A prosecution witness yesterday testified that Jamaat-e-Islami leader AKM Yusuf had formed Razakar force that killed 21 people, including his paternal uncle, in a single incident in Bagerhat during the Liberation War.
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THE icon of the massacre of the Bengalis, the symbol of repression and torture in 1971, has been handed down a 90-year prison term. That Ghulam Azam's age was the mitigating factor in the award of the verdict is very clear. His cohort and leader of the infamous Al-Badr gang in 1971, Mojaheed, has been awarded the death penalty.
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FOOLISH men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death": Thomas Carlyle
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Hearsay statements of witnesses are legally acceptable in the cases filed for crimes against humanity committed during the Liberation War in 1971, Attorney General Mahbubey Alam told the Supreme Court yesterday.
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