Another implicates Hasan in killing of 8 Netrokona Hindus

Corroborating the 16th prosecution witness, another told the International Crimes Tribunal-1 yesterday that Syed Md Hasan Ali shot dead his three paternal uncles and his men killed five other family members following his order on September 27, 1971.

Nani Gopal Ghosh, the 17th prosecution witness from Paikura village in Kendua upazila of Netrakona, said the eight were shot dead in Makran Beel in Tarail of Kishoreganj when they were feeling the country on the day during the Liberation War.

Hasan and his men also looted gold ornaments and cash from his aunties who were somehow saved by a local Union Parishad chairman, said 71-year-old Gopal as he had heard

the incident from his aunties and an uncle who was also wounded in the firing.

Hasan, an alleged Razakar commander of Tarail upazila, is facing six charges, including mass killing. He has been tried in absentia.

State-appointed defence counsel Abdus Shukur Khan completed cross-examination before the tribunal that adjourned the case proceeding till tomorrow.