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    Police on manhunt for 124 fugitive war criminals

    Of the fugitives, 37 were sentenced to the death penalty, life-term or different terms in jail

    By Nuruzzaman Labu
    The Dhaka Tribune

    At least 124 people who are facing charges, under trial, or convicted of committing crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War have long been on the run due to the lack of a specific law enforcement unit to arrest them.

    The Police Headquarters recently gave special instructions to all its units to arrest these persons at the earliest, providing a list.

    According to the Police Headquarters and the investigative agency of the International Crimes Tribunal of Bangladesh (ICT-BD), investigations against six of the fugitive accused and trials against 81 accused are ongoing.

    Thirty-seven of the fugitives were sentenced to death penalty, life-term or different terms in jail.

    Among them, the whereabouts of four convicts have been found, so far. They are Razakar leader Abul Kalam Azad alias Bachchu Razakar of Faridpur (death sentence), currently in Pakistan; al-Badr leaders Chowdhury Mueen Uddin (death sentence) of Feni, now in the UK, and Ashrafuzzaman Khan (death penalty) of Gopalganj, now in the USA; and Razakar leader Zahid Hossain Khokon alias MA Zahid Hossain alias Khokon Razakar (death penalty) of Faridpur, said to be in Sweden.

    Some of the fugitives have been arrested by law enforcement officials, including the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB).

    Since its inception in 2009, the tribunal has handed down verdicts in over 50 cases. Most of the cases are now pending with the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court as the convicts have filed appeals against the verdicts.

    The Supreme Court has disposed of appeals in ten cases, and six convicted war criminals have been hanged, so far.

    At a meeting between senior police officers and the representatives of the war crimes investigation agency, it was also decided to send the complete and updated list to the Special Branch of the police so that the accused could not escape abroad. Besides, the meeting also decided that any unit can conduct operations to arrest the fugitives.

    Police Headquarters DIG (Operations) Haider Ali Khan said arresting the accused under warrant is part of the regular work of law enforcement. However, instructions have been given with special emphasis on the arrest of people accused of crimes against humanity.

    M Sanaul Haque, coordinator of the tribunal's investigation agency, lamented that the arrest warrants had not been implemented even though trials in many of the cases were completed.

    He said: “Many are on the run or living a comfortable life. For this reason, the list has been sent to the Police Headquarters. A request has been made for the speedy arrest of the absconding accused.”

    Sanaul, also a former police chief, said: “Police are busy with various tasks. That may be why there has been a laxity in the arrest of people accused of crimes against humanity. Now they have started to act. The absconding accused should be quickly arrested and brought to justice.”

    Of the fugitives, investigation is underway against six people from Satkhira: Korban Ali Gazi, Abdul Jalil Gazi, Abul Hussain Gazi, Surat Ali Gazi, Abdul Aziz alias Aziz Commander and Nawab Ali Gazi alias Noba.

    The other death-row convicts now on the run include Engineer Abdul Jabbar of Pirojpur, Nasir Uddin Ahmed alias Nasir alias Captain ATM Nasir of Kishoreganj, Abdul Aziz Mia alias Ghora Mara Aziz of Gaibandha, Moulvibazar Razakar commander Neshar Ali.

    https://www.dhakatribune.com/banglad...-arav-khan-now
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    ‘Jollad’ Shahjahan, who executed 26 convicts including 6 killers of Bangabandhu, walks out of jail

    The 73-year-old executioner Shahjahan Bhuiyan walked out of Dhaka Central Jail today, after serving over three decades in prison.

    Subhas Kumar Ghosh, senior jail superintendent of the central prison, confirmed the development, saying that Shahjahan was freed around 1 pm.

    According to the prison authority, Shahjahan was born at Ichhakhali village in Palash upazila of Narsingdi on March 26, 1950.

    He got involved in local politics after higher secondary certificate exam.

    Shahjahan was sentenced to 12 years in jail in a robbery case along with the financial penalty of Tk 5,000 on November 8, 1992.

