The International Crimes Tribunal censured war criminal Chowdhury Mueen Uddin in its verdict delivered on Sunday for the comments he made about the tribunal after his indictment in a July 20 interview with Al Jazeera.
The tribunal said the remarks were “audacious” and “disparaging,” and that his activities proved that he had a “guilty mind.”
In its observation, the tribunal said: “Chowdhury Mueen Uddin in a recent interview with Al Jazeera made extremely audacious and disparaging remarks in respect of our war of liberation and the freedom fighters...usually an offender never admits his guilt. [But] fleeing instantly after the independence is a fair indication of their guilty mind.”
According to investigations of the War Crimes Files – a British Channel 4 documentary on the intellectuals’ killers now living in the UK - during the war Mueen had been the leading commander of al-Badr, which organised the systematic slaughter of Dhaka’s intelligentsia.
In the interview, Mueen termed the ongoing trial a “sham” and a “joke,” and labeled the tribunal as a “kangaroo court.” He said he would never appear before it.
His comments came only four days after the tribunal 2 had begun hearings in the case against him.
