Valin Posted April 11, 2015 Share Posted April 11, 2015 AFP: Shafiqul Alam Apr. 11 2015 Bangladesh is set to hang a top Islamist leader Saturday for overseeing a massacre during the nation's 1971 independence war, officials said, after he refused to seek clemency from the president. Mohammad Kamaruzzaman, the third most senior figure in the Islamist opposition Jamaat-e-Islami party, is due to be executed on Saturday night after his hanging was postponed at the last minute. No official reason was given for the delay on Friday, but junior home minister Asaduzzaman Khan said the 62-year-old will soon be executed in the capital's main jail. "The hanging of Kamaruzzaman... will take place today (Saturday)," Khan said in remarks published by the mass circulation Bengali daily Prothom Alo. Kamaruzzaman was convicted of abduction, torture and mass murder as one of the leaders of a pro-Pakistan militia that killed thousands of people during Bangladesh's war of independence. The United Nations on Wednesday urged Bangladesh not to carry out the sentence, saying his trial did not meet "fair international" standards. (Snip) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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