    In another robbery and murder case, he was given life term imprisonment and fined Tk 5,000 more.

    In the cases, in total, he was given 42 years of jail time.

    He was shifted to Dhaka Central Prison on November 21, 1995 from Manikganj.

    Shahjahan executed 26 convicts, including six killers of the Father of Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, four war crimes criminals, two JMB operatives, notorious terrorist Ershad Shikdar, Monir and Khuku in Sharmin Rima murder case, among others – between 2001 and his release, according to his jail file.

    The jail authority pardoned 10 years, five months and 28 days from his prison term for his role as an executioner and demonstration of discipline.

    As per the account, Shahjahan served 31 years, six months and two days in jail.

    https://unb.com.bd/category/Banglade...of-jail/117445
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    Prof. Taher killers' hanged in Rajshahi central jail

    Two death-row convicts in the case of Professor S Taher Ahmed of the Department of Geology and Mining in Rajshahi University (RU) were executed in Rajshahi Central Jail tonight after more than 17 years of the murder.

    Two executed are: Associate Professor Dr Mia Mohammad Mohiuddin of the same department and the deceased's caretaker Md Jahangir Alam.

    The execution was done at the same stage and same time amid tight security from 10.01 pm to 10.30 pm with presence of deputy inspector general of prison, senior jail super, jailor and representatives of other government agencies concerned.

    After completing all necessary legal procedures and formalities, body of Dr Mia Mohammad Mohiuddin was sent to his village home in Bhanga Upazila of Faridpur district, while Jahangir's body was sent to his ancestral home at Khojapur in Rajshahi city for burial.

    Earlier, all legal procedures had been exhausted as the Supreme Court rejected the pleas of the death-row convicts and the President turned down the Marcy petitions.

    Body of Prof Taher of Geology and Mining Department was found in a septic tank two days after he went missing on February 1, 2006.

    Two days later, his son Sanzid filed a murder case with Motihar Police Station in Rajshahi.

    Rajshahi Speedy Trial Tribunal on May 22, 2008, awarded death penalty to four people. Others, including former RU Chhatra Shibir president Mahbubul Alam Salehi, were acquitted later.

    On May 13, 2013, the High Court confirmed the capital punishment of Dr Mohiuddin and Jahangir but commuted the punishment of Salam and Nazmul to imprisonment until death.

    The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court turned down the review petitions of the two condemned prisoners on March 2, 2023.

    An eight-member bench headed by Chief justice Hasan Foez Siddique passed the order.

    In a latest development, the SC has rejected the petitions which solicited an order to halt execution of convicts.

    The four-member bench of the Appellate Division led by Chief Justice Hasan Foez Siddique passed the order. So, there was no bar to execute the two death row convicts now.

    Various reasons including professional jealousy and fundamental politics of Chhatra Shibir in Rajshahi University campus acted behind the killing of Prof Taher, sources said.

    Taher was a Professor at the Geology and Mining Department while convict Mohiuddin was an Associate Professor of the same department.

    In its observation, the court said that convict Prof Dr Mia Mohammad Mohiuddin feared that he would not be able to become a professor if Taher remained alive and that's why killed him out of professional jealousy.

    https://www.bssnews.net/news-flash/138724
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    Bangladesh charges opposition party leadership with murder

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    Bangladesh’s main opposition leader and more than 100 other top party members were charged on Sunday with the murder of a policeman killed in demonstrations that have erupted ahead of upcoming elections.

    “At least 164 Bangladesh Nationalist Party including Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir were accused of murdering the police officer,” police official Salahuddin Mia said, adding that charges had been filed against them.

    Those being charged make up the bulk of the BNP leadership and potentially face up to the death penalty if they are found guilty.

    Alamgir, 75, the BNP’s secretary-general, has led the party since BNP chairwoman and two-time former premier Khaleda Zia was arrested and jailed, and her son went into exile in Britain.

