Dhaka, Sept 12 (UNB) - A defence witness on Wednesday told the International Crimes Tribunal-1 that he had made testimonies at courts in connection with numerous cases in his life, but it is his first experience to be a defence witness in such a case that deals with crimes against humanity during the Liberation War.

“Every month, I’ve to rush to courts to testify in the cases, especially the ones my employer faces,” said Abul Hossain, the defence witness for war crimes accused Delwar Hossain Sayedee while facing cross-examinations by the prosecution counsel.

Declining a prosecution lawyer’s suggestion branding him as a professional witness, DW Abdul Hossain, manager of Square Electric, a private business office in Jessore, said, “I appeared before the tribunal for giving testimony at the request of Sayedee’s brother-in-law made one year ago.”

The DW-4 told the tribunal that he was a teacher of music at a kindergarten school before joining the job of manager.

Replying to a prosecution question, Abul Hossian said he did not have any idea about Sayedee’s ancestral home.

Earlier, while giving his testimony, he told the tribunal that Sayedee was their next-door neighbour in Jessore’s new town housing made for mohajirs came from India after partition since 1968. “But we were separated from each other’s family in April 1971 following Pakistan occupation army repression in Jessore.

“We had gone to India for shelter while Sayedee along with his family taken shelter at the house of his peer at village Mohiron in Bagherpara thana, Jessore. Since then, I don’t have any communication with Sayedee,” said Abul Hossain.