Charges against Ghulam Azam

DHAKA, July 15: The former Jamaat-e-Islami chief Ghulam Azam is facing five charges including involvement in murder and torture of unarmed people, conspiracy, planning, incitement and complicity in genocide, and crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War.

One of the charges against Ghulam Azam was involvement in the torture and murder of 38 people in Brahmanbaria on November 11, 1971, including Shiru Miah, a sub-inspector of Mohammadpur Police Station.

The Pakistani forces with the help of their collaborators — Razakar and Al Badr — killed the 38 after receiving a written order from Ghulam Azam, the charges said.

The tribunal also charged him with conspiring to commit crimes on six occasions on which different crimes against humanity were perpetrated across Bangladesh.

The former Jamaat chief was charged with planning to commit crimes on three occasions, which resulted in crimes against humanity committed across the country.

He was also charged with 28 instances of provoking crimes and his complicity in 23 incidents of crimes against humanity.