A case has been filed in the International Criminal Tribunal (ICT) against former Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina and others for committing genocide and crimes against humanity. It has been alleged that Sheikh Hasina’s government committed genocide and crimes against humanity during the students’ movement.
An agency official said that this complaint has been filed by the father of one of the students whose son was killed by police bullets during the protest. A Supreme Court lawyer has filed a case on behalf of Bulbul Kabir, father of Arif Ahmed Siam, a class 9 student who was killed by police bullets during the protest on August 5.
The agency’s deputy director Ataur Rahman told The Daily Star newspaper that we have registered the complaint and thus the investigation into the case has begun. He said that after the investigation is completed, we will submit the report to the tribunal’s chief prosecutor’s office for further proceedings.
The complaint accuses Sheikh Hasina and several others of genocide and crimes against humanity, state news agency BSS reported. The complaint came on a day when the interim government said the killings between July 1 and August 5 would be tried by the International Crimes Tribunal.
The official said that the complaint accuses Sheikh Hasina and people of carrying out mass killings between July 15 and August 5, students and others killed during this period will also come under the purview of the complaint. As per procedure, the agency has to investigate the complaints and file a case before the ICT.
The complaint names several senior police officials, including Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League general secretary and former road transport minister Obaidul Quader, former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, former information and broadcasting minister Mohammad Ali Arafat, former ICT affairs minister Junaid Ahmed Palak and sacked police chief Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun.
The state-run BSS news agency quoted legal adviser Dr Asif Najrul as saying that the interim government has prepared to investigate these incidents under the supervision of the United Nations. The killings committed in the period between July 1 and August 5 will be tried by the International Crimes Tribunal.
Source (PTI) (NDTV) (HINDUSTANTIMES)