The tribunal also ordered the Inspector General of Police to arrest Jabbar with the help of Interpol
The Interpol (International Criminal Police Organisation) has issued a “red notice” for the arrest of war convicted Abdul Jabbar.
The red alert was issued on the charges of abetting, instigating, aiding and facilitating the commission of offenses of looting, arson, murder and deportation as crime against humanity during the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971.
Of the eight types of notices of Interpol, the red notice seeks the location and arrest of a person wanted by a judicial jurisdiction or an international tribunal with a view to his/her extradition.
Red notice is the “closest instrument to an international arrest warrant in use today.”
The Interpol list of wanted persons carried Zabbar’s picture with details about the war convict.
After the independence, he went into hiding and remained fugitive until the political changeover of August 15, 1975.
Resuming politics, Jabbar was elected lawmaker from Mathbaria in 1986 and 1988 with Jatiya Party ticket. Later, Jabbar has also been on the run since 2009.
On February 24 this year, International Crimes Tribunal sentenced former Jatiya Party lawmaker engineer Mohammad Abdul Jabbar to imprisonment unto death for committing crimes against humanity in Pirojpur during the 1971 Liberation War.
The tribunal also ordered the Inspector General of Police to arrest Jabbar with the help of Interpol.
The former chairman of the local unit of the Peace Committee had played a key role in the formation of the razakar force and led collaborators in committing crimes in Mathbaria during the 1971 Liberation War.
Source: Dhaka Tribune
