Bangladesh, May 11 -- Chief Prosecutor of the International Crimes Tribunal Mohammad Aminul Islam on Sunday claimed that then Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had instructed law enforcement agencies to use lethal weapons to suppress the July-August mass uprising.
He made the claim at a press conference at his office after the tribunal ordered formal charges to be framed against 28 people in a crimes against humanity case filed over the killing of nine people during the July movement in Mohammadpur, Dhaka.
Quoting what he described as a conversation between Sheikh Hasina and then Dhaka South City Corporation mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh, the Chief Prosecutor said the instruction was to use lethal weapons and shoot directly wherever protester...