[Bangla Daily Star] An assistant to a trucker, jugged Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! in connection with the Ramu violence, told a magistrate in Chittagong yesterday that five people had forced him to drive a mob to Ramu on September 29.
A team of Cox's Bazar police jugged Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! helper-turned-driver Ramzan Ali of south Rajarkul in Ramu at Sitakunda in Chittagong Friday.
Police produced him before the court of Senior Judicial Magistrate Towhidul Haque yesterday.
In his statement, Ramzan told the court that while he was staying with the truck at a bus terminal in Cox's Bazar on September 29, Rafiq, Harun, Amin, Alam and Ramzan forced him to take them to Ramu around 11:00pm, said Zaker Hossain, an inspector of the Detective Branch of Cox's Bazar Police.
Zaker said in his statement Ramzan said the five picked up people from different areas and boarded them on the truck to go to Ramu.
A mob destroyed 12 pagodas and more than 50 houses in Ramu on the night of September 29. The violence was apparently triggered by a Facebook posting of a photo derogatory to the holy Koran.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina ...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since 1981. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangladesh. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide... goes to Ramu today and will hand over relief to the victims. She will also hold meetings with high officials, politicians and eminent citizens of the district.
Meanwhile, ...back at the cheese factory, all the pieces finally fell together in Fluffy's mind... protest and condemnation continued to pour in with expatriate Bangladeshis demanding judicial and administrative enquiries into the incident and urging highest punishment to the culprits through trial.
In a statement they said a heinous conspiracy and a hand of the anti-liberation forces were behind the attack.
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We used to have this sort of thing happen all the time when I worked for Triple A Cooper (blessed be their brakes). Usually they were forced to go to, yeah, Dothan, because of hours and such.
[Bangla Daily Star] International Crimes Tribunal-2 yesterday decided to hold the trial of war crimes accused Abul Kalam Azad "in absentia" for his alleged involvement in crimes against humanity committed during the Liberation War.
The three-member tribunal headed by Justice ATM Fazle Kabir took the decision as expelled Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... member Azad, also known as Bachchu Razakar, did not appear before it even after publication of newspaper advertisements to this effect.
This is the first time that one of the war crimes tribunals has decided to hold a trial in the absence of an accused since the formation of the International Crimes Tribunal on March 25, 2010. The trial of eight other war crimes suspects is now pending with the two tribunals.
On September 23, the tribunal directed the authorities concerned to publish an advert in two national dailies asking Azad to appear before it within 10 days of the publication.
Sahidur Rahman, the conducting prosecutor of the case, yesterday told the tribunal the advertisements were published accordingly in two national dailies -- The Daily Star and Bangla daily Janakantha -- on September 25.
Afterwards, the tribunal in its order said it appeared that in spite of the publication of a notice in newspapers, the accused had remained absconding and could not be tossed in the slammer Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! and there was no immediate prospect of arresting him.
As per the act and rules of procedure of the tribunal, the trial of the accused would commence and be held "in absentia," said the tribunal chairman.
Azad, also a former leader of Islami Chhatra Sangha, the then student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami in Faridpur, went into hiding around seven hours before Tribunal-2 issued an arrest warrant against him on April 3.
The tribunal yesterday also appointed Supreme Court lawyer Abdus Sukur Khan as "state defence" for defending Azad in the case and directed the chief prosecutor to supply formal charges and other documents to the state defence through the registrar of the tribunal by October 11.
The tribunal will pass a "further order" in this regard on the day.
On September 9, the tribunal took into cognisance formal charges filed against Azad and issued an arrest warrant for the second time.
As the law enforcers could not arrest Azad within September 23, the advertisements were published as per the tribunal's directive.
On July 26, the investigation agency completed its enquiry and found Azad's involvement in the killing of at least 14 people and two acts of genocide in Faridpur during the War.
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...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since 1981. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangladesh. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide...
International Crimes Tribunal-2 yesterday decided to hold the trial of war crimes accused Abul Kalam Azad "in absentia" for his alleged involvement in crimes against humanity committed during the Liberation War.