    Dhaka police commissioner Habibur Rahman had earlier said Alamgir had been “detained for interrogation” for Saturday’s violence in which a police officer and a protester were killed, and at least 26 police ambulances were torched or damaged.

    Police on Saturday said the officer had been hacked to death and accused BNP activists of the killing.

    The resurgent opposition has been mounting protests against the prime minister for months, despite ailing leader Zia being effectively under house arrest since her release from prison after a conviction on corruption charges.

    Saturday’s protests by BNP and the largest Islamist party, Jamaat-e-Islami, were among the biggest this year, and marked a new phase in their campaigning, with a general election due before the end of January.

    Protests continued on Sunday in multiple locations.

    More than 100,000 supporters of the two major opposition parties rallied on Saturday to demand Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina step down to allow a free and fair vote under a neutral government.

    Dhaka Metropolitan Police said at least 1,480 opposition activists had been arrested and charged with violence since 21 October.

    They include nearly 700 people arrested during Saturday’s protests.

    https://tribune.net.ph/2023/10/bangl...p-with-murder/
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    Mujib murder convict Nur Chowdhury sped away to evade Canadian TV

    The man, convicted of shooting Bangladesh’s founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman dead, sped away as Canadian national CBC TV network approached him for comments on his role in the assassination and the story he told the Canadian officials for his protection.

    ‘Sir, if we could just have . . . just a quick conversation . . . I just want know if you have been truthful with Canadians about your role in the assassination,’ a CBC TV journalist was seen asking someone onboard a white SUV car, which was about to get started.

    The man was one of fugitive convicts, sacked major Nur Chowdhury, while CBS TV’s investigative journalist Mark Kelly described him as someone who pitted Canada against Bangladesh as he was living in Canada for the past 27 years.

    In reply to the CBS TV journalist’s question, the killer was heard saying ‘just a second, just a second, I have an (indistinct chatter)’ and then hastily maneuvered the car and subsequently sped away. The report also showed a glimpse of him on the balcony of an apartment in Toronto.

    The presenter and colleague at that point were seen to run after Nur’s car few steps in their attempt to persuade him to stop and talk and then Kelly commented ‘after 27 years living freely in Canada, it seems he has nothing more to add’.

    Most plotters of the August 15, 1975 putsch fled the country in 1996 when the general elections brought Awami League back to power while until then they were protected from justice under an infamous indemnity law.

    Nur took refuge in Canada and continued to live there a quiet life and for years his whereabouts were unknown.

    The CBS TV’s popular investigative segment The Fifth State aired the 42-minute documentary two days ago with a title -- Assassin Next Door - questioning ‘Why the killer of Bangladesh’s first president is free in Canada’.

    Returning to power after exhausting 21 years in a political wilderness Awami League scrapped the Indemnity Act to expose the killers to justice while after a protracted legal process Noor and 11 other sacked military officers were sentenced to death and six of them were hanged so far.

    The rests were on the run abroad while the government later confirmed one of them to have died a natural death while he was in hiding in Zimbabwe.

    Bangladesh authorities could confirm the current abode of another convict sacked major Rashed Chowdhury in the United States while the Interpol had issued a red alert for the fugitives as part of efforts to track them down.

    In a comment to the Canadian TV network years ago, Nur, however, said that he was not at the carnage scene at the time when Sheikh Mujib was killed along with most of his family members. ‘That’s not true, I wasn’t there. I was nowhere near that place,’ he told in an audio comment to the TV, visibly evading his personal visual appearance on the TV screen.

    Kelly, who made the documentary talked to the key-people relating to the Mujib Murder Trial, and all of them binned Nur’s claim with Sheikh Mujib’s daughter and incumbent prime minister Sheikh Hasina calling it an ‘absolute lie’.

    Current Law Minister Anisul Huq who was a key prosecution lawyer in the trial alongside his lawyer father Serajul Huq, chief police investigator of the case Abdul Kahhar Akand and the current CID chief who preserved the case documents also rejected Nur’s denial.

