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1971 Genocide: war-crime investigators to visit Sherpur

Jakia Ahmed, Staff Correspondent |
Update: 2010-09-13 01:39:35
1971 Genocide: war-crime investigators to visit Sherpur

DHAKA: An investigation team of the International Crimes Tribunal is going to visit the frontier-district Sherpur Tuesday for spot investigation into mass killings during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War.

The team would inquire into the killings there during liberation war, a competent source said, now that war crimes trial at the tribunal is underway.

Prosecution sources told banglanews that four officials and two aides would go to Sherpur Tuesday.

The investigators would go to Mymensingh on September 15 following the Sherpur mission and return to Dhaka on September 16.

This is would be the fourth spot visit by the team. Earlier, they visited Chuknagar of Khulna, Pirojpur and Brahmanbaria.

BDST: 2105 HRS, SEPT 13, 2010

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