Dhaka, Oct. 9 -- Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuyain, one of the key coordinators of the Anti-discrimination Student Movement, has testified before the International Crimes Tribunal that "orders were issued to kill" the coordinators if they refused to call off the protests.

Now an advisor to the interim government, Asif told the tribunal that after he was picked up during the peak of the movement, he was informed that the orders had come from the then prime minister Sheikh Hasina and home minister Asaduzzaman Khan.

He testified on Thursday before Tribunal-1 as the 19th witness in the case of crimes against humanity related to the killing of six people in Chankharpul.

In his deposition, Asif detailed the chain of events from the movement that er...