huq was particularly surprised that the killing of intellectuals was not included as an individual crime in the formal charges against Nizami.

The Jamaat chief was the commander of Al-Badr, one of the auxiliary forces set up to collaborate with the Pakistani occupation army in 1971, which actively took part in the killings of intellectuals.

CHARGES AGAINST NIZAMI

Narrating one of the incidents, prosecutor Altaf Uddin yesterday said freedom fighter Abdul Majed was abducted and brutally tortured and murdered on August 9, 1971.

“A note was attached to his body that read: 'Ar jara achho tara Nizami ar Sobhan Mawlanar kachhe attoshomorpon koro' [those who are still out there, surrender before Nizami and Sobhan Mawlana],” said the prosecutor.

According to the prosecutor, on May 8, 1971, collaborators surrounded the house of Surendranath Thakur in Pabna's Sathia on Nizami's order.

People from the neighbouring houses were lined up in front of Thakur's house of worship. They were shot dead. Many women were also raped then, Altaf added.

Altaf said freedom fighter Abdus Selim along with his father Shahid Sohrab Ali and a cousin fled to India. After they left, their village was surrounded on Nizami's order on November 11.

Many were abducted and brutally tortured then. They were asked about the whereabouts of Selim and told that they would be shot if they did not cooperate. Some 72 houses were set ablaze in that village.

Nizami was also involved in the murder of 19 people in Ishwardi on April 16, 1971, according to the charges, which also state that he along with Jamaat leader Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed was involved in the killing of a number of prisoners in an army camp at Nakhalpara.

Mojaheed, secretary general of Jamaat, is also facing war crimes charges at the tribunal.

The two Jamaat leaders went to the army camp on the night of August 30, 1971. They decided that some prisoners at the camp should be killed before the president announced a general amnesty.

Many prisoners, including Bodi, Rumi and Jewel were killed, the charges say.

According to prosecutor Altaf, Nizami along with former Jamaat-e-Islami chief Ghulam Azam frequently visited the army camp at Physical Training Institute in Mohammadpur where they plotted crimes against humanity.

Nizami also frequently gave speeches encouraging anti-liberation forces to eliminate the supporters of independence, the prosecutor added.

“Pakistan is the house of the Almighty,” Nizami told a gathering of Islami Chhatra Sangha, Jamaat's student wing in 1971, at Chittagong Muslim Institute on August 3.

“He is protecting his beloved land with the army. This land must be protected.”

The prosecutor said Nizami, in another speech at an Islamic discussion held at Dhaka University on August 22, said, “Those who want to divide Pakistan have taken up arms,” and stressed that the pro-liberation forces must be eliminated.

With these speeches, the Jamaat chief provoked active opposition to the liberation forces, the prosecutor added.

PREPARATION OF PROSECUTION

After the prosecution finished reading out the formal charges, the tribunal chairman asked prosecutor Altaf Uddin Ahmed whether he was prepared to place arguments supporting the charges.

The prosecutor said he was ready.

Justice Nizamul Huq reminded the prosecutor that he would have to substantiate the charges brought against Nizami in his argument and suggested that the prosecutor come prepared on March 21.

Justice AKM Zaheer Ahmed of the tribunal also asked the prosecutor, “Are you ready?”

Prosecutor Altaf replied that he was indeed ready.

“Then let's just begin with the last charge that you read out. The rest can wait till later.”

He then asked the prosecutor to read out the 15th and the last charge, which says Nizami conspired with a Razakar commander named Samad at a collaborators' camp in a Pabna school.

Justice Ahmed asked the prosecutor why he proposed charging Nizami for crimes against humanity [murder, genocide, enslavement, torture, rape, etc] for only plotting and conspiring.

As Altaf could not give a convincing answer, prosecutor Syed Haider Ali argued that it was the conspiracy that resulted in those crimes.

The tribunal pointed out that the description of the charges does not say that the crimes against humanity took place because of those conspiracies and plots.

Haider argued that the charge has a larger context and is connected to other charges, which are not independent.

Justice Ahmed replied that if the charges were indeed not independent, the prosecution has actually brought only two charges against Nizami in a generalised context.

The judge then identified conspiracy and command responsibility as the two charges in a broad context.

At that point, the tribunal drew an example from Wednesday where another prosecutor failed to give satisfactory answer to the judges' queries in a case against Abdul Quader Mollah, another Jamaat leader.

“The investigation is not being done properly,” said Justice AKM Zaheer Ahmed, recalling that the investigation officer or the prosecution failed to find any early news reports on the murder of poet Meherunnesa in Mollah's case.

The prosecution brought a news report and a book published in 2007 as evidence for the murder of the poet in 1971 although the incident prompted over a hundred news reports starting from 1972, the tribunal observed.

NO CHARGES FOR INTELLECTUALS' MURDER

At one point during yesterday's proceedings, the tribunal chairman asked prosecutors Altaf Uddin and Haider Ali why Nizami was not charged with the killing of the intellectuals in 1971.

One of the counts at the formal charge mentions the Physical Training Institute, where Al-Badr cadres brought the intellectuals after abducting them.

References say that intellectuals were tortured at that facility before they were killed, said the tribunal chairman.

The charge, however, only holds Nizami responsible for the atrocities committed at the institute between March 25 and December 16, 1971.

Prosecutor Haider Ali told the tribunal that the killing of the intellectuals was mentioned in the formal charges.

Justice Nizmaul Huq agreed that it was “touched upon”. “But why not bring a charge?” he commented.

