At the International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Wednesday, Muni Akter, wife of slain Nazrul Islam, testified as the third witness against dismissed army officer Major General Ziaul Ahsan. She stated that on March 15, 2010, five to six men in plain clothes abducted her husband from Bamta Mor in Kotalipara, Gopalganj, and he was never seen again. Later, police recovered his body from the Baleshwar River in Sharankhola, Bagerhat. She said she later learned that then RAB intelligence chief Ziaul Ahsan was responsible for her husband’s disappearance and killing.

Muni Akter told the tribunal that her husband had worked as a medical assistant at the BDR headquarters in Pilkhana and fled after witnessing the 2009 BDR mutiny killings. He later took a job at Madhumati Clinic in Kotalipara under a false name. After his disappearance, she filed a case with Kotalipara Police Station. Authorities later informed the family that his body had been buried as unclaimed, and it was reburied after DNA confirmation.

She appealed for justice for her husband’s abduction and murder, asserting that he was targeted for witnessing the BDR killings.