War Trial: Jabbar verdict tomorrow

File Photo of Abdul Jabbar

A tribunal in Dhaka will deliver its verdict tomorrow in the case against fugitive accused Abdul Jabbar for his alleged crimes against humanity committed during the country’s Liberation War in 1971.
The alleged chairman of Mathbaria Thana unit of Peace Committee, an auxiliary force to the Pakistani occupation army, is facing five charges of crimes against humanity and genocide committed in Pirojpur in May and October of 1971.
The charges include killing 36, forcefully converting 200 Hindus to Islam, looting and torching 500 houses in several villages of the district.
Justice M Enayetur Rahim, chairman of the three-member International Crimes Tribunal-1, fixed tomorrow for delivering the verdict.
The ICT-1 concluded the trial proceedings of Jabbar and kept the case waiting for verdict delivery on December 3.
A total of 24 witnesses have testified against the war crimes accused while none was brought in favour of him by the defence.