WAR CRIMES TRIAL: Qaisar verdict Tuesday

The International Crimes Tribunal-2 on Monday said it would deliver judgement of the war crimes case against former Jatiya Party state minister Syed Md Qaisar on Tuesday.‘Judgment tomorrow,’ said the presiding judge, Justice Obaidul Hassan.The tribunal had concluded the hearing of arguments from both the sides on August 20 and wished to deliver the verdict at a later date.Qaisar, 73, is in jail.He faced the trial on 16 counts of crimes against humanity committed from April 27, 1971 to November 15, 1971 in Habiganj and Brahmanbaria.

The charges against Qaisar include genocide, murders, extermination, enslavement, deportation, abduction and torture in confinement, rape, other inhuman acts and playing superior responsibility while committing crimes against humanity in 1971.He was indicted on February 2 and that a formal trial against him began on March 4.
A total of 32 prosecution witnesses were examined in the case. None defended him.Qaisar hailed from village of Itakhola under Madhabpur upazila in Habiganj.
He fled to London sometime between November 15 and December 16 in 1971, sensing immediate defeat and returned to Bangladesh in 1978, according to the prosecution.

 

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