The International Crimes Tribunal-2 is set to deliver its judgment on Wednesday on the trial of the crimes against humanity allegedly perpetrated by Jamaat-e-Islami secretary general Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mujahid during the 1971 Liberation War.
Closing formally the law-point arguments from both sides in the Mujahid case, tribunal chairman Justice Obaidul Hassan on June 5 kept pending the pronouncement of its verdict indicating any day.
On June 21, 2012, the tribunal indicted detained accused Ali Ahsan M Mujahid for his “involvement” in crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War.
The seven counts of charges against him include planning, incitement, complicity, murder, arson, loot and conspiracy in killing intellectuals, cultural personalities and teachers, and persecution in confinement.
Prosecution produced 17 PWs before the tribunal while defence one witness to defend their case.
According to the prosecution, at the fag end of the Liberation War, Mujahid, the then chief of Al Badr, a secret killing squad of Jamaat-e-Islami, had masterminded exterminating the intellectuals and executed his plan by the members of his squad.
Also a former technocrat minister of the last BNP-led alliance government, Mujahid was behind the abduction of noted journalist Sirajuddin Hossain, the then executive editor of the daily Ittefaq, by his sidekicks from Sirajuddin’s rented house at Chamelibagh and noted music composer Altaf M
Source: UNBConnect
