SHERPUR: A six-member investigation team of the International Crimes Tribunal here Tuesday started spot investigation into the crimes committed during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War with an exclusive parley with a Rajaker of that time.

Deputy Commissioner M Nasiruzzaman and Police Super M Anisur Rahman were present at the meeting where Mohan Munshi, an aide to Jamaat leader Kamaruzzaman during the liberation war, was learnt to have narrated the wartime happenings in the frontier district.

The probe body was informed about the role of the detained Jamaat-e-Islami assistant secretary-general, Kamaruzzaman, during the war.

One official source said, “The probe team recorded exclusive depositions made by Mohan. It is assumed that he might be approver of the tribunal.”

Jeyad Al Malum, a prosecutor of the tribunal, said, “We want to do the investigation of the tribunal through the participation of the common people, not under cover of black cloth.”

The team would visit different places where occurred incidents like mass burial, and the killing field at 9am and record witness statements from 2pm to 5pm Wednesday.   

The team members are Additional Police Super of the CID Motiur Rahman, ASP of the Special Branch Nurul Islam, CID Inspector Abdur Razzak Khan, Supreme Court lawyer and prosecutor of the investigation team Zeyad-al-Malum and their two aides.

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

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

This is the fourth spot visit by the team in their hunt for material evidences of the incidents of genocide. They had earlier visited Chuknagar of Khulna, Pirojpur and Brahmanbaria.

BDST: 2150 HRS, SEPT 14, 2010