Khokon Razakar in Sweden?

Condemned war crimes convict Zahid Hossain Khokon, known as Khokon Razakar, is currently in Sweden, an expatriate Bangladeshi has said. He said Khokon was living in Swedish capital Stockholm with his elder son and daughter. The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 on Thursday awarded him the capital punishment for crimes against humanity during Bangladesh’s independence struggles in 1971. Though the tribunal has no specific information on Khokon’s whereabouts, a prosecutor said he could be in Sweden. Khokon, Faridpur’s Nagarkanda unit BNP leader and former mayor of Nagarkanda municipality, went into hiding after the probe into his wartime offences began in 2012. The ICT-1 found Khokon guilty of 10 of the 11 charges, including those of murder, genocide, rape and arson, levelled against him. After the law enforcers failed to arrest him, notice was published in newspapers at the court’s behest, asking him to appear before the court. The tribunal completed the trial in absentia as the order had gone unheeded, according to a news agency.