The prosecutor said they had enough evidence to substantiate Nizami's involvement in the murders.

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Explain ISI funding, Hasina asks Khaleda

March 7, 2012 | Filed under: Bangladesh Politics,Politics | Posted by: mansoor

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday called upon her arch rival Khaleda Zia to explain in public why she had taken money, as had been alleged, from Pakistani intelligence agency.
Referring to media report that Khaleda took money from Pakistan’s Inter Service Intelligence before 1991 elections, the prime minister said the opposition leader was serving the interest of a country, which conceded defeat to Bangladeshies in 1971 war of liberation. “She (Khaleda) has sold the country’s (Bangladesh) interest to Pakistan by taking the money. She must answer as people want to know why she had taken funds from ISI (Inter Service Intelligence),” the prime minister said.
Hasina, also the chief of ruling Awami League, was addressing a crowd of several hundred thousands party supporters before they started a colourful procession from Suhrawardy Udyan marking the 41st anniversary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s de-facto declaration of Bangladesh’s independence in 1971 in his historic March 7 speech.
The AL chief said that the people would never pardon the opposition leader as she was trying to make Pakistan happy by taking the side of war criminals who collaborated with the then Pakistani occupation forces and killed freedom loving people, and looted numerous homesteads.
Hasina reiterated her pledge for holding the war crimes trial saying that the opposition leader would not be able to save the perpetrators of the crimes against humanity committed during the liberation war.
“Do you want to protect the war criminals? You will not be able to save them. War crimes trial will take place on Bangladesh soil, God willing,” the prime minister said pointing to opposition leader Kahleda Zia’s alleged attempt to foil the on-going trial.
The Ziaur Rahman government awarded the killers of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman with diplomatic jobs after they were given indemnity.
“Those killers were executed, and the war criminals will also be tried,” she said.
The crowd also chorused for speedy trial of the “branded” criminals who collaborated with the Pakistani forces to unleash atrocities on civilians during the war.
People from different parts of the capital and its adjoining areas thronged beside the Udyan (formerly known as Race Course Ground) from where Bangabandhu had made the clarion call for Bangladesh’s liberation which inspired the nation to win victory in the following nine-month armed struggle culminating on December 16, 1971.
The Awami League’s programme is apparently a showdown against the Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s planned march towards Dhaka on March 12 over its demand for revival of constitutional provision of caretaker administration to oversee the next general elections.
The ruling party terms opposition programmes a ploy to foil the war crimes trials.
The crowds congregating at the meeting venue in front of Institution of Engineers Bangladesh, spilled over to Paltan crossing, Doel crossing, Teacher-Student Centre and Shahbagh  and Kataban crossing. The AL rally caused huge traffic congestion at all thoroughfares in the capital since noontime.
After the prime minister formally inaugurated the procession at around 5.30 pm, the activists marched towards Bangabandhu Bhaban, where the parade eventually terminated in the evening.
The prime minister arrived at the podium at 4.45 pm and assured the crowd that her government was keen to keep its pledge to try the perpetrators of 1971 atrocities.
Hasina expressed her gratitude to the electors as they overwhelmingly mandated her party in 2008 election to assume office paving the ways for the war crimes trial.
The opposition has chosen the month of December and March for movement to protect the collaborators, Hasina said.
“These months are memorable in our history for victory and independence. People will not allow you to implement your design,” she said adding that her government would never allow anyfoul play with the country’s independence and sovereignty.
The prime minister also called upon her party activists to remain united for smooth holding the war crimes trial as, what she said, the opposition parties were hatching conspiracies to halt the trial at any cost.
Presided over by Awami League presidium member Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury, the rally was addressed, among others, by the party’s advisory board members Amir Hossain Amu and Tofail Ahmed, presidium members Matia Chowdhury and Suranjit Sengupta, General Secretary Syed Ashraful Islam and Assistant General Secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif.
Referring to the media reports, AL General Secretary and LGRD Minister Syed Ashraful Islam said Khaldea Zia was a “paid agent” of Pakistani intelligence agency.
It has been revealed that she took 50 million rupees during the 1991 election, said the AL leader adding that how much money she had taken during the 1996, 2001 and 2008 elections would also be disclosed someday.
AL activists from different wards and adjacent areas of the capital started gathering at the Engineers Institution area from the morning turning the venue into a human sea.
Chanting slogans the processionists marched towards the venue carrying colourful banners and festoons. Wearing tea-shirts designed with the portrait of Bangabandhu, the ruling party activists filled the Shahbag area before the arrival of the party president and prime minister Sheikh Hasina.
Many of the processions had by band parties which added a festive mood to the programme.
Earlier, the day’s programme started with paying rich tributes by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman by placing wreaths at his portrait in front of Bangabandhu Memorial Museum at Dhanmandi in the city.
She first laid a wreath at the portrait of Bangabandhu as the prime minister.
After placing the wreath, she stood in solemn silence for sometimes as a mark of respect to the memory of the the architect of the independence.
Flanked by central leaders of the party, Hasina, also the president of Bangladesh Awami League, placed another wreath at the portrait on behalf of her party.
Ministers, state ministers, AL advisory council members, PM’s advisers, lawmakers and central leaders of the party and its associate organisations were present on the occasion.
Later, leaders and workers of Awami League’s associate organisations including, Juba League, Chhatra League, Mahila Awami League, Sramik League, Krishak League, Juba Mahila League and Swechchasebok League also paid homage to Bangabandhu by placing wreaths at his portrait on the occasion.

Source: The Independent

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