Bangladesh hangs Jama'at-e Islami leaders for 1971 war crimes

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Chowdhury was convicted of atrocities including genocide during the 1971 war when the then East Pakistan split from West Pakistan. He served six terms as a member of parliament and was one of [former PM] Zia's top aides.

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Source/Credit: Al Jazeera
By Excerpts | November 22, 2015

The security measures have been taken following the hanging of Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid and Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury on Sunday - for war crimes committed during the 1971 independence conflict with Pakistan.
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The opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) accused Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh's prime minister, of presiding over a politically motivated killing which was carried only hours after its leader, Khaleda Zia, returned from a lengthy stay in London.
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A total of 18 people have been convicted, but only two had been sent to the gallows until Sunday.

While the other three were members of the largest Islamist party, Jamaat-e-Islami, Chowdhury, 66, was a senior figure in the BNP.

Chowdhury was convicted of atrocities including genocide during the 1971 war when the then East Pakistan split from West Pakistan.

He served six terms as a member of parliament and was one of Zia's top aides.

Mujahid, 67, was sentenced for war crimes including killing top intellectuals. Jamaat's official number two, he was convicted of heading the al-Badr armed group during the war.

Jamaat, which was banned from contesting the 2014 general elections, said the executions were part of a strategy "aimed at eliminating" its leadership.
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Despite having long been accused of leading massacres of pro-independence figures and minorities, both Chowdhury and Mujahid held cabinet posts a little over a decade ago when the BNP was in power.



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