Sunday, November 3, 2013
Bangladesh
Bangladesh Sentences 2 Men to Death for War Crimes
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: November 3, 2013 at 3:01 AM ET
DHAKA, Bangladesh — A special war crimes tribunal in Bangladesh on
Sunday sentenced to death two Bangladeshis now living in the U.S. and
Britain for crimes against humanity during the country's independence
war against Pakistan in 1971.
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Chowdhury Mueen Uddin, who lives in Britain, and Ashrafuzzaman Khan, who
is in New York, were found guilty by a three-judge panel of abducting
and murdering 18 people including nine university teachers, six
journalists and three physicians in December 1971.
The two have been tried in absentia after they refused to return to Bangladesh to face the trial.
Bangladesh says Pakistani soldiers and local collaborators killed 3
million people and raped 200,000 women during the war.
During the 1971 war, the two men were members of the Jamaat-e-Islami.
The Islamic party is an ally of the country's main opposition Bangladesh
Nationalist Party headed by former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, a rival
of current Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
Hasina formed the special tribunal in 2010 to try war crimes suspects.
A Supreme Court ruling last month that upheld the conviction and death
sentence of a senior member of Jamaat-e-Islami, Abdul Quader Mollah,
triggered deadly clashes and a nationwide general strike.
Source:The New York times
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