The prosecution yesterday formally brought charges against two razakars of Mymensingh at the country’s International Crimes Tribunal (ICT-BD) accusing them of committing crimes against humanity in 1971.
“We have brought against the duo charges of genocide, murder and mass rape,” prosecutor Hrishikesh Saha told BSS. Chairman of the three-member ICT-BD panel Justice Anwarul Haque, he said, set November 22 for indictment hearing in the case. Saha identified the two accused as Wajiuddin, 70, and Riajuddin Fakir, 65, saying the later awaited trial in jail since he was arrested on August 11, 2015. Both the accused hailed from Phulbaria upazila of Mymensingh. Saha said a third accused of the case Amjad Ali, 88, died in hospital under police custody on September 4, 2015 in a road crash as he was being carried to Dhaka in a police van from Mymensingh.
