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Jatiya Party MP MA Hannan faces war crimes charges
Jatiya Party Presidium Member MA Hannan, an MP from Mymensingh, has been charged for war crimes.
Published : 19 May 2015, 08:39 PM
Updated : 19 May 2015, 08:39 PM
Rahima Khatun, the wife of martyred freedom fighter Abdur Rahman of Trishal, filed the case against Hannan and two others with a district court on Tuesday.
Mymensingh Amali Court-1 took cognisance of the case and forwarded it to the International Crimes Tribunal.
The two others accused in the case are Fakhruzzaman and Golam Rabbani.
Plaintiff’s lawyer Piyush Kanti Sarker said Hannan was Mymensigh district unit chief of Peace Committee, formed during the Liberation War to collaborate with the Pakistani occupation.
He and his associates from Razakar, a militia force loyal to the Pakistani army, picked up Abdur Rahman, a commander of a unit of freedom fighters, from Gouripur on Aug 9, 1971, the lawyer said.
They killed him after gouging out his eyes and breaking his right arm at a torture cell at the Agricultural University, he added
Former Jatiya Party MP Abdul Jabbar and Syed Md Kaiser had been sentenced to life in prison for war crimes.
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