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| Interpol issues Red Notice against war criminal Jabbar |
| 2015-04-17 |
| [Dhaka Tribune] The Interpol has issued a "red notice" for the arrest of war crimes convict Abdul Jabbar. On February 24, the former Jatiya Party ...aka Jatiya Front; a political party established by Bangladictator Lieutenant General Hussain Muhammad Ershad in 1986 to lend a veneer of respectability to his rule. Since nobody was amused he was forced to resign by popular demand in 1990. The party remains in existence with about a dozen seats in Bangla's parliament... politician, now runaway, was sentenced to imprisonment unto death for murders, loot, arson and deportation as crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War. While delivering the verdict against Jabbar, the International Crimes Tribunal ordered the inspector general of police to arrest Jabbar with the help of International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol). Of the eight types of notices of Interpol, the red notice seeks the location and arrest of a person wanted by a judicial jurisdiction or an international tribunal with a view to his/her extradition. Red notice is the "closest instrument to an international arrest warrant in use today." The Interpol list of wanted persons carried Jabbar's picture with details about the war crimes convict. After the independence, he went into hiding and remained runaway until the political changeover of August 15, 1975. Resuming politics, Jabbar was elected politician from Mathbaria in 1986 and 1988 with Jatiya Party ticket. He has been on the run since 2009 after the investigation against him on war crimes charges was launched. The former chairman of the local unit of Peace Committee had played a key role in forming razakar force and led collaborators in committing crimes in Mathbaria during the war. |
| Posted by:Fred |