Policemen
bring Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdul Quader Mollah out of International
Crimes Tribunal-2 in the capital on Thursday.
War
crimes accused Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdul Quader Mollah claimed on
Thursday that he had taken training as freedom fighter at his village
home Faridpur in 1971. The Jamaat assistant secretary general made the comment when he was testifying before the International Crimes Tribunal-2.
Mollah, who was a Dhaka University student in 1971, received the training under a retired joint commission officer (JCO) that time, he said.
He went to Faridpur in March of 1971 after one of his examinations was postponed following the historic March 7 speech of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the Jamaat leader said.
In Faridpur, he used to give private tuition to two daughters of a local pir (spiritual leader) and sit at his (pir) shop, he told the court.
But on March 23, 1971, a JCO, most probably his name was Mofizur Rahman, called Mollah and some college and university students and said that he would train up them as freedom fighters, he said.
"The ongoing unrest will not be resolved politically. So, we will have to take initiatives," Mollah quoted as the JCO saying.
Later, they received training with dummy rifles, the Jamaat leader said.
"Our training remained suspended for a few days after Pakistani army reached Faridpur on April 30 or May 1 (in 1971)," he said.
The training restarted but was halted permanently after few days, he added.
The ICT-2, which was recording Mollah's statement as the first defence, went on a two-hour break around 12:10pm as Mollah was feeling unwell.
The tribunal on May 28 framed six charges of crimes against humanity against the Jamaat leader.
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