Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Archive | Photograph Credit score: PTI
Bangladesh’s Worldwide Crimes Tribunal (ICT) on Sunday (October 27, 2024) summoned 20 individuals, together with former military chief Ziaul Ahsan, 10 former ministers and two advisers to deposed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, to look. earlier than him subsequent month in relation to alleged crimes in opposition to humanity and genocide throughout the nation’s July-August rebellion.
In line with Bangladesh’s interim authorities, not less than 753 individuals have been killed and 1000’s injured throughout the rebellion, which the ICT prosecution crew and the interim authorities known as crimes in opposition to humanity and genocide. Greater than 60 complaints of crimes in opposition to humanity and genocide have to this point been lodged in opposition to Ms Hasina and her get together leaders with the ICT investigation company and the prosecution crew.
On November 18, the ICT ordered the authorities involved to provide earlier than it 20 individuals, together with 10 former ministers and two advisors of former Prime Minister Hasina, The Every day Star newspaper reported.
The order was issued by a three-member ICT court docket headed by its president Justice Md. Golam Mortuza Majumder, following a request by Chief Prosecutor Md. Tajul Islam.
The listing of accused consists of former ministers Faruq Khan, Rashed Khan Menon, Hasanul Haq Inu, Zunaid Ahmed Palak, Abdur Razzaque, Shahjahan Khan, Kamal Ahmed Majumder and Golam Dastagir Gazi. Additionally named are Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s former advisers Tawfiq-e-Elahi and Salman F. Rahman, former military chief Ahsan, former choose Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik and former residence secretary Jahangir Alam, the Dhaka newspaper reported. Tribune.
On October 17, the court docket issued arrest warrants for Hasina and 45 others, together with her son Sajeeb Wazed Pleasure and a number of other of her former cupboard members.
The ICT was shaped by the Hasina-led Awami League authorities in March 2010 to strive the perpetrators of crimes in opposition to humanity dedicated throughout the 1971 Liberation Battle. It later shaped ICT-2, and not less than six Jamaat- e-Islami and leaders of Hasina’s arch-rival BNP get together Khaleeda Zia have been executed following the rulings of the 2 courts. The court docket has been dormant since mid-June after its president retired.
The interim authorities headed by Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus reconstituted the court docket on October 12.
Nobel laureate Yunus, 84, turned a senior adviser to Bangladesh’s interim authorities on August 8 after Prime Minister Hasina fled to India on August 5 amid mass protests led by college students.
Printed – October 27, 2024 06:56 pm IST