{"id":2163,"date":"2025-07-20T17:54:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T17:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/?p=2163"},"modified":"2025-09-17T18:25:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T12:25:22","slug":"complaint-filed-at-icc-against-3-army-officers-yunus-waker-for-gopalganj-massacre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/?p=2163","title":{"rendered":"Complaint filed at ICC against 3 army officers, Yunus-Waker for Gopalganj massacre"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
A complaint has been filed at the International Criminal Court against three officers of the Bangladesh Army<\/a>, who led the massacre against unarmed people in Gopalganj on Wednesday and the subsequent crackdown in the name of curfew.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The officers are the General Officer Commanding (GOC) of the 55th Infantry Division and Jessore Cantonment, Major General JM Emdadul Islam; the Brigade Commander, Brigadier General Md Mizanur Rahman; and Field Officer Lt Col ZM Mabruk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The other accused are the chief adviser of the unconstitutional interim government and Jamaat puppet, Prof Muhammad Yunus; army chief General Waker-Uz-Zaman; Home Adviser Lt Gen (Retd) Jahangir Alam Chowdhury; and leaders of Yunus\u2019 National Citizen Party (NCP), including its convener, Nahid Islam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Expatriate Awami League leader Nadim Bhuiyan filed the complaint last week, according to barrister and solicitor Nijhoom Majumder. The ICC gave him a copy of the acknowledgement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since no Bangladeshi court would try the matter, Nadim Bhuiyan charged the perpetrators under Article 15 of the Rome Statute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe crimes committed by the Bangladesh Army are more barbaric than what I saw the Pakistan Army doing in 1971. I could not grasp such heinous crimes,\u201d he told journalists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another complaint was filed the same day by Texas-based Awami League leader Nahida Naser in line with Article 15 of the Rome Statute against 64 persons, including Yunus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

GCDG documents gross violation of human rights in Gopalganj<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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She filed the complaint at the ICC seeking justice for three types of crimes against humanity\u2014murder of police, Awami League members, and minorities\u2014committed during August 5-8 last year when the jihadists and terrorists captured power through conspiracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The unconstitutional interim government indemnified the crimes in an order on October 14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Talking to journalists, Nahida Naser said the current state of affairs in Bangladesh cannot be accepted. The illegal government is obstructing freedom of speech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They overthrew a democratically elected government and oppressed the minorities, killed the police, and also defamed the freedom fighters. \u201cThis cannot continue in my country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI have filed this complaint against Yunus and his collaborators,\u201d she said, urging all to raise their voices and file complaints in the ICC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier, Sylhet City Corporation Mayor Anwaruzzaman Chowdhury filed a complaint at the ICC on November 8 last year against 62 people over the same allegations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The accused include Prof Yunus, Jahangir, advisers Prof Asif Nazrul, Brigadier (Retd) M Sakhawat Hossain, Syeda Rizwana Hasan, and Asif Mahmud Sajeeb Bhuiyan, and former adviser Nahid Islam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later, on June 22, Toronto-based expatriate Md Hassan filed another complaint at the ICC over the same charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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