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| Bangladesh |
| 4 sued for '71 killing |
| 2009-02-24 |
| A case was filed against four people here yesterday on charge of killing three freedom fighters during the country's Liberation War in 1971. Abdul Hashem Sheikh, son of late freedom fighter Abdul Goni Sheikh of Kumlai village in Rampal upazila, lodged the case against Sheikh Shamsul Alam, Rustam Talukder, Sheikh Yunus Ali and Hamid Sheikh of the same village for their alleged involvement in the killing of his three family members. According to the case filed with the court of senior judicial magistrate Md Yarab Hossain, the four persons allegedly killed Hashem's father Goni Sheikh, brother Hamid Sheikh and cousin Abul Kashem in the middle of November, 1971. Sources said the court received the case and ordered the officer-in-charge of Rampal thana to take necessary action in this connection after investigation. Local sources said only Shamsul Alam is alive among the four suspected war criminals. |
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