Jumbangla Desk : High Court Additional Judge Md. The interim government is reorganizing the International Criminal Tribunal with Golam Mortuza Majumdar as its chairman. His partner in this three-member tribunal is Additional High Court Judge Shafiul Alam Mahmud and retired District and Sessions Judge Md. Mohitul Haque Enam Chowdhury. Masood Saidi, son of Hossain Saidi of Delawar, shared the notification regarding the reorganization of the tribunal on his verified Facebook page and wrote, 'Tribunal is ready. Now let's play!'
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In the post given on Tuesday (October 15) at 9:22 in the morning, he also wrote, 'Hasina and her friends will be judged by the law made by the murderer Hasina and in the tribunal made by her, Inshallah. I have shed thousands of tears in the court of the great Lord to see this day. Now this is the dream come true - just a few days to wait.'
Earlier, in a briefing at the secretariat on Monday evening, legal adviser Professor Asif Nazrul said that the newly appointed judge of the High Court Division as the chairman of the tribunal. Ghulam Mortuza Majumder has been appointed. Apart from this, two more judges will work in the tribunal. The tribunal has been accused of genocide in July and August in connection with the anti-discrimination student movement. The interim government has decided to try these allegations in the International Criminal Tribunal.
As part of this, new prosecution teams and investigation agencies have been formed. Law amendment and building repair work for trial is also ongoing. It is in such circumstances that the judge of the tribunal was appointed.
The Awami League government established the International Criminal Tribunal in 2010 to try war crimes in 1971. Now, the interim government has taken the initiative to try the Awami League government's repression against the students' movement as 'genocide' in this court.
On August 5, Sheikh Hasina's government collapsed in the face of a student coup. He left the post of Prime Minister and went to India. Crimes against humanity including murder, genocide centered on the movement of students will be tried in the International Criminal Tribunal. The tribunal has so far filed complaints against Sheikh Hasina and more than 50 of her cabinet members.
On August 14 last year, Jamaat-e-Islami Naib Amir and former MP Delawar Hossain Sayeedi, who was sentenced to life for crimes against humanity in 1971, died while undergoing treatment in Dhaka's Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University. He has four sons. Among them, the eldest son, Rafiq Bin Saidi, died.
Another son Shamim Saeedi is in America on a personal visit. His other son Masood Saeedee lives in the country. He is a Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami nominated MP candidate for Pirojpur-1 constituency. And younger son Naseem Saeedi is a resident of UK.
