War crimes trial

Tribunal frames five charges against eight Jamalpur �war criminals�

they carried out mayhem in the Jamalpur sub-division in 1971

The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 today indicted 8 alleged war criminals from Jamalpur, framing five charges of crimes against humanity, reports BSS. Justice Anwarul Haque, chairman of the three-member panel of the ICT-1, framed the charges and set November 18 to place opening statement by the prosecution against the accused. The eight accused are - Md Ashraf Hossain, Sharif Ahmed alias Sharif Hossain, Md Abdul Mannan, Md Abdul Bari, Md Harun, Abul Hashem, Shamsul Haque and SM Eusuf Ali. The last two are in jail right now. According to the prosecution, Ashraf was the president of then Islami Chhatra Sangha (ICS) in Jamalpur and founded Al-Badr in his locality in 1971. The other accused too were involved ICS and its mother organisation Jamaat and subsequently joined Al-Badr, Razakar and Peace Committee, notorious auxiliary forces of Pakistani occupation army. They carried out mayhem in the Jamalpur sub-division in 1971. In the indictment order, the tribunal charged them for committing abduction, confinement, torture, murder, plundering, arson and other inhumane acts.

War crimes trial

Tribunal frames five charges against eight Jamalpur �war criminals�

they carried out mayhem in the Jamalpur sub-division in 1971

The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 today indicted 8 alleged war criminals from Jamalpur, framing five charges of crimes against humanity, reports BSS. Justice Anwarul Haque, chairman of the three-member panel of the ICT-1, framed the charges and set November 18 to place opening statement by the prosecution against the accused. The eight accused are - Md Ashraf Hossain, Sharif Ahmed alias Sharif Hossain, Md Abdul Mannan, Md Abdul Bari, Md Harun, Abul Hashem, Shamsul Haque and SM Eusuf Ali. The last two are in jail right now. According to the prosecution, Ashraf was the president of then Islami Chhatra Sangha (ICS) in Jamalpur and founded Al-Badr in his locality in 1971. The other accused too were involved ICS and its mother organisation Jamaat and subsequently joined Al-Badr, Razakar and Peace Committee, notorious auxiliary forces of Pakistani occupation army. They carried out mayhem in the Jamalpur sub-division in 1971. In the indictment order, the tribunal charged them for committing abduction, confinement, torture, murder, plundering, arson and other inhumane acts.