Formal charge against 8 Mymensingh Razakars Sept 20

The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 today set September 20 to submit formal charge or progress report on investigation against eight alleged war criminals from Mymensingh including Jatiya Party lawmaker MA Hannan.

The other accused are Hannan's son Rafique Sajjad, 62, Khandakar Golam Sabbir Ahmed, 69, Mizanur Rahman Mintu, 63, Hormuj Ali, 73, Mohammad Abdus Sattar, 64, Mohammad Fakruzzaman, 61, and Khandakar Golam Rabbani, 63.

Justice Anwarul Haque, chairman of the three-member panel of the ICT-1, set the date as prosecutor Sultan Mahmud Simon sought two and half months to submit the report.

"We have received the probe report from the investigation agency just yesterday. We need to go through the report and set the charges that we would like to press against the accused. That is why we need time," said the senior prosecutor.

Accepting the plea of the prosecution, the ICT-1 adjourned the hearing till September 20.

Yesterday, the investigation agency of the ICT completed their probe report against the accused, bringing five charges of crimes against humanity.

"We have found their involvement in five incidents of war crimes took place between April 21 and December 10 in Mymensingh. They were involved in crimes like arson, looting, abduction, confinement, torture, and killing," said Mohammad Abdul Hannan Khan, coordinator of the agency, to newsmen at a briefing held at its Dhanmandi office.

Of the eight, except Fakruzzaman and Rabbani, all the accused are behind bars now.

According to the agency, Hannan, who was general secretary of Mymensingh unit of Peace Committee, led his men in carrying out monstrous crimes against humanity from three different camps. Those three camps were situated at Mymensingh district rest house, East Pakistan Agriculture University (now Bangladesh Agriculture University) and Hannan's house.

Source: BSS