FF testifies against war crimes accused Jabbar

A freedom fighter prosecution witness (PW) recounted on Sunday before the International Crimes Tribunal-1 a horrific tale of how he and seven other captives had escaped death after Razakars shot at them on a canal bank in village Suryamoni of Pirojpur during the Liberation War, reports UNB.
"On October 6 in 1971, a group of Razakars at the behest of accused Engineer A Jabbar perpetrated the atrocities in which I lost my father and some close relatives," recalled Shontosh Kumar Mitra with tearful eyes while making deposition as PW-6.  
Hailing from village Angulkata in Mathbaria thana, Shontosh told the tribunal that earlier the perpetrators had stormed their house and plundered cash money, gold ornaments and valuables.  
"Having eight separate families, we used to live together and the perpetrators had carried out looting in all the houses and captured all the 18 male members of our family," he said.  The PW said that besides the 18 taken captive from our family, the perpetrators took 19 others as captive along the way.
They had tied the hands of all the 37 captives around their back and dumped them in front of the Mathbaria community centre, now Municipal office.  
At that time, he said, a Razakar commander asked one of his associates to separate seven people from the lot, he added.  The task over, thirty captured people were brought to the bank of a canal at village Suryamoni, said Shontosh.
"Then the Razakars started gunning the captured people down one after another and the victims, including myself fell screaming into the canal." "Two bullets pierced my body-one under the right chest and the other on the back," he said in an emotion choked voice.  And then the PW bared his chest and back to show the tribunal the deep bullet injury marks he still carries.