Bangladesh’s former State Minister for Agriculture, Syed Mohammed Qaiser, was charged, this week, with 18 war crimes that were committed during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971.
The charges were filed by the International Crimes Tribunal Bangladesh (ICTB) which initially issued the arrest warrant for Qaiser in May.
The ICTB was established in 2009 under the International Crimes Act, and is mandated with the investigation and prosecution of war crimes committed during the 1971 Bangladeshi conflict.