Two Razakar now at tribunal

A war crimes tribunal will today deliver the verdict of two Bagerhat men accused of crimes against humanity during Bangladesh’s Liberation War.

The accused Sheikh Sirajul Haque alias Siraj Master and Khan Akram Hossain were taken to tribunal premises around 9:00am for their verdict.

International Crimes Tribunal-1 headed by Justice M Enayetur Rahim is scheduled to start delivering the verdict after 10:00am.

One other Abdul Latif Talukder, who was also accused along with these two men, has been abated from the trial as he died undergoing treatments at a Dhaka hospital a few days ago.

On June 11, 2014, police arrested the 68-year-old Latif in his home after the tribunal issued an arrest warrant against Latif and Sirajul and Akram over crimes committed during the 1971 Liberation War.

On November 5, 2014, ICT-1 indicted the three on seven charges of which four were brought against Sirajul alone, two against all of them for killing 47 people and one against Akram and Latif for killing a person. The accused, however, pleaded “not guilty” to the wartime offences.