The three-judge tribunal unanimously pronounced the verdict finding
him guilty of murder and other serious crimes in a packed courtroom at
the High Court premises in presence of Molla, who wore a gloomy look.
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Abdul Kader Mollah
Abdul
Kader Molla was known as a "butcher Kader" to the Bengalis in Mirpur
area during 1971. Mirpur at the time was mainly populated by Bihar people (non Bengali) Muslim migrants from India, who were
among the most ardent supporters of the Pakistani occupation of Bangladesh.
One of the
largest mass graves of people butchered by Pakistani troops and their associates
was exposed in the Shialbari region of Mirpur after independence. According to
the locals of Mirpur area Molla was involved to the killing of thousands of
Bengalis in Shialbari and Rupnagar areas of Mirpur during the war. Many of them
established that Molla began his killing spree even before the army had begun
its function.
On March 6, a
public meeting was arranged in front of the gate of Ceramic Industry at Section
6 in Mirpur, to press for demands of the Bengali people. As the people raised
the nationalist slogan Joy Bangla (Victory to Bengal), narrated M Shahidur
Rahman who was present at the meeting, Kader Molla and his gang attacked the
meeting with swords, machetes and other sharp weapons, injuring many.
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As per M Firoze
Ali, an inhabitant of Block B at Section I in Mirpur, Kader Mollah was behind
the murder of his brother Pallab Tuntuni, an 18-year old learner. Young Tuntuni
was a dynamic supporter of the supporter of independence leader Sheikh Mujibur
Rahman and that was why his name was penciled into Molla's hit list. On March
29, Molla's hit men kidnapped Tuntuni from another part of the city and took
him to Mirpur.
The boy was then dragged from one part of Mirpur to another, and back again, with his hands tied behind his back. At a big play ground used usually for major religious congregations, Tuntuni was tied to a tree and left for two days. Later, Molla's men returned and chopped off the boy's fingers. On April 5, a week after being kidnapped, Molla ordered his men to shoot Tuntuni dead. The boy's dead body was left dangling from the tree for another two days as a warning to others in the area, before being thrown in a mass grave with seven other bodies, Feroze Ali said.
The boy was then dragged from one part of Mirpur to another, and back again, with his hands tied behind his back. At a big play ground used usually for major religious congregations, Tuntuni was tied to a tree and left for two days. Later, Molla's men returned and chopped off the boy's fingers. On April 5, a week after being kidnapped, Molla ordered his men to shoot Tuntuni dead. The boy's dead body was left dangling from the tree for another two days as a warning to others in the area, before being thrown in a mass grave with seven other bodies, Feroze Ali said.
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Gano jagoron mancho |
There are also allegations from the inhabitants'
of Mirpur area that Molla organized local non-Bengali people of Manipur,
Sheorapara, Kazipara areas of Mirpur into armed groups under his own command.
With those (Behari) armed bands, Molla organized killings of thousands of
Bengalis at various killing fields of Mirpur.
When it was happens I do not know as I was not in the earth, I have learnt all this fro m different Articles and blogs especially fro m the Bolger Swadhin.
Now this man is on way to hang.
What do you think?
All the freedom fighter wants him to hang but Anti people of
freedom fight tell that is not a real judgment.
It may Hang Kader soon |
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New generation want to know the real fact.
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Molla sentenced to life in jail
5 February 2013
Author: Staff Correspondent
Original Source: Link
2013-02-05Staff Correspondent, bdnews24.com
Molla was indicted for six war crimes charges on May 28 last year including mass murder, conspiracy and instigation in 1971.
This is the second verdict since the Sheikh Hasina government in 2010 initiated the process of trying those who committed crimes against humanity during the Liberation War under an amended 1973 law.
The Jamaat leader was sentenced to life in prison for murder and rape in two cases. He was acquitted of one charge.
The court also sentenced Molla to 15 years in prison for complicity in three charges of murder.
Reading out the part of the 135-page judgment, tribunal Chairman Justice Obaidul Hassan said the lesser sentences would naturally converge ‘with the life sentence’.
All three judges took turns reading out the 35-page summary for about an hour-and-a-half at the end of which Quader Molla stood up with a loud, ‘Allahu Akbar’.
He had appealed to the judge for allowing to speak, but Justice Hassan asked him, “Please take your seat.”
Molla said after the judgement that it was unjust. “They have given a verdict like executioners.”
