Monday, December 12, 2011
War crimes charges pressed against Ghulam Azam
Prosecution asks for his arrest
Ghulam AzamStar Online Report
The prosecution on Monday pressed charges against former Jamaat-e-Islami chief Ghulam Azam in connection with crimes against humanity committed during the 1971 Liberation War.
While placing the charges before the International Crimes Tribunal, Chief Prosecutor Ghulam Arieff Tipoo also placed a prayer for issuing warrant of arrest against the ex-Jamaat ameer for trial.
Total 52 allegations of crimes against humanity have been raised against Ghulam Azam.
After submission of the charges, the tribunal asked the prosecutors to submit the formal charges against Ghulam Azam through the ICT registrar office.
The tribunal will decide on whether charges against Ghulam Azam will be taken into cognisance after receiving the charges through the registrar's office.
Prosecution sources claimed that Ghulam Azam and some Jamaat-e-Islami leaders had close relations with the Pakistani military rulers even before the 'Operation Search Light', the crackdown by the Pakistan army on the unarmed Bangladeshis on March 25, 1971.
Thousands of innocent Bangalees – many of them teachers and students of Dhaka University – were massacred as the military launched a genocide, which continued throughout the nine-month Liberation War.
Prosecution sources also claimed they have proof that Jamaat leaders had met the then Pakistan president Gen Yahya Khan and Gen Tikka Khan, the infamous "Butcher of Baluchistan", and hailed 'Operation Search Light' saying that Pakistan and Islam had been saved.
Prosecution sources said they have found that Ghulam Azam, the ameer of then East Pakistan Jamaat-e-Islami, was the civilian supreme commander of the Peace Committee, Razakar, Al Badr and Al Shams, which had collaborated as auxiliary forces with the Pakistan occupation army in 1971.
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