2 Jamaat men arrested over war crime charges

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Rajshahi, Feb 13 (bdnews24.com) – Police say they arrested two Jamaat-e-Islami activists from Mohanpur Upazila early Friday morning in a case that charged them with war crimes.

Officer in charge of Mohanpur Police Station Asaduzzaman Milon said Daud Hossain, 70, and Noor Anwar, 65, were picked up from their homes in Dyeing Para-Berabari area.

It is the first instance in the country where alleged war criminals were arrested in a regular case, said Shahabuddin Khan, superintendent of police of Rajshahi.

Mejarul Sheikh, a day-labourer, of Birsorail area under Shah Makhdum Police Station filed the case. Mejarul is the son of a martyred freedom fighter Bashir Uddin Sheikh, said Milon, the OC.

They were activists involved with Jamaat-e-Islami politics, he said.

Mejarul lodged a first information report against 22 alleged war criminals with Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate's Court, Rajshahi, on June 22, 2007.

The court ordered the Mohanpur police to take legal steps against the accused.

Police recorded the first information report as a case on Sept. 13 after investigation.

According to the report, Shafiullah, who joined the Razakar—collaborators of Pakistan occupation army—after March 25, 1971, had drafted in 18 more people. Most of the accused are supporters of BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami.

During the independence war in 1971, they were involved with looting and murder of innocent people with assistance of invading Pakistani forces, said the FIR.

Pakistani forces with the help of the collaborators captured 15 freedom fighters on Nov. 30, 1971 and shot them, blindfolded and hands tied, dead.

"The arrestees confessed that they joined collaborators' forces during the liberation war in 1971," Khan, the SP, told bdnews24.com.

He added police had been ordered to arrest the rest 17 accused without delay.

Rupjan Begum, wife of martyred freedom fighter Moej Uddin of Berabari, came to the police station on the news.

She said her husband had never returned home after Daud and others had taken him away during the war.

She was happy over the arrest of collaborators after a long time, she said and added she would like to see those 'war criminals' tried in her lifetime.

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Rajshahi, Feb 13 (bdnews24.com) – Police say they arrested two Jamaat-e-Islami activists from Mohanpur Upazila early Friday morning in a case that charged them with war crimes.

Officer in charge of Mohanpur Police Station Asaduzzaman Milon said Daud Hossain, 70, and Noor Anwar, 65, were picked up from their homes in Dyeing Para-Berabari area.

It is the first instance in the country where alleged war criminals were arrested in a regular case, said Shahabuddin Khan, superintendent of police of Rajshahi.

Mejarul Sheikh, a day-labourer, of Birsorail area under Shah Makhdum Police Station filed the case. Mejarul is the son of a martyred freedom fighter Bashir Uddin Sheikh, said Milon, the OC.

They were activists involved with Jamaat-e-Islami politics, he said.

Mejarul lodged a first information report against 22 alleged war criminals with Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate's Court, Rajshahi, on June 22, 2007.

The court ordered the Mohanpur police to take legal steps against the accused.

Police recorded the first information report as a case on Sept. 13 after investigation.

According to the report, Shafiullah, who joined the Razakar—collaborators of Pakistan occupation army—after March 25, 1971, had drafted in 18 more people. Most of the accused are supporters of BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami.

During the independence war in 1971, they were involved with looting and murder of innocent people with assistance of invading Pakistani forces, said the FIR.

Pakistani forces with the help of the collaborators captured 15 freedom fighters on Nov. 30, 1971 and shot them, blindfolded and hands tied, dead.

"The arrestees confessed that they joined collaborators' forces during the liberation war in 1971," Khan, the SP, told bdnews24.com.

He added police had been ordered to arrest the rest 17 accused without delay.

Rupjan Begum, wife of martyred freedom fighter Moej Uddin of Berabari, came to the police station on the news.

She said her husband had never returned home after Daud and others had taken him away during the war.

She was happy over the arrest of collaborators after a long time, she said and added she would like to see those 'war criminals' tried in her lifetime.

