A few days before the fall, former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had ordered doctors and hospital authorities to give 'no treatment, no release' to those injured in the July uprising at Pangu Hospital in the capital. The prosecution has received evidence of this, said International Crimes Tribunal Chief Prosecutor Md. Tajul Islam.
He made this statement to media personnel at a press briefing in the conference room of the tribunal's prosecution office after the hearing on the pre-determined issues in the court on Sunday.
The Chief Prosecutor said, "When we visited the National Orthopaedic Hospital and Rehabilitation Institute (Nitor) or Pangu Hospital in the capital, the injured patients and their relatives who were being treated there told us that Sheikh Hasina had visited the hospital once before fleeing. When she went there, she said, 'No treatment, no release.' That is, the doctors on duty and the hospital authorities were instructed not to provide any treatment to the injured and not to let anyone out of here."
The court has asked us to know that the postmortem reports of the martyrs are very important evidence and why are they not there? - Stating that, he said, we have informed the court that the scale of crimes against humanity at that moment was so horrific that the bodies of the martyrs were forced to be buried quickly. That is why no postmortem reports were given to them. The incident is not a normal matter but is a blazing proof of crimes against humanity. This proves the kind of cruelty with which the killings were carried out in July-August.
He also said that the evidence of such brutality by former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will be submitted to the court after being verified and forensically examined following due process and linked to the evidence of genocide and crimes against humanity cases.
