Another Bangladesh Islamist leader sentenced to hang for war crimes

DHAKA, Nov. 2 (NsNewsWire) — A Bangladesh court Sunday sentenced to death the leader of the country’s largest Islamist party for war crimes.

The war crimes tribunal found Mir Quasem Ali, Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami party’s central executive committee member, guilty of mass murder, rape and looting during Bangladesh’s war of independence against Pakistan in 1971.

He led the notorious Al-Badr, an auxiliary militia force “which took part in many heinous crimes”.

The International Crimes Tribunal-2 led by Justice Obaidul Hassan sentenced Ali to “hang by the neck until his death”.

Ali’s verdict came barely a day after the head of Al-Badr and Jamaat chief Motiur Rahman Nizami was sentenced to death by ICT-1.