The 73 year old Jamaat-e-Islami
nayeb-e-ameer Delowar Hossain Sayeedi was found guilty of murder, abduction,
confinement, torture, rape, persecution and abatement of torture,
looting, forceful religious conversions and setting homes ablaze in rural areas
of southern district of Bangladesh namely, Pirojpur during the Liberation War.[1]
Charge-1:
Killing
of 20 People:
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On May 4, 1971, Delawar
Hossain Sayedee as a member of Peace (Shanti) Committee carried secret
information to the Pakistan army about a gathering of a group of people behind
the Madhya Masimpur bus-stand under Pirojpur Sadar and took the army to the spot.
The army killed 20 unnamed people by firing.
Held: Not
Guilty/ Acquitted
Charge-2:
Killing 13 Hindu People:
On May 4, 1971, Sayedee
along with his accomplices accompanied by the Pakistan army looted belongings
of members of the Hindu community living in Masimpur Hindu Para under Pirojpur
Sadar. They also set the houses of Hindus alight and opened fire on the scared
people, who started fleeing the scene, killing 13 people.
Held: Not
Guilty/ Acquitted
Charge-3:
On May 4, 1971, Sayedee
led a team of the Pakistan army to Masimpur Hindu Para, where the team looted
goods from the houses of two members of the Hindu community -- Monindra Nath
Mistri and Suresh Chandra Mondol -- and destroyed their houses by setting them
on fire. Sayedee also directly took part in the large-scale destruction by setting
fire to the roadside houses of villages Kalibari, Masimpur, Palpara, Sikarpur, Razarhat,
Kukarpara, Dumur Tola, Kalamtola, Nawabpur, Alamkuthi, Dhukigathi, Parerha and
Chinrakhali.
Held: Not
Guilty/ Acquitted
Charge-4:
On May 4, 1971, Sayedee
and his accomplices, accompanied by the Pakistani army looted the houses of
members of the Hindu community and opened fire indiscriminately on them in
front of Dhopa Bari and behind the LGED Building in Pirojpur, leaving four persons
killed.
Held: Not
Guilty/ Acquitted
Charge-5:
Sayedee declared
publicly to arrest Saif Mizanur Rahman, then deputy magistrate of Pirojpur
Sub-division, when the magistrate organised a Sarbo Dalio Sangram Parishad to inspire
people to join the Liberation War. On May 5, 1971, Sayedee along with his associate
Monnaf (now deceased), a member of Peace (Shanti) Committee, accompanied by the
Pakistan army picked up Saif from the hospital where he was hiding and took him
to the bank of the Baleshwar river. On the same date and time, Foyezur Rahman
Ahmed, sub-divisional police officer, and Abdur Razzak (SDO in charge of
Pirojpur), were also arrested from their workplaces and taken to the river
bank. Sayedee as a member of the killer squad was present there and all three
government officials were gunned down. Their bodies were thrown into the river
Baleshwar. Sayedee directly participated and abetted in the acts of abduction
and killing of those three officers.
Held: Not
Guilty/ Acquitted