1.
On May 4, 1971, Delawar Hossain Sayedee as a member of Peace (Shanti) Committee
carried secret information to the Pakistan army about a gathering of a group of
people behind the Madhya Masimpur bus-stand under Pirojpur Sadar and took the
army to the spot. The army killed 20 unnamed people by firing.
2.
On May 4, 1971, Sayedee along with his accomplices accompanied by the Pakistan army
looted belongings of members of the Hindu community living in Masimpur Hindu Para
under Pirojpur Sadar. They also set the houses of Hindus alight and opened fire
on the scared people, who started fleeing the scene, killing 13 people.
3.
On May 4, 1971, Sayedee led a team of the Pakistan army to Masimpur Hindu Para,
where the team looted goods from the houses of two members of the Hindu
community -- Monindra Nath Mistri and Suresh Chandra Mondol -- and destroyed
their houses by setting them on fire. Sayedee also directly took part in the
large-scale destruction by setting fire to the roadside houses of villages
Kalibari, Masimpur, Palpara, Sikarpur, Razarhat, Kukarpara, Dumur Tola,
Kalamtola, Nawabpur, Alamkuthi, Dhukigathi, Parerha and Chinrakhali.
4.
On May 4, 1971, Sayedee and his accomplices, accompanied by the Pakistani army looted
the houses of members of the Hindu community and opened fire indiscriminately on
them in front of Dhopa Bari and behind the LGED Building in Pirojpur, leaving
four persons killed.
5.
Sayedee declared publicly to arrest Saif Mizanur Rahman, then deputy magistrate
of Pirojpur Sub-division, when the magistrate organised a Sarbo Dalio Sangram
Parishad to inspire people to join the Liberation War. On May 5, 1971, Sayedee
along with his associate Monnaf (now deceased), a member of Peace (Shanti)
Committee, accompanied by the Pakistan army picked up Saif from the hospital
where he was hiding and took him to the bank of the Baleshwar river. On the
same date and time, Foyezur Rahman Ahmed, sub-divisional police officer, and
Abdur Razzak (SDO in charge of Pirojpur), were also arrested from their
workplaces and taken to the river bank. Sayedee as a member of the killer squad
was present there and all three government officials were gunned down. Their
bodies were thrown into the river Baleshwar. Sayedee directly participated and abetted
in the acts of abduction and killing of those three officers.
6.
On May 7, 1971, Sayedee identified the houses and shops of Bangalees belonging
to the Awami League, Hindu community and supporters of the Liberation War at
Parerhat Bazar under Pirojpur Sadar. Sayedee as one of the perpetrators raided
those shops and houses and looted valuables, including 22 seers of gold and
silver from the shop of one Makhanlal Saha.
7.
On May 8, 1971, Sayedee led a team of the Pakistan army to the house of Nurul
Islam Khan, where he identified Nurul Islam as an Awami League leader and his
son Shahidul Islam Selim as a freedom-fighter to the army. Sayedee then
detained Nurul Islam and handed him to the army, which tortured Nurul Islam.
His house was then looted and finally set on fire.
8.
On May 8, 1971, Sayedee and his accomplices accompanied by the Pakistan army raided
the house of one Manik Posari at Chitholia under Pirojpur Sadar and caught his brother
Mofizuddin and one Ibrahim. Sayedee's accomplices then burnt five houses there.
On the way to the Pakistani army's camp, Sayedee instigated the members of the occupation
force to kill Ibrahim by gunshot and dump his body near a bridge. On the other
hand, Mofiz was taken to the army camp and tortured. Sayedee directly
participated in the abduction, murder and persecution of the victims.
9.
On June 2, 1971, armed associates of Sayedee under his leadership and
accompanied by the Pakistani army raided the house of one Abdul Halim Babul at
Nolbunia under Indurkani Police Station and looted valuables from Halim's
house. The team then reduced the house to ashes.
10.
