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Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Bangladesh man sentenced to death for 1971 war crimes

Bangladesh man sentenced to death for 1971 war crimes

By Alison Sacriponte on Nov 24, 2014 11:11 am
[JURIST] A special tribunal in Bangladesh on Monday sentenced a man to death for his role in killings during Bangladesh's 1971 independence war [GlobalSecurity backgrounder]. Mobarak Hossain was a former commander of a collaborators' group of the Pakistani army. Hossian was convicted [BBC report] of killing 33 civilians in the eastern Bangladeshi district of Brahmanbaria. He was a member of Bangladesh's largest Islamist party, Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) [GlobalSecurity backgrounder]. Two special tribunals were set up in 2010 for war crime convictions....   +read more

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