Jamaat calls hartal for tomorrow

 

Abdul Quader Mollah

Jamaat-e-Islami has called a countrywide dawn-to-dusk hartal for Tuesday protesting the upcoming verdict of its leader Abdul Quader Mollah in a war crimes case.
It also threatened to enforce a non-stop hartal if the verdict due Tuesday goes against the assistant secretary general of the party.
Jamaat in a press release announced the programme Monday afternoon hours after the International Crimes Tribunal fixed Tuesday for delivering the verdict.

The Jamaat assistant secretary general was indicted on May 28 last year with six specific charges for his alleged involvement in murders and mass killings during the Liberation War in 1971.
It will be the second verdict of the International Crimes Tribunals.The same tribunal delivered its maiden verdict against expelled Jamaat leader Abul Kalam Azad also known as Bachchu Razakar on January 21.
Mollah, 65, is one of nine Jamaat and BNP leaders facing crimes against humanity charges at the two tribunals formed to try war crimes cases.
The following are the crimes against humanity charges framed against Mollah:
On April 5, 1971, on Mollah's instructions, one of his aides named Akhter killed Pallab, a student of Bangla College and an organiser of the Liberation War.
On March 27, 1971, Mollah and his aides murdered pro-liberation poet Meherun Nesa, her mother and two brothers at their home at Mirpur-6 of Dhaka.
On March 29, 1971, Mollah, accompanied by Al-Badr, Razakars and non-Bangla speaking Bihari men, apprehended journalist Khondoker Abu Taleb and brought him to a place known as Mirpur Jallad Khana Pump House and slit his throat.
On November 25, 1971, an organised attack and indiscriminate shooting by Mollah and his cohorts killed hundreds of unarmed people of Khanbari and Ghatar Char villages in Keraniganj.
On April 24, 1971, Mollah led Pakistan army men and around 50 non-Bangla speaking Biharis into an attack on unarmed people of Alubdi village in Mirpur that left 344 people killed.
On the evening of March 26, 1971, under the leadership of Mollah, some Biharis and Pakistani soldiers killed one Hazrat Ali and five members of his family in Mirpur.