From New Age
The International Crimes Tribunal on Monday set January 26 to hear the arguments on taking cognisance of the charges pressed by prosecution against detained Jamaat secretary general Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed.
On Monday morning the prosecution formally submitted a fresh charge sheet against Mojaheed.
Also known as war crimes tribunal, the ICT was instituted to try the suspects of 1971 war crimes.
According to prosecution sources, Mojaheed has been charged with 34 counts of war crimes, for his alleged complicity in genocide and crimes against humanity during the 1971 War of Independence.
Mojaheed faces charges of complicity in genocide in Faridpur, helping Pakistani occupation army in the abduction and murder of journalist Sirajuddin Hossain, musician Altaf Mahmud and freedom fighter Shafi Imam Rumi, son of Shahid Janani Jahanara Imam, in Dhaka, they said.
Mojaheed faces the charge of insisting on the occupation army to kill them immediately to prevent them from getting the benefit of general amnesty the then Pakistan president was expected to announce.
Mojaheed with his Al-Badr Bahini, an auxiliary force of the Pakistani occupation army, also faces the charges of killing 25 to 30 people, looting about 300-350 houses and setting houses on fire in the villages of Balidangi, Boidyadangi, Majhidangi in Charbhadrasan in Faridpur.
He is charged with 34 counts of war crimes, including eight counts of genocide, eight counts of crimes against humanity and murder, seven counts for insisting upon the occupation army to kill several people and 11 counts of robbery and arson.
On December 28, 2011, the tribunal returned the charge sheet against Mojaheed and Jamaat assistant secretary general Mohammad Kamaruzzaman and directed the prosecution to submit a fresh charge sheet against Kamaruzzaman by January 14 and against Mojaheed by January 16 in an organised way and proper format.
The tribunal of Justice Nizamul Huq, Justice ATM Fazle Kabir and judge AKM Zahir Ahmed had returned the charge sheets with the observation that prepared in a scattered and disorganised manner they were not in proper format.
On Sunday the prosecution submitted fresh charge sheets, which charged Kamruzzaman with nine counts of war crimes crime, including conspiracy, genocide and crimes against humanity.
The tribunal is yet to set a date for hearing the arguments on taking cognisance of the charges against Kamruzzaman.
Kamaruzzaman’s areas of operation included Mymensingh, Jamalpur, Tangail and Sherpur, according to prosecutor Zead Al Malum.
He also said Kamaruzzaman was the chief coordinator of Al Badr Bahini.
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