AFM Faizullah (70) alias Abul Falah alias Faizullah, a fugitive accused in a war crimes case, has been arrested by the Pagla Police Station in Gafargaon Upazila of Mymensingh.
A team of police led by Pagla Police Station OC Rasheduzzaman arrested Faizullah from Dhaka's Shahbagh around 1pm on Thursday. He has been a fugitive since Faizullah was charged with crimes against humanity in 2014. Eight people, including Faizullah, were jailed in Gafargaon Upazila on Thursday morning after being convicted of war crimes at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
Three people, including Faizullah, were sentenced to death and five others to 20 years in prison. Chairman of the International Criminal Tribunal, Justice Md. A three-member judicial panel headed by Shahinur Islam pronounced the verdict. The other two members of the tribunal are Justice Amir Hossain and Justice Abu Ahmed Jamadar. Faizullah is the son of the late Abdul Majid Khan of Sadhua village in Gafargaon upazila. Was. Following in the footsteps of Faizullah's father, Nezame played an anti-independence and anti-liberation role in the great liberation war of 1971 as an activist of Islam.
He led by armed Razakars Abdur Razzak, Samsuzzaman (Kalam), Abdul Khaleq, Badshah, Khalilur Rahman Mir Gang looted, set fire, kidnapped, tortured and killed people in the villages of Niguari, Tangab, Dutterbazar Union of Gafargaon Upazila.
In 1972, eight cases were filed against Faizullah at Gafargaon police station for crimes against humanity including murder. Faizullah was acquitted of these cases on 25 October 1975 after the assassination of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on 15 August 1975.
Faizullah then started living in Adabar area of Mohammadpur, Dhaka and worked as a journalist in the weekly Jayayatra, Daily Nayadiganta and Daily Shakti. In 2014, the late Afaz Uddin of Sadhua village filed a case against him.
After filing the case, he went into hiding. After the arrest, Faizullah said, "I came to investigate the war crimes case." I was later arrested.
I am sorry for my crime. Pagla police OC said. Rasheduzzaman said, I have just joined Pagla police station. The challenge for me was to arrest fugitives convicted of war crimes.
Meanwhile, local freedom fighters expressed satisfaction over the arrest of Razakar Faizullah and the verdict of war criminals at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
