Dhaka : A complaint was filed on Wednesday with the disquisition agency of Bangladesh’s International Crime Tribunal against deposed high minister Sheikh Hasina and several others, criminating them of committing crimes against humanity during the recent mass movement of the scholars against her government.
“ The complaint was filed by the father of one of the scholars who failed in police shots during the massive road demurrers, ” an functionary of the agency said.
A Supreme Court counsel filed the case on behalf of Bulbul Kabir, father of taken Arif Ahmed Siyam, a class 9 pupil who was shot dead by police during the kick on August 5.
“ We've registered the complaint and therefore the disquisition of the case has started, ” Ataur Rahman, deputy director of the agency, was quoted as saying by The Daily Star review.
The complaint comes on a day when the interim government said that the murders conducted within the period from July 1 to August 5 will be tried by the International Crimes Tribunal. The complaint indicted 76- time-old Hasina and the others of negotiating the mass killings between July 15 and August 5, the day when Hasina abnegated and fled the country, while the scholars and others who failed during the period would come under the horizon of the complaint as well, the functionary said.
In line with the procedure, the agency would need to probe the complaints and also file a case before the ICT- BD, firstly constituted to try the Bengali- speaking perpetrators of 1971 Liberation Wartime crimes siding with the Pakistani colors. Others named in the complaint included the general clerk of Hasina’s Awami League and former road transport minister Obaidul Quader, former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal,ex-junior minister for information and broadcasting Mohammad Ali Arafat,ex-junior minister for ICT affairs Zunaid Ahmed Palak and several elderly police officers including sacked police principal Chowdhury Abdullah al Mamun. Over 230 people failed in Bangladesh in the incidents of violence that erupted across the country following the fall of the Hasina government on August 5, taking the death risk to 560 during the three weeks of violence, which began from a scholars’ movement against a controversial share system in jobs. “ The interim government has made medications to probe these incidents under the supervision of the United Nations. The murders conducted within the period from July 1 to August 5 will be tried by the International Crimes Tribunal, ” Law Adviser Dr Asif Nazrul was quoted as saying by the state- run BSS news agency. “ We looked into the incidents of arbitrary blasting and killings to find the fact whether there's the compass to make it as a crime against humanity. We're working to try the July- August butcheries under the International Criminal Tribunal Act 1973,( amended in 2009, and 2013). Under this Act, all those involved in the killings, those who ordered them and those supported them in colorful ways, can be brought to justice, ” Nazrul said. Stating that an disquisition platoon will work under the full supervision of the United Nations to insure complete translucency and equity, he said. “ None of the gregarious government involved in the murder will be exempted, ” he said. “ The killings which took place to constrain the movement of the pupil- people movement will be held at the transnational crimes bench, ” he told journalists at a press conference then. He also said that the cases that are false and were filed to kill people during the movement will be withdrawn by Thursday, and other remaining cases will be withdrawn by August 31.