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Probe under way for alleged war crimes by the Jamaat The investigating agency of Bangladesh’s ‘International War Crime Tribunals’ have launched a formal probe into the alleged war crimes committed by the Jamaat-e-Islami as a political party during the country’s liberation war in 1971. The probe began after the two tribunals, set up to deal with war-time offences, through several verdicts put the spotlight on Jamaat-e-Islami’s role in 1971. While sentencing Jamaat guru Ghulam Azam to 90 year jail, a war crimes tribunal said in its July 15 verdict, ‘Taking the contextual circumstances coupled with documentary evidence into consideration, we are led to observe that Jamaat-e-Islami as a political party under the leadership of accused Prof Ghulam Azam intentionally functioned as a ‘criminal organisation’ especially during the War of Liberation of Bangladesh in 1971. The tribunal also said, “The Jamaat had indulged in indiscriminate massacre of their political opponents belonging to the Bangalee nation in the name of liquidating ‘miscreants’ and ‘infiltrators’ for which it had used Razakars and Al- Badar.” Based on those observations the activities of the auxiliary forces of the Pakistan army like the Razakars, Al- Badr, Al-Shams and Peace Committee would also come under investigation, said Abdul Hannan Khan, chief coordinator of the investigating agency of the war crimes tribunals on Sunday. He also said, the investigating agency would submit formal charges against the party before the war crimes tribunal on completion of probe. A total of 10 top leaders of Jamaat-e- Islami, which sided with the Pakistan army as a political party to resist the Bangladesh’s independence from Pakistan, are now facing trials in the two war crimes tribunals. Five of them have already been convicted of crimes against humanity and genocide and sentenced either to death or imprisonment for life-time and 90 years. bdinn/news/probe-under- way-for-alleged-war-crimes-by-the- jamaat/
Posted on: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 23:57:02 +0000

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