Top Jamaate Islami Leaders Face Charges Of Crimes Against Humanity
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New Age, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Friday, June 26, 2009
Over 1,500 people, including Jamaat leaders, sued for crime against
humanity
The law, justice and parliamentary affairs minister disclosed in
parliament on Thursday that a total of 1,522 people, including some
top leaders of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, were sued for allegedly
committing crime against humanity during the country’s liberation war
in 1971.
Replying to a question from Md. Zakir Hossain of Kurigram-4
constituency, Law minister Shafique Ahmed said that some 119 cases
were lodged against these people until May 31, 2009 for their alleged
involvement in crimes like killing, raping and arson attacks during
the liberation war.
Most of the cases were filed in 2009 after the Awami League-led
alliance, which in its 2008 election manifesto pledged for prosecution
of the war crimes, assumed office in January.
In his answer to the question, the law minister informed that
Matiur Rahman Nizami and Ali Ahsan Muhammad Muzahid, the ameer and the
secretary general of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, were among the
accused.
Jamaat had opposed the country’s independence and its leaders
collaborated with the Pakistani occupation forces in 1971 to kill
innocent people during the nine-month war which left as many as three
million people killed and about 200,000 women violated, according to
historians.
The law minister said that more than 1,000 accused were
unidentified while police arrested 70 out of the total of 1,522
accused. Fifty-seven of them were released on bail while the rest 13
were in jail, he said.
The government has initiated a move to try the 1971 war criminals
and passed a resolution in parliament to this effect on January 29.
The government sought assistance from the United Nations to make the
trial process up to international standard.
In response to another question from Khandaker Abdul Baten of
Tangail-6 constituency, Shafique said that procrastinating process of
trial is a setback for Bangladesh’s judicial system.
The government has initiated moves to settle the pending civil and
criminal cases within the shortest possible time.
The government has also strengthened the alternative dispute
resolution mechanism to settle the logjam in the courts, the minister
said.
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