WAR CRIME TRIAL: Witness disclosing embarrassing facts
It comes as a surprise that the complaint of the high profile case
against Jamaat-e-Islami leader Maulana Delwar Hossain Sayeedi before
the war crime tribunal is a convicted thief. He was accused of and
then sentenced to imprisonment in a robbery case for breaking into the
house of a member of the Hindu community in his neighbourhood in the
Najirpur upazila of Pirojpur district along with some others.
The man Mahbubul Alam Hawlader who filed the case in 2009 after 38
years of the liberation war on charge of crime against humanity is
also now on bail in yet another case by his first wife on charges of
violence against woman and demand for dowry.
During the questioning by the defence lawyers in the tribunal, the
complaint said he was a freedom fighter and had worked as the chief
intelligence gathering agent for the freedom fighters in the district
at that time. But the questioning revealed that he was only a 12 year
minor at that time raising the question whether his claims were
credible at all. How a minor boy could discharge such risky duty to
cover military operations and gather secret information? More
interestingly, he has failed to name the place or the camp where he
was trained as an intelligence gathering agent.
Further disclosures in the court showed when the present Awami League
government came to power local party supporters submitted written
objections to the incumbent MP Abdul Awal against Hawlader's inclusion
on the list of freedom fighters. The Lawmaker had then stopped his
allowances which he was receiving as a freedom fighter on verbal
instructions to the concerned authorities. This prompted the defence
lawyers to question whether under the circumstances he struck a deal
with the administration by agreeing to file the case against Maulana
Sayeedi as a war crime accused in return of his government allowances.
Hawlader however turned down the suggestion as not true.
However, during the questioning it was revealed that complaint was a
poor person living from hand to mouth. He managed to enlist his name
as a freedom fighter during the last BNP government when Maulana
Sayeedi was the local lawmaker.
Sayeedi had also twice recommended his petitions to the district
deputy commissioner – once for financial assistance and subsequently
to help him out to get some CI sheets to make roof of his house.
On questioning how he could turn against the man who has helped him so
much, he said he did not personally approach him for those
recommendations. Local Freedom Fighters Command secured the
recommendations and Sayedi did his job as the local MP.
He had no credible answer on a question as to why he did not file the
case against Sayeedi until last year.It is interesting to note that
the prosecutions had opposed the disclosure of the contents of the
petitions of Hawlader to district deputy commissioner in which he
described himself as a poor man to justify his prayer for help.
Earlier they had also raised objections on dealing with his personal
profile.
The court however allowed the defence to continue these questioning
despite objection from the prosecution however saying that any
irrelevant sections will be expunged formal the records.
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