BANGLADESH NEWS
A prosecution witness on Tuesday narrated before the ICT -2 how a Razakar team led by Jamaat leader Abdul Quader Mollah killed five people in the capital’s Mirpur area during the country's Liberation War in 1971.
Syed Shahidul Haque, a freedom fighter and the second witness in the war-crimes case against Mollah, gave his statement before the International Crimes Tribunal led by Chairman ATM Fazle Kabir.
He gave two statements against the Jamaat leader, who is indicted with six charges for involvement in murders and mass killings during the Liberation War.
Quoting witnesses Shahidul said on March 27 in 1971, Mollah and his aides including Hasib Hashmi, Akhter and some other people killed pro-liberation poet Meherun Nesa, her mother and two brothers at Mirpur.
He also gave statement over killing of Pallab, whose pet name was Tuntuni, on April 5 at Mirpur.
Akhter and his cohorts forcibly brought Pallab to Mollah at Mirpur from Thataribazar area.
The anti-liberation people cut Pallab's fingers off and tortured him and later killed him mercilessly.
During the deposition, accused Mollah was not present before the tribunal as he was exempted on Monday from personal appearance for today.
Earlier, on July 3, Mozaffar Ahmed Khan, a freedom fighter and the first prosecution witness in the war-crimes case against Mollah, gave his statement before the tribunal and appealed for exemplary punishment of the "war criminal".
On May 28, Jamaat's Assistant Secretary General Abdul Quader Mollah was indicted for crimes against humanity committed during the Liberation War.
The Jamaat leader was arrested in a criminal case on July 13, 2010, and later shown arrested in the case.
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