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Download PDF A murder case against Jamaat-e-Islami Amir Motiur Rahman Nizami, Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojahid and seven of their party men for killing two freedom fighters during the liberation war was recorded as a first information report (FIR) by Keraniganj police Monday.
Sources said the case, which was filed with Dhaka’s chief judicial magistrate’s court fifteen days back, was recorded under sections 447/448/436/302/109/114 of Bangladesh Penal Code and was numbered 34(12) 2007.
Meantime, officer-in-charge at Keraniganj Police Station, Mallick Ruhul Islam, told The Daily Star that he has started investigation into the case.
Freedom fighter Mozaffar Ahmad Khan, who is now Dhaka district unit Muktijoddha commander, filed the murder case on December 17 last year, stating that the Jamaat men killed his nephew Osman Gani and fellow freedom fighter Golam Mostafa alias Tukub Ali on November 25 in 1971.
After recording Mozaffar’s statement, Judicial Magistrate Ashiqul Khabir directed officer-in-charge at Keraniganj Police Station to register the double murder as a first information report.
The court also asked the OC to take action against the accused after investigation into the matter.
Other accused are two assistant secretary generals of the Jamaat — Abdul Quader Molla and Muhammad Kamaruzzaman — Keraniganj upazila unit Amir Haji Nazim Uddin, Islami Chhatra Sangha leader KG Karim Babla, and Abul Kashem, Foyzur Rahman Foyaz and Yasin. The last three were al-Badr, Razakar and al-Shams activists during the war.
Complainant Mozaffar said 60 to 70 other unknown activists of the three militias took part in killing, torching and looting valuables in Keraniganj on the day.
He mentioned that the accused formed collaborating forces like Razakar, al-Badr and al-Shams during the liberation war with a view to exterminating the Bangali nation.
Nizami was made al-Badr commander of Pakistan while Mojahid acted as commander of its East Pakistan wing, said the complainant adding that Quader and Kamaruzzaman and their other accomplices also formed the higher rung of al-Badr.
The three militias took to indiscriminate killing of freedom fighters and intellectuals on orders of Nizami, Mojahid, Quader and Kamaruzzaman, he said.
The other accused killed countless people in Keraniganj and torched their houses. They also raped women in the area.
The plaintiff said on November 24 in 1971, when the nation was on the threshold of victory, his nephew Osman Gani and Golam Mostafa went to their houses to meet their parents and relatives.
The next day al-Shams and al-Badr militias, dressed in grey, surrounded their houses and hacked them to death with sharp weapons at about 8:30am, Mozaffar said adding that he went to the spot with his force on information only to find that the four Jamaat leaders had sent in Pakistani force there who, along with their local collaborators, torched hundreds of houses and killed countless people in the area.
The two victims are state-acknowledged freedom fighters for which their families now get government allowances.
The victims’ families never got justice even though they went door to door for justice, he said adding that the accused were behind bars till 1975 but walked out of prison after the annulment of Collaborators Act in December 31, 1975.
The complainant said as the subsequent governments ran their regimes with the assistance of al-Badr, al-Shams and Razakar, the families did not get justice from them.
January 2nd, 2008 at 5:44 am
Good news.The trial of war criminals must start without delay.Bangladesh will never be safe and truly independent until and unless the war criminals and anti liberation forces get proper punishment as per law of the land or international law against such atrocities.Let more and more direct suffers of war crimes file cases and people produce all evidences.Once the trials start in independent judiciary then there will be no more impediment .all crimes will then come under investigation and punishment.