Dhaka: A top leader of Bangladesh's fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami was on Thursday sentenced to death for mass murder and "crimes against humanity" he committed during the 1971 liberation war against Pakistan, becoming the fourth person to be convicted in the case.
A special Bangladeshi tribunal handed down death penalty to Muhammad Kuamaruzzaman for collaborating in the mass murder of 164 unarmed civilians in Sohagpur village on July 25, 1971, The Daily Star reported.
"He will be hanged by neck until he is dead," chairman of the three-judge International Crimes Tribunal-2 Justice Obaidul Hassan pronounced as the convict was escorted to the dock at the crowded courtroom.
Kuamruzzaman, 60, an assistant secretary general of Jamaat, is the fourth accused who was convicted for the 1971 war crimes siding with Pakistani troops while his party was opposed to Bangladesh's independence....
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Dhaka: Bangladesh police on Thursday arrested the editor of the Bengali daily 'Amar Desh', a pro-opposition newspaper, on charges of sedition and inciting religious tension. Plainclothesmen picked up Mahmudur Rahman in a raid on the newspaper office at Karwan Bazar area and police said he was taken away for initial interrogation. Police said Rahman had been arrested on the basis of evidence obtained after investigations on various charges including cyber...
06:31 PM, Apr 11, 2013
Dhaka: Members of a hardline Muslim group in Bangladesh on Saturday held rally across Dhaka demanding enactment of anti-blasphemy laws to punish people who insult Islam. The massive rally in Dhaka took place amid heightened security. The protestors targeted bloggers who have held street protests demanding execution for convicted war criminals. In a separate incident, a ruling party supporter has been killed and 15 others injured in the clashes between...
05:17 PM, Apr 07, 2013
42 years after Bangladesh was liberated, it is resonating with nationalist chants that are demanding hanging of war criminals and are looking for closure to the country's darkest chapter. ...
04:42 PM, Mar 17, 2013
Bangladesh's main opposition BNP and its ally Jamaat-E-Islami have once again called for nationwide bandh and protest on Sunday, demanding death penalty for those found guilty of war crimes in 1971. However, normalcy prevailed in Dhaka barring few pockets. ...
12:40 PM, Mar 10, 2013
Protesters clashed with police for the second day on Friday as the death toll rose to at least 44 from violence triggered by a death sentence given to an Islamic party leader for crimes linked to Bangladesh's 1971 independence war, police said. ...
08:00 AM, Mar 02, 2013
Bangladesh on Friday deployed paramilitary border guards to beef up security after a top Islamist opposition leader was sentenced to death, sparking nationwide riots that killed at least 42 people. "Our troops were deployed in 15 troubled districts in aide of civil administration... BGB (Border Guard Bangladesh) has been kept alert so it could move immediately wherever they are required," BGB chief major General Aziz Ahmed told reporters. ...
03:35 PM, Mar 01, 2013
Two people were killed on Saturday in continuing violence in Bangladesh as supporters of the Jamaat-e-Islami party clashed with police while thousands of anti-Islamist protestors vowed to carry on their street campaign demanding death penalty for radical leaders being tried for alleged war crimes. ...
11:07 PM, Feb 23, 2013
Hundreds of thousands of Bangladeshis have been thronging Shahbagh, a Dhaka landmark, demanding death sentence for 1971 War criminal Abdul Quader Mollah of the Jamaat-e-Islami. Following the murder of blogger Rajib who spearheaded the agitation, the gathering has grown manifold and the sentiments have been further galvanised. CNN-IBN's senior editor Suhasini Haidar joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the massive agitations in Dhaka over the 1971 War Crimes trials....
06:32 PM, Feb 18, 2013
What is underlying these protests and calls for counter strikes and meetings by the Jamaat is the secular-Islamist clash in Bangladesh. The Islamists who had seen much better days when Bangladesh was in army hands have seen their control slipping over the last decade. ...
06:05 PM, Feb 18, 2013
Over one lakh protesters took to the streets in Dhaka after the murder of a blogger, demanding death penalty for those found guilty of war crimes in 1971. "They have no right to do politics in our country because they are using religion in our political scenario which is total hypocrisy. The big message is we want social, economical and cultural freedom," said one protester. ...
11:36 AM, Feb 17, 2013
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02:45 PM, Feb 16, 2013
Several people were injured on Wednesday after violence gripped the Bangladeshi capital following fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami activists' violent protests at several places to protest the ongoing 1971 war trials. ...
08:57 PM, Feb 13, 2013
Bangladesh on Tuesday intensified security and ordered stern action against "troublemakers" after activists of the fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami indulged in violence and attacked police to demand halting of the 1971 war crimes trial of their leaders. Dozens of policemen, 21 of them in Dhaka, were injured as the extreme right wing activists launched attacks with homemade bombs in the capital, in southwestern Chittagong and several northwestern districts on Monday. ...
08:15 PM, Jan 29, 2013
Pakistan is at present in a worse situation than it was in 1971, said disgraced nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan, warning that "the day will not be far off when we disintegrate again" if social evils are not rectified soon. ...
11:18 AM, Dec 17, 2012
New Delhi: A midnight summit between Indira Gandhi and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Bhutto pleading with Gandhi to free 93,000 Pakistani prisoners of war, a failed Kashmir deal... The Simla accord, which marks its 40th anniversary on July 3, may be a distant echo today but its spirit of resolving all issues bilaterally seems to have prevailed. A resolution of the Kashmir dispute, the core strategic objective of the so-called "tacit...
11:25 AM, Jul 02, 2012
New Delhi: Veteran diplomat Henry Kissinger, the architect of the US' historic opening to China, has denied that that the US struck a secret pact with India to prevent an attack on West Pakistan in 1971. Known in India for unflattering comments on former prime minister Indira Gandhi, he sought to correct the picture, saying he always thought she was "an extremely strong and far-sighted woman". "India and the former...
12:09 PM, Mar 17, 2012
New Delhi: Around 10 days before war broke out between India and Pakistan in 1971, the then President of Pakistan Yahya Khan had given an inkling of his intentions to attack this country after taking a few drinks with an American journalist. Yahya had told the journalist on the day of their meeting that he would be "at the front within 10 days" when the American talked about getting back...
12:30 PM, Jan 16, 2012
New Delhi: Forty years to this day, India fought and won a war that would change the map of the world forever, the war of 1971 that saw the liberation of Bangladesh from Pakistan. There were two Param Virs whose courage in the face of death has inspired the generation that followed. Lt Khetrapal, who was 21-years-old at the time, was commissioned to the Army just six months before the...
09:19 AM, Dec 16, 2011
On the 40th anniversary of the Indo-Pak war, CNN-IBN talks to the heroes of the 1971 war. ...
11:59 PM, Dec 15, 2011
