Motiur Rahman Nizami, ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami, incited Razakars as well as Pakistan army personnel to kill people during the Liberation War, prosecution witness no. 22 Shahjahan Ali Sukkur said on Thursday. Giving his deposition at the International Crimes Tribunal-1 (ICT-1), Sukkur said Razakars had picked up his cousin, Abdus Selim Latif, and Alauddin from the Bera Launch Ghat (in Pabna) in early August 1971.
“Razakars handed them over to the Pakistani army on Nizami’s directive. The Pakistani army severely tortured them, burning their chests and backs with cigarettes, and thereafter threw them into the Jamuna river, after tying their hands and legs,” he added. “Razakars also took my uncle Sohrab Ali away from our house on December 3, 1971, and shot him four or five times. I saw it from a nearby thicket,” he said.
After the death of Sohrab Ali, Razakars moved to the Hindu locality on receiving a signal from Nizami, the
witness added.
-With The Independent input