    They said most of his co-accused who faced the trial in person described Nur’s role during the investigation process.

    The documentary focused mainly on Nur’s extradition issue and unearthed that in 2002 the Canadian Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) had ruled he was a ‘fugitive from justice’ and his alibi was ‘simply implausible’.

    The then Canadian minister for public safety Stockwell Day appeared in the documentary and said he had reviewed Nur’s file and strongly felt ‘he shouldn’t be here (in Canada)’ and then his office went to the Canadian court supporting the IRB decision to send him back to Bangladesh.

    According to the legal procedure a decision was made that Nur must go back home.

    ‘But (Nur) Chowdhury had a last lifeline. Five years earlier the Supreme Court ruled it was violation of charter of rights to deport any from Canada who faced death or torture back home,’ the documentary presenter commented.

    He said Nur took the advantage of the ruling saying that would exactly happen to him if he was deported, prompting Bangladesh to go to Canadian federal court to know his legal status while the court ‘ordered Canada to rethink its position’.

    Canadian government then informed Bangladesh that while ‘there may be benefits in disclosing information regarding Nur Chowdhury, those benefits do not take precedence over Canada’s stance regarding death penalty’.

    ‘(But) there is one important loophole to that stance. The Supreme Court ruled people could be sent to their deaths under exception circumstances,’ the presenter commented reviewing the ruling.

    Kelly interviewed a senior law professor of Dalhousie University Robn Currie, a specialist on international criminal law, who said ‘in this area of law, it’s probably the most mysterious phrase that there is’.

    Currie said when the court first formulated the phrase, ‘some people called it the bin Laden clause, meaning if someone like Osama bin Laden were to show up in Canada, we would overcome our aversion to the death penalty and say in the greater interest of justice, this person should be extradited or deported’.

    The law professor said he thought the Canada was in an uncomfortable position with Nur being in Canada.

    The presenter posed a question for the audience if taking part ‘in the assassination of a world leader and 21 members of his household including a 10-year-old boy’ (Sheikh Mujib’s son Sheikh Russell) were an ‘exceptional circumstances’ and added ‘it’s a clause that has never been tested before’.

    Bangladesh High Commissioner to Canada Khalilur Rahman told the presenter that Dhaka wanted Canadian authority to take the case before their Supreme Court and ‘if your Supreme Court says that no, he cannot be deported, we will accept. And then we can take the other options’.

    Asked why Bangladesh was not taking the other options now, a visibly frustrated envoy said ‘they (Canadian authority) are not talking’.

    ‘We need to talk, we need dialogue,’ Rahman said.

    Currie, the law professor, called the silence of the Canadian authority ‘the missing piece’.

    Going back to Canada’s former public safety minister, the presenter sought his opinion if Canada was harbouring an assassin or standing up for human rights.

    In reply Stockwell Day said Canada would be standing on a ‘moral high ground’ by saying ‘He (Nur) is accountable for what he has done and we should negotiate with Bangladesh to see how we can get him out of here and put him back in the hands of people of Bangladesh’.

    The documentary then showed Nur working in the garden on the balcony of what appeared to be his apartment when the presenter commented ‘far from the diplomatic crossfire, Nur Chowdhury carries on his quiet life’.

    Kelly and his TV crew then visibly awaited Nur to descend and get on his white SUV car to be approached with his question, which he evaded, speeding away.

    The presenter is then seen at the Dhaka residence of Huq, who previously stood as a lawyer for prosecuting Nur in absentia for the murder of Bangladesh’s Father of the Nation and now fighting for his extradition as the law minister.

    Kelly asked him if he believed Nur had got away with murder and after a momentary pause, the reply came with a smile on Huq’s face.

    ‘So far . . . yes. So far yes, but we will see to the end,’ Huq said.

    https://www.newagebd.net/article/218...de-canadian-tv


    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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