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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| Delowar Hossain Sayeedi sentenced to Death |
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.
Charge-6:
On May 7, 1971, Sayedee
identified the houses and shops of Bangalees belonging to the Awami League,
Hindu community and supporters of the Liberation War at Parerhat Bazar under
Pirojpur Sadar. Sayedee as one of the perpetrators raided those shops and houses
and looted valuables, including 22 seers of gold and silver from the shop of
one Makhanlal Saha.
Held: Guilty/ Sentenced
Charge-7:
On May 8, 1971, Sayedee led a team of
the Pakistan army to the house of Nurul Islam Khan, where he identified Nurul
Islam as an Awami League leader and his son Shahidul Islam Selim as a
freedom-fighter to the army. Sayedee then detained Nurul Islam and handed him
to the army, which tortured Nurul Islam. His house was then looted and finally
set on fire.
Held: Guilty/ Sentenced
Charge-8:
On May 8, 1971, Sayedee and his
accomplices accompanied by the Pakistan army raided the house of one Manik
Posari at Chitholia under Pirojpur Sadar and caught his brother Mofizuddin and
one Ibrahim. Sayedee's accomplices then burnt five houses there. On the way to
the Pakistani army's camp, Sayedee instigated the members of the occupation
force to kill Ibrahim by gunshot and dump his body near a bridge. On the other
hand, Mofiz was taken to the army camp and tortured. Sayedee directly
participated in the abduction, murder and persecution of the victims.
Held: Guilty/
Sentenced to Death (Capital Punishment).
Charge-9:
On June 2, 1971, armed associates of
Sayedee under his leadership and accompanied by the Pakistani army raided the
house of one Abdul Halim Babul at Nolbunia under Indurkani Police Station and
looted valuables from Halim's house. The team then reduced the house to ashes.
Held: Not
Guilty/ Acquitted
Charge-10:
On June 2, 1971, Sayedee's armed
associates under his leadership and accompanied by the Pakistan army burnt 25
houses of a Hindu Para in Umedpur village under Indurkani Police Station. At
one stage, a victim, Bisabali, was tied to a coconut tree and was shot dead by
Sayedee's accomplice.
Held: Guilty/
Sentenced to Death (Capital Punishment).
Charge-11:
On June 2, 1971, Sayedee led a team of
Peace (Shanti) Committee members, accompanied by the Pakistani army, to raid
the house of Mahbubul Alam Howlader (freedom-fighter) of Tengra Khali village
under Indurkani Police Station. Sayedee and the team then detained Mahbubul's
elder brother Abdul Mazid Howlader and tortured
him, and looted cash money, jewellery and other valuables from the
house.
Held: Guilty/ Sentenced
Charge-12:
One day a group comprising 15-20 armed
accomplices of Sayedee under his leadership entered the Hindu Para of Parerhat
Bazar under Pirojpur Sadar and captured 14 Hindus, who were all supporters of
Bangladesh's independence. The fourteen were then tied with a single rope and
dragged to Pirojpur and handed over to Pakistani soldiers, who killed them.
Their bodies were thrown into the river.
Held: Not
Guilty/ Acquitted
Charge-13:
One night, about 2 to 3 months after the
war commenced, some members of Peace Committee under Sayedee's leadership
accompanied by the Pakistan army raided the house of Azhar Ali of Nalbunia
village under Pirojpur Sadar Police Station. They then caught and tortured
Azahar Ali and his son Shaheb Ali. The team then abducted Shaheb Ali and
ultimately he was taken to Pirojpur and killed.
Held: Not
Guilty/ Acquitted
Charge-14:
During the final stages of the war,
Sayedee one morning led a team of Razakar Bahini consisting of 50 to 60
Razakars, into attacking the Hindu Para of Hoglabunia under Pirojpur Sadar.
Seeing the attackers, the Hindus managed to flee but one Shefali Gharami failed
to do that. Some members of Razakar Bahini entered her room and raped her. Being
the leader of the team, Sayedee did not prevent them from committing rape upon her.
Sayedee and the members of his team also set fire to the dwelling houses of the
Hindu Para.
Held: Guilty/ Sentenced
Charge-15:
During the last part of the war, Sayedee
led 15 to 20 armed Razakars who entered the Hoglabunia village under Pirojpur
Sadar Police Station and caught 10 members of the Hindu faith. The attackers
then tied all the members of Hindu community with a single rope, dragged them
to Pirojpur and handed them over to the Pakistani army. They were all killed
and their bodies were dumped into the river.
Held: Not
Guilty/ Acquitted
Charge-16:
In the course of the Liberation War,
Sayedee led a group of 10-12 armed Razakars and Peace Committee members, which
surrounded the house of Gouranga Saha of Parerhat Bandar under Pirojpur Sadar.
Subsequently, Sayedee and the others abducted three women and handed them over
to the Pakistan army at Pirojpur where they were confined and raped for three
days before being released.
Held: Guilty/ Sentenced
Charge-17:
During the Liberation War, Sayedee along
with other armed Razakars kept Bipod Saha's daughter Vanu Saha confined to
Bipod Saha's house at Parerhat under Pirojpur Sadar Police Station and
regularly used to go there to rape her.
Held: Not
Guilty/ Acquitted
Charge-18:
During the Liberation War, one
Bhagirothi used to work in the camp of the Pakistan army. One day, after a
fight with the freedom fighters, and at the instance of Sayedee, Bhagirothi was
charged with passing information to the freedom fighters and killed.
Held: Not
Guilty/ Acquitted
Charge-19:
During the war, Sayedee, being a member
of Razakar Bahini and exercising his influence over the Hindu community of
Pirojpur, converted 100-150 Hindus of Parerhat and other villages and compelled
them to go to the mosque to offer prayers.
Held: Guilty/ Sentenced
Charge-20:
On a day at the end of November 1971,
Sayedee got information that thousands of people were fleeing to India in order
to save their lives. A group of 10-12 armed members of the Razakar Bahini,
under Sayedee's leadership, then attacked the houses of Talukdar Bari at
Indurkani village and detained a total of 85 persons and looted goods from
there. Of them, all but 10-12 persons were released in exchange for bribes negotiated
by Fazlul Huq, a member of the Razakar Bahini. Male persons were tortured and
female persons were raped by Pakistan soldiers deployed in the camp.
Held: Not
Guilty/ Acquitted.
Scores of Bihari children,women and old and innocents were killed in Bhairab,Akura,Mymensingh,sylhet so on and so forth.What was their crime.Please tell me.Who killed them and under whose orders.This should also be decided as my own family suffered.Please someone reply.
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