Two death-row war criminals held in capital

Staff Reporter :
The elite force Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested two death-row convicts in separate drives in the capital’s Dakkhinkhan and Ashulia areas in a case over crimes against humanity committed during the country’s Liberation War in 1971.
The convicts have been identified as Md Mokhlesur Rahman Mukul, 67, and Nakib Hossain alias Adil Sarker, 69, were sentenced to death by International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 on January 23 in 2023.
RAB legal and media wing director Commander Khandaker Al Moin confirmed it in a press briefing held at its Kawran Bazar media centre on Tuesday noon.
He said the two were arrested in separate drives by RAB-2 on January 30.
According to RAB sources, they went into hiding in 2015 right after the case was filed against them for their crimes against humanity.
They used to change their hideouts regularly and used to avoid public gatherings to evade the law enforcers. The operation teams of RAB-2 arrested Nakib from Dakkhinkhan and Mokhlesur from Ashulia areas on Monday, he said.
The ICT-1 on January 23 sentenced six convicts including Nakib and Mokhlesur to death, the RAB official said.
It is mentionable that the first tribunal on December 5, 2018, framed six charges of crimes against humanity and on February 18, 2019, started recording depositions of the witnesses.
The court on different hearing dates examined a total 19 witnesses in the case.