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Two more war crimes convicts fret about their fate after Bangladesh executed war criminal Mohammad Kamaruzzaman on Saturday.
The cases of Jamaat-e-Islami’s Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujaheed and BNP’s Salauddin Quader Chowdhury are leading the Appellate Division’s cause list.
They were expected to be heard last Tuesday, but the day’s hearing ended before they could be brought up.
Nine war crimes cases await the top court’s verdict.
Altogether 14 such cases made their way to the appeals court and final verdicts have been issued in three of them.
Death sentences of Jamaat’s assistant
secretaries general Abdul Quader Molla Kamaruzzaman have been carried out. Jamaat’s Executive Council Member Delwar Hossain Sayedee’s death penalty was commuted to a life imprisonment.
But an appeal for a review has not been resolved since the full verdict is yet to be published.
Jamaat’s Liberation War-time chief Ghulam Azam and BNP’s former minister Abdul Alim died during the trial.
The Supreme Court declared their appeal proceedings defunct.
Bangladesh put suspected war criminals on trial after the government set up a special tribunal in 2010. A second one was formed two years later to expedite the trials.
An estimated three million people were killed and over 200,000 women raped during the Liberation War in 1971. About 10 million people were forced to seek refuge in India.
The Jamaat, which came out strongly in support of a united, non-secular and Bengali-hating Pakistan, is accused of perpetrating war crimes.
Two more war crimes convicts fret about their fate after Bangladesh executed war criminal Mohammad Kamaruzzaman on Saturday.
The cases of Jamaat-e-Islami’s Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujaheed and BNP’s Salauddin Quader Chowdhury are leading the Appellate Division’s cause list.
They were expected to be heard last Tuesday, but the day’s hearing ended before they could be brought up.
Nine war crimes cases await the top court’s verdict.
Altogether 14 such cases made their way to the appeals court and final verdicts have been issued in three of them.
Death sentences of Jamaat’s assistant
secretaries general Abdul Quader Molla Kamaruzzaman have been carried out. Jamaat’s Executive Council Member Delwar Hossain Sayedee’s death penalty was commuted to a life imprisonment.
But an appeal for a review has not been resolved since the full verdict is yet to be published.
Jamaat’s Liberation War-time chief Ghulam Azam and BNP’s former minister Abdul Alim died during the trial.
The Supreme Court declared their appeal proceedings defunct.
Bangladesh put suspected war criminals on trial after the government set up a special tribunal in 2010. A second one was formed two years later to expedite the trials.
An estimated three million people were killed and over 200,000 women raped during the Liberation War in 1971. About 10 million people were forced to seek refuge in India.
The Jamaat, which came out strongly in support of a united, non-secular and Bengali-hating Pakistan, is accused of perpetrating war crimes.
