Bangladesh hangs Jamaat leader for war crimes

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@Shamraz_Khan

May the justice prevail.

Bangladesh hangs Jamaat leader for war crimes - DAWN.COM

DHAKA: Bangladesh on Thursday hanged Abdul Quader Molla, a top Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) leader known as the “Butcher of Mirpur," making him the first person to be put to death for massacres committed during the country’s bloody 1971 war of independence.

“The execution has been carried out,” deputy law minister Quamrul Islam told AFP, adding that Abdul Quader Molla, 65, a senior leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, was hanged at 10.01 pm (1601 GMT) in a jail in the capital Dhaka.

The hanging took place just hours after the country’s Supreme Court dismissed Molla’s appeal for a final review of his death sentence, removing the last legal option against his execution.

The wife and children of Molla met the Jamaat-e-Islami leader at a jail in Dhaka for one last time hours before the execution, and found him to be “calm.”

“He has told us that he is proud to be a martyr for the cause of Islamic movement in the country,” Molla’s son Hasan Jamil told AFP after meeting his father.

Security has also been tightened outside the jail gate and in the capital Dhaka, with the authorities deploying paramilitary border guards in key flashpoints.

Islamists and opposition protesters armed with crude bombs and rocks clashed with police in riots in several cities across the country after the Supreme Court announced the brief verdict paving the way for the execution.

Molla was originally set to be hanged on Tuesday night after he refused to seek presidential clemency.

But in a night of high drama a judge stayed the hanging just 90 minutes before the scheduled execution, amid international concern over the fairness of the war crime trials of mainly opposition leaders.

Molla was found to have been a leader of a pro-Pakistan militia which fought against the country’s independence and killed some of Bangladesh’s top professors, doctors, writers and journalists.

A key opposition official, he was convicted of rape, murder and mass murder, including the killing of more than 350 unarmed civilians. Prosecutors described him as the “Butcher of Mirpur,” a Dhaka suburb where he committed most of the atrocities.

Hundreds of secular protesters erupted in celebration hearing the news of the execution. They have been camping at Shahbagh square in Dhaka since Tuesday night, shouting slogans including: “Hang Quader Molla, hang war criminals.”

Unfortunately their courts were even worse than ours, which really is saying something, so the case was a sham.

[TS]

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See what the BanglaDeshi lawyer says about the case in the above video. The first 10 minutes.
He basically says that there is no precedence in the judicial history of the whole world, in the way they pulled off the execution sentence.

[Iconoclast]

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More about these sham trials by rauf klasra
http://www.bashaoorpakistan.com/columns/rauf-klasra/akela-shakhs-kab-tak-larta-rauf-klasra/

[diwana]

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@TS

An interesting discussion with JI BD’s lawyer from Bangladesh, Liyaquat Jatoi JI, and Babar Awan:

Few observations from this video.

Liaqat baloch could not clearly answer the questions. Kept changing his position and negated himself a few times with contradictions.

When asked why JI even took arms when it was the role of Army? He said civilians have right to defend…

He could not answer or refute why Al-Shams and Al-Badr (or Razakar?) killed civilians.

When asked why not make a political group in Baluchistan also, he said Army is doing operation and we are against that…Something like that.

Both on Kashmir and Afghanistan issues he kept going away from the questions asked and could not commit.

Everyone knows they were in bed with Zia and US, on Afghanistan issue…and recruited people in the name of Islam. But their own people have killed other Muslims.

He deflected the question on Munawwar Hassan comments.

Regardless of what JI says, it has no real policy and no clear/clean history. They just create noise.

They always won elections based on Karachi, but never in federal cabinet supported Karachiites.

[kakaballi]

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Bangladesh: Death Sentence Violates Fair Trial Standards | Human Rights Watch

…“Human Rights Watch has long called for justice for the 1971 atrocities, but justice requires fair trials and due process of law,” said Brad Adams, Asia Director. “Changing the law and applying it retroactively after a trial offends basic notions of a fair trial under international law.”…

[kchughtai]

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Unfortunately their courts were even worse than ours, which really is saying something, so the case was a sham.

understandably since they were once part of us.

[Pakistani_Prince]

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The guy who is hanged was of the view that both Pakistan and Bangladesh should live together, whereas others were in favour of independent Bangladesh. Baccha Khan was also against the creataion of Pakistan and he left no stone unturned to stop it. Does it mean we should hang him or his offspring?

[ajazali]

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Mujhahideen that want Kashmir as part of Pakistan are heroes of Pakistan today.
One day when Kashmir will be liberated, they will be hanged to death, then for some hypocrites, these heroes will become criminals.