Testimony of Md. Enab Najez Jaki.

My name is Md. Enab Najez Jaki. My present age is approximately 60 years. I am a retired garments officer.

I am the father of Shaheed As-Sabur. My son became a martyr on 5 August last year in front of Ashulia Police Station. He was shot dead and then set on fire.

On that day, my son left home around 10:00 a.m. to join a procession. At about 11:30 a.m. the procession moved from Jamgara to Baipail. Around 11:30 a.m., he called my elder son Rezoan and informed him that he was in the procession. Around 12:30 p.m., he again called his elder brother and said, “Many people are being shot here and are falling down.” His brother told him to leave the place, but he did not. Instead, he continued with the procession from Baipail towards Ashulia Police Station.

Around 3:30 p.m., when heavy firing was going on in that area, he took shelter inside a house to save himself. From then on, we had no trace of him. After 4:00 p.m., his mobile phone was found switched off. He never returned home that day.

On the next day, 6 August 2024, we searched for my son in various hospitals and clinics. Around 3:30 p.m., a coordinator named Imran from Jahangirnagar University informed my elder son that there were several burnt bodies in front of Ashulia Police Station and asked him to come and identify whether one of them was his brother. Hearing this, Rezoan broke down in tears.

I sent my nephew Humayun Kabir to the spot along with my distant cousin Mehedi Hasan. They identified my son AS-Sabur by the burnt piece of his T-shirt and the SIM card of his mobile phone. The SIM card was taken out from the mobile found with the body and inserted into another phone, and it was confirmed that the SIM belonged to my son As-Sabur.

That evening around 6:00 p.m., the army and students together performed the funeral prayer for six burnt bodies, including my son’s, and then handed the bodies over to us. My brother and nephew brought his body to our house. I looked at my son’s body once, but his face was so brutally disfigured that there was no way to recognize him. After the second funeral prayer at 8:00 p.m., we took his body to our village home in Mohadevpur, Naogaon district. The next morning, 7 August at 9:00 a.m., after the third funeral prayer, he was buried.

Under the instructions of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, and incited by former Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader, with the orders of former Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal and former IGP Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun, the then OC, SI, constables of Ashulia Police Station killed my son. With the help and support of Abdullah Hel Kafi (then Deputy Police Commissioner, Dhaka North), DB SI Arafat Hossain, and Saiful Islam (former MP of Dhaka-19), the police carried out this killing.

Not only that, my son along with five others were placed inside a police van, doused with petrol, and set on fire. I have two videos related to this incident. I have submitted a pen drive containing these videos to the Tribunal. This is that pen drive (Exhibit-V).

(When the two videos were played in the Tribunal, it was seen in one video that after the killings, the bodies were dumped onto a rickshaw van in a pile. In the second video, the bodies were seen being burnt inside a police van, where a police member was seen throwing a wooden bench into the fire to intensify the flames. During the video presentation, the witness broke down in tears. He identified his son’s dead body lying on top of the rickshaw van in the video.)

I want justice and peace for my son’s killers. The way the accused burnt my son to death, I want that kind of peace.

The Investigating Officer has interrogated me. This is my testimony.

Cross Examination by State appointed counsel, Amir Hossain

I did not witness the incident myself, but I saw on television that Sheikh Hasina gave instructions regarding the measures to be taken for suppression.

It is not true that Sheikh Hasina did not give the order to use force.

It is not true that Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal did not give instructions or was not involved.

It is not true that the accused was not involved in this killing.