Bangladesh Islamist leader sentenced to death for war crimes
By Taylor Gillan on Oct 29, 2014 04:12 pm[JURIST] A special tribunal in Bangladesh on Wednesday sentenced Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) [party website; Global Security backgrounder] leader Motiur Rahman Nizami to death for crimes committed during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War [Bangladesh News backgrounder] with Pakistan. The former Cabinet minister was tried on charges [AP report] that included genocide, rape, murder and torture, and was accused of personally carrying out or ordering the deaths of nearly 600 Bangladeshis while serving as supreme commander of the Al-Badr militia. The JI party... +read more
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