2 Jamaat men arrested over war crime charges :: Bangladesh :: bdnews24.com ::

Please wait a day or two before posting outright accusation against Jamaaties by Daily lie, Bdnews.24 lie and prothom lie etc because its ill motivated traitorous-journalists don't spare a moment to paint Jamaaties as goons & rapists by cashing an event like this. The following is Jamaati denial in this regard,

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Much ado about nothing

Murder case, not war crimes, being probed against 2 Rajshahi arrestees; govt yet to start war criminal trial process

Julfikar Ali Manik

The recent arrest of two alleged Razakars in Rajshahi apparently gives the impression that the government has started the process of war criminals' trial, although it has yet to make a formal move to that end.

The home minister's reaction to the arrest has appeared as a beacon of hope to the people, who have long been demanding the trial of war criminals.

But the police say they have made the arrests in connection with a murder case filed last year and have little to do with war crime.

Sources in the law and home ministries say the decision to start the trial must come from the cabinet first. Before that the modus operandi needs to be discussed among the government agencies responsible to implement the whole trial process.

Police on Friday arrested Daud Hossain and Noor e Anwar in Bamundighi Berabari in Mohanpur in connection with a war crime case filed with the local police station last year.

The arrestees are originally accused in a murder case filed under section 302 and 34 of the penal code, says a policeman in Rajshahi. But the murder was committed on November 30, 1971.

Khoda Newaz, investigation officer in the case, told The Daily Star last night, "We are not investigating any war crimes here."

"But as the offences were committed during the Liberation War and Razakars were involved in the killings of 15 martyrs so we cannot absolutely rule out the possibility of war crime. But there is no such law to investigate the offence as war crime and so we're investigating it as a murder case," he elaborated.

Home Minister Sahara Khatun has earlier expressed satisfaction following the arrests of the two alleged Razakars, members of an auxiliary armed force constituted by civilians under the leadership of Jamaat-e-Islami to help Pakistani occupation forces commit genocide.

The arrest and the home minister's remarks have pinned the people's hopes on the trial of war criminals, which is also an election pledge of the ruling Awami League.

State Minister of Liberation War affairs ABM Tajul Islam told The Daily Star he thinks the police considered it as war crime just because the offence was committed during the Liberation War.

"It's just the reflection of public perception about the trial of war criminals," Tajul added.

Lt Gen (retd) Harun-ur Rashid, chief coordinator of the Sector Commanders Forum, told The Daily Star, "We cannot say right now that the process of trying war criminals has started."

"Police arrested two persons in Rajshahi in a case under the existing penal code for trying criminal offences, but war crime is a special kind of offences which should be tried under a special tribunal," he said.

Harun added, "Though the offences of the case in Rajshahi were committed during the Liberation War the case was filed last year as a civil murder case."

"As long as a special tribunal is not formed to try the war criminals where the state would be complainant, we cannot say the trial process has started," Harun observed.

Trying the war criminals is one of the top five election pledges of the present government. Even after wining the elections and forming the government Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and many of her cabinet colleagues reiterated the government's stance on the issue.

Home Minister Sahara Khatun even said last month the government has taken steps so that the war criminals cannot escape the country.

A resolution has also been passed unanimously in parliament for trying the war criminals following a proposal placed before the House by a ruling party lawmaker.

Despite all these, no major progress has been made to start the process of trial, say sources concerned in the government.

Police sources also say there is no official list of war criminals with which they can stop them from fleeing the country.

Meanwhile, sources say in different cabinet meetings the issue of trying war criminals has been discussed informally without having it on the agenda.

But no formal discussion has been made in the cabinet, the sources say, adding the issue is likely to come up at today's cabinet meeting. But the discussions are mainly limited to the possible options of starting the process.

The ministers concerned and legal experts on different occasions informally discussed whether the trial should be held under the International Crimes Tribunals Act, 1973 or whether the law should be amended or new law should be formulated, sources say.

They also discussed whether an enquiry commission should be set up first and a tribunal constituted on completion of enquiry, the sources add.

:The Daily Star: Internet Edition

 

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I think it just for show and made some Awami dalal closed their mouth. Truth is there might be more war criminal, rapists, murtads in Awami than any other party. The country already in chaos and hoodlum are again roaming the street of BD. Those looser who voted for this dalal will experience extreme disappointment.