On June 2, 1971, Sayedee's armed associates under his leadership and
accompanied by the Pakistan army burnt 25 houses of a Hindu Para in Umedpur
village under Indurkani Police Station. At one stage, a victim, Bisabali, was
tied to a coconut tree andwas shot dead by Sayedee's accomplice.
11.
On June 2, 1971, Sayedee led a team of Peace (Shanti) Committee members, accompanied
by the Pakistani army, to raid the house of Mahbubul Alam Howlader (freedom-fighter)
of Tengra Khali village under Indurkani Police Station. Sayedee and the team
then detained Mahbubul's elder brother Abdul Mazid Howlader and tortured him,
and looted cash money, jewellery and other valuables from the house.
12.
One day a group comprising 15-20 armed accomplices of Sayedee under his leadership
entered the Hindu Para of Parerhat Bazar under Pirojpur Sadar and captured 14
Hindus, who were all supporters of Bangladesh's independence. The fourteen were
then tied with a single rope and dragged to Pirojpur and handed over to
Pakistani soldiers, who killed them. Their bodies were thrown into the river.
13.
One night, about 2 to 3 months after the war commenced, some members of Peace Committee
under Sayedee's leadership accompanied by the Pakistan army raided the house of
Azhar Ali of Nalbunia village under Pirojpur Sadar Police Station. They then caught
and tortured Azahar Ali and his son Shaheb Ali. The team then abducted Shaheb Ali
and ultimately he was taken to Pirojpur and killed.
14.
During the final stages of the war, Sayedee one morning led a team of Razakar
Bahini consisting of 50 to 60 Razakars, into attacking the Hindu Para of
Hoglabunia under Pirojpur Sadar. Seeing the attackers, the Hindus managed to
flee but one Shefali Gharami failed to do that. Some members of Razakar Bahini
entered her room and raped her. Being the leader of the team, Sayedee did not
prevent them from committing rape upon her. Sayedee and the members of his team
also set fire to the dwelling houses of the Hindu Para.
15.
During the last part of the war, Sayedee led 15 to 20 armed Razakars who
entered the Hoglabunia village under Pirojpur Sadar Police Station and caught
10 members of the Hindu faith. The attackers then tied all the members of Hindu
community with a single rope, dragged them to Pirojpur and handed them over to
the Pakistani army. They were all killed and their bodies were dumped into the
river.
16.
In the course of the Liberation War, Sayedee led a group of 10-12 armed Razakars
and Peace Committee members, which surrounded the house of Gouranga Saha of Parerhat
Bandar under Pirojpur Sadar. Subsequently, Sayedee and the others abducted three
women and handed them over to the Pakistan army at Pirojpur where they were confined
and raped for three days before being released.
17.
During the Liberation War, Sayedee along with other armed Razakars kept Bipod Saha's
daughter Vanu Saha confined to Bipod Saha's house at Parerhat under Pirojpur Sadar
Police Station and regularly used to go there to rape her.
18.
During the Liberation War, one Bhagirothi used to work in the camp of the
Pakistan army. One day, after a fight with the freedom fighters, and at the
instance of Sayedee, Bhagirothi was charged with passing information to the
freedom fighters and killed.
19.
During the war, Sayedee, being a member of Razakar Bahini and exercising his influence
over the Hindu community of Pirojpur, converted 100-150 Hindus of Parerhat and
other villages and compelled them to go to the mosque to offer prayers.
20.
On a day at the end of November 1971, Sayedee got information that thousands of
people were fleeing to India in order to save their lives. A group of 10-12
armed members of the Razakar Bahini, under Sayedee's leadership, then attacked
the houses of Talukdar Bari at Indurkani village and detained a total of 85
persons and looted goods from there. Of them, all but 10-12 persons were
released in exchange for bribes negotiated by Fazlul Huq, a member of the
Razakar Bahini. Male persons were tortured and female persons were raped by
Pakistan soldiers deployed in the camp.
Source: http://www.thedailystar.net/suppliments/charges_sayedee.pdf
Source: http://www.thedailystar.net/suppliments/charges_sayedee.pdf
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