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Another report indicates that a prominent Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) figure is about to face war crimes charges in his native Bangladesh.
Questions about Ashrafuzzaman Khan's role in death squads during Bangladesh's 1971 civil war have lingered for years. Now a website covering New York immigrant communities reports that Khan could be among four people to face charges within weeks.
Khan has denied any wrongdoing, but Global City NYC reports that a Bangladesh war crimes tribunal issued a report in October placing Khan amid a Pakistani military-orchestrated what the tribunal's prosecutor described as a "master plan" targeting Bengali intellectuals and academics "who might have played key roles in the new state" in the civil war's closing days.