Azharul Islam was ordered “hanged by the neck” for the genocide of more than 1,200 people in a flood plain in the northern district of Rangpur.
Source/Credit: The Express Tribune
By AFP | December 30, 2014
DHAKA: Bangladesh’s war crimes court Tuesday sentenced a Jamaat leader to death for rape, mass murder and genocide during the country’s 1971 independence conflict.
A.T.M Azharul Islam, 62, became the 16th person and the 11th religious leader to be convicted of atrocities by the International Crimes Tribunal, which found him guilty of being a key member of a notorious pro-Pakistan militia.
Azharul Islam is the assistant secretary general of the nation’s largest religious party, the Jamaat-e Islami.
He was ordered “hanged by the neck” for the genocide of more than 1,200 people in a flood plain in the northern district of Rangpur.
“No doubt, it was mass murder,” presiding judge Enayetur Rahimjudge Rahim told a packed court.
Those killed included hundreds of minority Hindus in one of the worst episodes of the nine-month war, which saw what was then east Pakistan break away from the regime in Islamabad.
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