Bangladesh upholds Islamist Kamaruzzaman Death Sentence
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Bangladesh's supreme court has upheld the death sentence given to a leader in the country's largest Islamist party.
Mohammad Kamaruzzaman, assistant secretary general of Jamaat-e-Islami, was found guilty of genocide and torture by a special war crimes tribunal in May last year.
The same tribunal sentenced party chief Motiur Rahman Nizami to death last week for war crimes.
Another leader, Mir Quasem Ali, was also given the death penalty on Sunday.
Kamaruzzaman, 62, is due to be hanged for atrocities committed during the country's war of independence from Pakistan in 1971.
Among his crimes was a mass killing of at least 120 unarmed male farmers in the northern border town of Sohagpur.
The convictions of Jamaat-e-Islami leaders have outraged supporters, who have conducted a three-day strike, due to end on Monday, in protest of Nizami's sentencing last Wednesday.
There are different estimates for the number of people killed in the nine-month Bangladeshi war of secession.
Government figures suggest as many as three million people died, while some say that figure is too high and unverifiable.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina set up the war crimes tribunal in 2010 to look into abuses during the independence war.
The first person the tribunal executed was Jamaat-e-Islami senior leader Abdul Kader Mullah.
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Bangladesh's supreme court has upheld the death sentence given to a leader in the country's largest Islamist party.
Mohammad Kamaruzzaman, assistant secretary general of Jamaat-e-Islami, was found guilty of genocide and torture by a special war crimes tribunal in May last year.
The same tribunal sentenced party chief Motiur Rahman Nizami to death last week for war crimes.
Another leader, Mir Quasem Ali, was also given the death penalty on Sunday.
Kamaruzzaman, 62, is due to be hanged for atrocities committed during the country's war of independence from Pakistan in 1971.
Among his crimes was a mass killing of at least 120 unarmed male farmers in the northern border town of Sohagpur.
The convictions of Jamaat-e-Islami leaders have outraged supporters, who have conducted a three-day strike, due to end on Monday, in protest of Nizami's sentencing last Wednesday.
There are different estimates for the number of people killed in the nine-month Bangladeshi war of secession.
Government figures suggest as many as three million people died, while some say that figure is too high and unverifiable.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina set up the war crimes tribunal in 2010 to look into abuses during the independence war.
The first person the tribunal executed was Jamaat-e-Islami senior leader Abdul Kader Mullah.
Bangladesh court upholds top Islamist's death sentence
Islamist party member in Bangladesh sentenced to death for 1971 war crimes
Bangladesh Islamist leader sentenced to death for war crimes
Politics and the past in Bangladesh: Dialling down
Bangladesh party chief gets death sentence
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- published: 03 Nov 2014
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