Azharul facilitated Pak army atrocities in \\\'71: Prosecutor

A panel prosecutor has claimed that the charge of aiding, abetting and facilitating Pakistani occupation forces to carry out wartime offences brought against ATM Azharul Islam has been established beyond any reasonable doubt. Prosecutor Barrister Tapos K Baul came up with the view during summing-up arguments before International Crimes Tribunal-1, referring to the evidence of the prosecution witnesses (PWs), including the members of the martyred family, and judgments of the International Crimes Tribunals abroad. According to the charge, Azharul, then president of Rangpur unit of Islami Chhatra Sangha, had collaborated with Pakistan occupation army in capturing 11 people, including some pro-liberation political party leaders who were later killed, sans one lucky survivour with bullet wounds, at Dakhiganj crematory in the last week of March 1971. Thus, the accused had assisted in implementing the conspiracy of the Pakistan junta to exterminate Bangalee freedom loving people from their motherland, said prosecutor Tapos. Before the heinous crime had been committed, all the captured persons were subjected to inhuman torture while confined in Rangpur Cantonment, he added, according to UNB.