Molla continued to say that he was innocent and that he was not even in Dhaka during the crimes for which he was being punished.
Junior Law Minister Qamrul Islam, however, said he was ‘frustrated’ with the verdict handing down life sentence to Molla and hinted that the prosecution could appeal against it.
”The verdict did not reflect the expectations of the people, who had expected otherwise. We are frustrated,” he said.
But Law Minister Shafique Ahmed left it to the prosecution to decide.
“There is scope for both sides to appeal against the verdict. If the prosecution thinks they can appeal. It depends on them,” he said.
Ahmed said the government did not look at the verdict from a partisan standpoint.
“The tribunals are working independently,” he said.
Attorney General Mahbubey Alam said they would decide later whether to appeal against the verdict.
Mohammad Ali, the prosecutor handling the case from the beginning, said he was not satisfied with the judgement. “I had expected capital punishment.”
He said for at least two of the charges Molla should have been ‘sentenced to death’.
Reacting immediately to the verdict, defence lawyer Abdur Razzaq said they would appeal against the verdict as the charges of crimes against Molla had not been ‘established’.
“The sentence manifestly is a perverse judgment. We will certainly appeal,” he said.
The first of the charges brought against him was that he had allegedly ordered the shooting of a Mirpur Bangla College student, Pallab, on Apr 5 1971.
The Second charge said the Jamaat leader had killed poet Meherunnisa, her mother and two brothers on Mar 27 at their Mirpur residence.
He had allegedly picked up journalist Khandkar Abu Taleb from Arambagh area and slaughtered him in the Jalladkhana Pump House on Mar 29, according to the third charge.
The fourth charge stated Molla had led a group of Razakars and killed hundreds of unarmed villagers in Keraniganj’s Bhawl Khanbari and Ghatarchar areas. The prosecution could not prove this charge, the verdict said.
The fifth charge alleged that the Jamaat leader went to Alokdi village on Apr 24, along with the Pakistan army and a band of Razakars, and went on a killing spree. Over 344 residents of the village were killed in the massacre.
The last charge alleged Molla of directing a band of men with him to shoot Hazrat Ali Lashkar, slaughter his pregnant wife and youngest daughter, and slam his two-year-old son against the ground and kill him on Mar 26 at their Mirpur Section 12 residence. One of Lashkar’s daughters was also raped.
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Opposition leader and BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia had earlier said the trials were a ‘farce’, but the party on Monday said they did not support its key political partner Jamaat-e-Islami’s demand for repeal of the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT).
The Awami League had promised war crimes trials before the 2008 parliament elections and apparently received overwhelming response from both young and old alike.
The tribunal’s maiden verdict on Jan 21 handed down death sentence to a former Jamaat leader Abul Kalam Azad, popularly known as Bachchu Razakar.
The Jamaat supported the cause of undivided Pakistan and opposed the Bengali struggle for independence. It formed armed support groups like Razakars, Al Badr and Al Shams to back the Pakistani war to thwart the liberation movement. These groups were allegedly responsible for some of the horrendous atrocities during the Liberation War.
Official estimates suggest 3 million people were killed and 200,000 women raped during the nine-month war.
Many have expressed their frustration over a relatively ‘mild verdict’.
‘Butcher’ of Bengalis
The prosecution presented seven charges against Molla on Mar 7 as the
indictment hearing began at ICT-1. The case was later shifted to the
second tribunal on Apr 16 following a prosecution petition.
A case was filed with Keraniganj police on Dec 17, 2007 against a
number of Jamaat leaders including Molla for killing a person named
Mostofa during the Liberation War. Another case was filed against him
with Pallabi police in 2008. He was arrested on July 13, 2010 over the
second case.
The prosecution brought crimes against humanity charges including
murder, rape and arson in its probe report placed at the tribunal on Nov
1, 2011. The court took it into cognisance on Dec 28 the same year.
The prosecution report said that the Jamaat leader operated in Mirpur
and Mohammadpur areas of Dhaka during the Liberation War and started
killing Bengalis from March 25, 1971 midnight. Local Biharis assisted
Molla in his killing and he also took part in the genocide at Mirpur’s
Alokdi village and was named the ‘butcher’ for his atrocities.
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In league with the Urdu-speaking Biharis and other non-Bengalis, he
is said to have unleashed a killing spree even before the crackdown on
Bengalis by Pakistani forces on the night of March 25, 1971, known as
‘Operation Searchlight’.
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