Quader Mollah directly involved

Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdul Quader Mollah was directly involved in killing people at Alubdi village of the capital's Pallabi during the 1971 Liberation War, Attorney General Mahbubey Alam told the Supreme Court yesterday.
He was placing arguments on the 12th day of hearing of convict Mollah's appeal seeking acquittal in the crimes against humanity case.
The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-2 on February 5 jailed Mollah for life after finding him guilty of five wartime criminal offences.
Mahbubey cited from statements of prosecution witnesses Shafiuddin Mollah and Amir Hossain Mollah before the ICT-2 regarding the killing.
On April 24, 1971, Pakistan occupation forces and non-Bangalees led by Mollah attacked and killed 344 unarmed villagers, states one proven charge.
Citing Khondaker Abdul Ahsan, another prosecution witness, Mahbubey argued that Mollah and his accomplices killed journalist Khondaker Abu Taleb in Mirpur's Jallad Khana Pump House during the Liberation War.
He said the Jallad Khana report, which stated that non-Bangalees killed Taleb, has no authenticity, so it is not an evidence. The report is a collection of statements of victims' families on the killing stored in the Liberation War Museum's extension in Jallad Khana.
Defence lawyers earlier argued that the report refuted Ahsan's statement.