General Niazi’s strategy of “stretched out fingers rolling back into an iron fist” to hammer the enemy was falling apart as the Indian army and Muktibahini were racing fast towards Dhaka in December, bypassing his army outposts. The Pakistan general…
“What an impious butchery! What a sacrilegious act! What a shame for the human civilisation!” These words echoed through the courtroom of International Crimes Tribunal-2 as its chairman yesterday read out the charge against and the punishment to war criminals…
The tribunal’s verdict of capital punishment for Chowdhury Mueen Uddin and Ashrafuzzaman Khan met the expectations of justice seekers yesterday. But they were hardly relieved by the judgement as the convicts were still at large in the UK and the…
The demand for investigation, trial and punishment to the killers of the intellectuals started mounting when the horrors of the grisly killings were unfolding immediately after the Liberation War. Inquiry into the gruesome massacre, which cast a shadow over the…
For 42 years, memories of their loved ones being abducted at gunpoint haunted them. Yesterday, families of the martyred intellectuals shared with Tamanna Khan and Mahbubur Rahman Khan their pain of all these years and the solace the verdict brought…
The unseen walls inside which he kept, or rather treasured, his many emotions all these years fell apart yesterday. His brimming eyes could not hold back the large tears when the verdict against the killers of his father, martyred journalist…
The International Crimes Tribunal-2 yesterday said Jamaat-e-Islami played a pertinent and culpable role in killing notable pro-liberation intellectuals, the best sons and daughters of the soil. Sentencing Al-Badr leaders Chowdhury Mueen Uddin and Ashrafuzzaman Khan to death for abducting and…
Gonojagoron Mancha activists yesterday celebrated the verdict that sentenced fugitive war criminals Chowdhury Mueen Uddin and Ashrafuzzaman Khan to death, and called for immediate execution of the verdict. The mancha activists had occupied the space in front the National Museum…
A special court in Dhaka today awarded death penalty to Chowdhury Mueen Uddin and Ashrafuzzaman Khan for their offences during Bangladesh’s war of independence 42 years back. The judgement was delivered in absence of the convicts as the International Crimes…
The government will try to bring back fugitive war criminals Chowdhury Mueen Uddin and Ashrafuzzaman Khan from abroad to execute their death sentence for war crimes, Law Minister Shafique Ahmed said today. The minister was giving his reaction to newsmen…
Alleged Al-Badr leaders Chowdhury Mueen Uddin and Ashrafuzzaman Khan are facing 11 charges including killing of the brightest sons of the soil towards the end of the Liberation War. The charges are as follows: They allegedly abducted and killed 18…
The prosecution yesterday completed its closing arguments and sought capital punishment for “Al-Badr leaders” Chowdhury Mueen Uddin and Ashrafuzzaman Khan for allegedly abducting and killing 18 intellectuals during the Liberation War. “They [Mueen and Ashraf] deserve the capital punishment for…
The prosecution yesterday completed their closing arguments on factual aspects in the war crimes case against alleged Al-Badr leaders Chowdhury Mueen Uddin and Ashrafuzzaman Khan. International Crimes Tribunal-2 led by Justice Obaidul Hassan today is set to hear its arguments…
Delwar Hossain, the lone survivor of Rayerbazar massacre, yesterday testified that he had seen alleged Al-Badr leaders Chowdhury Mueen Uddin and Ashrafuzzaman Khan supervise and lead the intellectual killing mission in 1971. Delwar, who was detained and tortured at the…
Eminent educationist Prof Anisuzzaman yesterday testified that the plot to kill the intellectuals was hatched in August and was executed by infamous Al-Badr force in December 1971 in an attempt to cripple the soon-to-be-independent Bangladesh. Chowdhury Mueen Uddin, operation-in-charge of…
A prosecution witness yesterday showed several newspaper reports of December 1971 and January 1972, where photographs of Chowdhury Mueen Uddin and Ashrafuzzaman Khan were published with a call for their capture. Azab Uddin Miah, an assistant librarian at Bangla Academy,…
A relative of martyred doctor Mohammad Martuza yesterday testified that alleged Al-Badr leaders Chowdhury Mueen Uddin and Ashrafuzzaman Khan were “directly involved” in the killing of intellectuals and professionals in December, 1971. Omar Hayat, brother-in-law of Martuza, told International Crimes…
Enamul Huq Khan, son of martyred intellectual Serajul Haque Khan, yesterday testified that Chowdhury Mueen Uddin and Ashrafuzzaman Khan led the abduction of his father and seven other intellectuals from the Dhaka University campus on December 14, 1971. Quoting the…
Jamaat leader Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed had made an audacious comment in 2007 that there were no war criminals in Bangladesh and last week the Al-Badr leader was convicted and condemned for crimes against humanity he committed during the Liberation…
Shumon Zahid, son of martyred journalist Selina Parvin, yesterday testified that alleged Al-Badr leader Chowdhury Mueen Uddin was among the abductors who took away his mother on December 13, 1971. Shumon, third prosecution witness in the case against “absconding” Mueen…
Martyred journalist Selina Parvin’s son Sunday testified that alleged Al-Badr leader Chowdhury Mueen Uddin and his associates had abducted her mother from their residence on December 13, 1971. Shumon Zahid, also the third prosecution witness in the war crimes case…
Alleged Al-Badr leaders Chowdhury Mueen Uddin and Ashrafuzzaman Khan were directly involved in the abduction and killing of intellectual Prof Munier Chowdhury, said Asif Munier, son of the martyred intellectual, in his testimony yesterday. Asif, who was only four years…
A Dhaka tribunal on Monday framed 11 charges against “Al-Badr leaders” Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin and Ashrafuzzaman Khan in absentia for their alleged involvement in crimes against humanity committed during the country’s Liberation War in 1971. The charges include abduction and murder…
