Four charges have been pressed by the prosecution against two war crimes suspects of Shariatpur district yesterday.
Sulaiman Mollah, 84, and Edris Ali Sarder alias Gazi Edris, 67, were charged with killing, mass killing, rape, torture and confinement during the 1971 Liberation War.
Prosecutor Sheikh Mushfiq Kabir said Sulaiman was the organiser of Shariatpur Peace Committee and Razakar Bahini.
Formal charges against the two men were submitted to the registrar’s office of the International Crimes Tribunal, which scheduled a hearing for November. The court on that day will also hear a bail petition filed by Sulaiman.
Sulaiman was arrested on June 14 but Edris has not yet been detained.
Investigators submitted the probe report against the two accused on October 29.
