BSS, Dhaka :
Three more cases against the perpetrators of crimes against humanity in 1971 are now in the last stage before the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT).
ICT prosecutor Rana Dasgupta told BSS that recording of the testimony against Jamaat-e-Islami executive committee member Mir Kashem Ali and BNP leader of Faridpur Zahid Hossain alias Khokan Razaker was nearing completion.
He said argument from both sides in the two cases would be initiated very soon. Khokan razaker, the sitting mayor of Nagarkanda Pourasabha, has remained absconding since the case was lodged. Dasgupta said argument in the case against Mobarak Hossain, a suspected war
criminal, would be started soon as recording of the testimony was completed earlier.
Besides, trial against Jamaat-e-Islami Nayebe Amir Abdus Sobhan and assistant secretary general ATM Azharul Islam was also started in the ICT.
The ICT-1 will pronounce the verdict in the case against Jamaat-e-Islami chief Motiur Rahman Nizami any day, as it was kept CAV on March 24.
The investigation agency of the ICT on March 27 submitted the probe report to the ICT prosecution against Jamaat-e-Islami as this organization was accused of being involved in crimes against humanity during the War of Liberation.
Turin Afroz, a prosecutor of the ICT, told BSS that they are now scrutinizing the probe report and after completion of the task it would be submitted before the tribunal for initiating the trial.
“It will be the second example in the World history to start trial against an organization on the charges of committing gruesome crimes against humanity after the Nuremberg trial against the ‘Nazi Bahini” she said.
