Former Jessore MP Sakhawat Hossain have to die and seven others will rot in jail for the rest of their lives for violent atrocities they let loose in the villages of Keshabpur in the 1971, the war crimes tribunal has decreed.
The sentences were pronounced by the three-strong International Crimes Tribunal headed by Justice Anwarul Haque on Wednesday.
The court found all of the five charges brought against the defendants to have been proved beyond doubt.
Jatiya Party’s Presidium Member ‘Mawlana’ Sakhawat and Md Billal Hossain Biswas were in the dock when the court ruling came.
Md Ibrahim Hossain, Sheikh Md Mojibur Rahman, MA Aziz Sardar, Abdul Aziz Sardar, Kazi Ohidul Islam and Md Abdul Khalek are fleeing from justice.
