FF witness testifies to facts of Hachen\\\'s war crimes

A freedom fighter (FF) prosecution witness (PW), who liberated Tarail thana area of Kishoreganj on December 14, 1971 with his comrades-in-arms in a two-day heavy gunfight, Monday testified to the facts of crimes allegedly perpetrated by Syed Hachen Ali alias Hasan, now on the run, reports UNB.
"I seek justice as Razakar Hachen had committed the crimes against humanity during the Liberation War, killing unarmed people, plundering and burning down houses of the freedom-loving people in villages around Tarail of Kishoreganj," said Nurul Huq alias Lal Miah, now, 66, while giving deposition to the International Crimes Tribunal-1 (ICT-1) as PW-5.
The PW said, "On April 27 in 1971, a group of Razakars led by Hachen stormed into our house located near Tarail thana and ransacked the house followed by torching that also engulfed a neighbour's house."
Lal Miah told the tribunal that Pakistan occupation forces in association with its collaborator Razakar militia had set up makeshift army camps at Tarail Dak Bungalow and local high school while a Razakar camp at Tarail thana on April 23, 1971.
As the PW, during his deposition he was providing information of a series of killing with events that had happened on different dates and at various places during wartime blaming the accused without any reference and sources, the tribunal interrupted and asked case-conducting prosecutor Mohammad Ali about its evidential value, terming those 'political speeches'.