The first war crimes tribunal of Bangladesh has ordered to commence trial of Faridpur’s Nagarkanda Mayor and BNP leader Zahid Hossain alias Khokon Razakar in absentia.
Published : 14 Aug 2013, 03:51 PM
Justice ATM Fazle Kabir-led International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Wednesday fixed Sep 4 for framing charges.
The tribunal had earlier taken cognisance of charges against Khokan and issued an arrest warrant.
Prosecutor Mokhlesur Rahman Badal had said 11 charges, including murder, genocide, arson, rape, loot and forcible religious conversion, have been levelled against the accused.
The BNP leader has gone into hiding since the war crimes investigators started their probe.
“Zahid Hossain alias Khokon Razakar is a self-proclaimed collaborator of the Pakistan army who had said, ‘I was a Razakar, still am, and want to die as a Razakar,’” Badal had said.