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The International Crimes Tribunal-2 finds Jamaat-e-Islami leader Muhammad Kamaruzzaman guilty on five, out of seven war crimes charges.

Here we publish a letter written by Kamruddin Ahmad to the Law Minister on November 21, 1972. Kamruddin Ahmad was a Language Movement hero, politician, lawyer and diplomat.

BEFORE we knew it, it was the year 1970. There were political movements all around. The confrontations of the students and the public of East Bengal had reached their peak.

Here we publish an excerpt from Hasan Hafizur Rahman's introduction to History of Bangladesh War of Independence: Documents, the largest collection of the Liberation War documents.

DURING the latter half of the last [ 19th] century, when the poet Nabinchandra Sen was a student of Presidency College, the boys from West Bengal used to poke fun at him by calling him a 'Bangal.'

THIS is my first opportunity to speak to an audience after our Independence. I convey my sincere thanks to Bangla Academy for affording me this opportunity.

Every moment of the night of March 25 in 1971 and the following two-months will always shine brightly in the depths of my memory.

AS you open newspapers you read that East Pakistanis are fleeing their country, taking shelter in refugee camps and dying in thousands from cholera. But why? What is the genesis of this holocaust? Who is responsible for this human misery?

OUR nationalist movement that led to the War of Liberation began soon after the creation of Pakistan. Since inception, the Pakistani rulers began maligning our culture to destroy our independent cultural identity.

WHICH memories of 1971 are horrific? The whole period from March 25 to December 15 was one continuous hell.

IN the absence of a political solution the crisis thrown up by the events in East Pakistan can only get worse.

This is my third visit to the India-Pakistan border 60 miles east of Calcutta. The countryside has not changed.

Tajul Islam, a top member of the defence team of war crimes accused Jamaat-e-Islami leaders, has been allegedly picked up by law enforcers from his chamber in Dhaka this evening.

I would wish these pages were not only an anthology of eye-witness accounts. People of my generation have experienced enough horror to be, alas! no longer shocked. And human nature is such that it is rare that horror does not breed horror.