Bangladesh Jamaat chief sentenced to death for war crimes

[Lord ZeN]

Terrorism don't Pay ... Good work BD ..

 

[monitor]

Indeed. And let's hope that Pakistan brings the perpetrators of Op searchlight and other massacres to justice as well.

Especially Pak's armymen who used to select people to be killed depending on their religion, after peeking into their lungis:

this picture have opinion that it is a Indian soldier searching in Jassor area from a rajakar for weapons .
there is no denying that atrocity did happened in 71 but who were directly involve are out of justice but who supported politically the unity of Pakistan are now under trial . if this trial were free and fair and the justice are non partisan then the verdict might differ as there are lot of contradiction in the witness i have that in previous post in bangla .

 

[the just]

So,after the razakars run out who will be next in line?All the officers,gov job holders,people from various classes of society who didn't want to breakup from Pakistan!!And if they are dead?Their wives,children ,relatives?
Wow good going....

 

[Green Arrow]

It will cause more political turmoil in the country now

 

[Imran Khan]

i am enjoing it in fact its digging deep just carry on BD there are high chances of armed Islamist movements rise in BD after all these policies . no sympathy with any mullah but wanna see how BD forces tackle tahreek e taliban bangladesh in future

 

[AugenBlick]

i am enjoing it in fact its digging deep just carry on BD there are high chances of armed Islamist movements rise in BD after all these policies . no sympathy with any mullah but wanna see how BD forces tackle tahreek e taliban bangladesh in future

No chance ... anyone not backed by india can only come through elections!!!!!
Not even army coup can succeed

 

[greatone]

Muahaha hoping for a public execution to be telecast on tv live.
Jamati terrorists have no place in society or sympathy.

 

[Cat Shannon]

what a coincidence, at the age of 71 getting the sentence for atrocities in 71.

his face was seen on the moon ! this guy, no ?

Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha !!!!!

Guys like these have killed bengalis kept them divided with religion.

may truely he be a slave of his master even in jannat !

 

[khair_ctg]

BD is doing a good thing by eliminating these religious nutjobs.

you mean Indian proxy government eliminating pro-independence patriots

 

[khair_ctg]

I have mixed feelings. Al Badr militias were responsible for targetted killings of un-armed pro-freedom intellectuals such as doctors, teachers and writers.

As the head of the org - I support his death sentence.

On the other hand - this trial is farce with made up witnesses and Govt. influenced Judge. and as a minister he was successful and very strict to corruptions.

in short - good man but ended up in the losing side of the war.

so you basically support this sentence. what makes you say those were "pro-freedom" when they were in fact pro-Indian domination? Indian-trained factions were butchering pro-United Pakistan people en masse in what was an Indo-Soviet operation on a hapless basket case we call Bangladesh. have you considered it was United Pak's responsibility to tackle those terrorists rather than that it was some kind of acquired taste for United Pak govt to kill "doctors and writers"?

in 1971 only a handful few far leftists wanted to come under Indian control, excluding those who tried to be on the 'Bengali side' after post-March 26.

ultimately the future of the basket case of a land Bangladesh was a forgone conclusion right in 1947 when our map was drawn.

If hes guilty - Good Job !

I hope the Mukhti Bahini and others who participated in the wanton slaughter of Biharis, West-Pakistanis and Pro-Pakistan Bengalis ought to be brought to justice as well !

this is Hindutva playground. those terrorists who were slaughtering are the badshahs here.

he's "guilty" because he is the head of a party that is openly in favour of seeing this land as sovereign rather than an Indian province

 

[sree45]

you mean Indian proxy government eliminating pro-independence patriots

Exactlllyyyy!!!

 

[kobiraaz]

Indeed. And let's hope that Pakistan brings the perpetrators of Op searchlight and other massacres to justice as well.

Especially Pak's armymen who used to select people to be killed depending on their religion, after peeking into their lungis:

That is an Indian soldier dude. However, this photo has been used to blame pakis since 1971.

 

[janon]

That is an Indian soldier dude. However, this photo has been used to blame pakis since 1971.

The point still stands, that all the Pak armymen who carried out Op searchlight and other massacres and rapes and genocide should also be tried and hung. At least B'desh is doing its part, hanging jamatis and razakars.

 

[Kinetic]

Bangladesh Jamaat chief sentenced to death for war crimes
By AFP
Published: October 29, 2014

Motiur Rahman Nizami. PHOTO: REUTERS

DHAKA: A Bangladesh war crimes court on Wednesday handed a death sentence to the leader of Jamaat-e-Islami in a long-awaited verdict.

A judge found Motiur Rahman Nizami, 71, guilty of murder, rape and looting during Bangladesh’s 1971 war and sentenced him “to hang by the neck until his death”.

Security was tightened across Bangladesh ahead of the long-awaited verdict, amid fears that it will spark a new round of bloodshed.

Similar judgement against several of his senior lieutenants in the Jamaat-e-Islami party plunged Bangladesh into one of its worst crisis last year as tens of thousands of supporters fought with police.

More than 500 people died in the unrest and subsequent political violence ahead of disputed polls in January.

Junior home minister Asaduzzaman Khan said “all sorts of security measures have been taken across the country” amid fears that a death sentence could unleash a new bout of bloodletting.

While it was effectively banned from taking part in this year’s legislative elections, Jamaat has millions of activists who have staged shows of strength on the streets of Dhaka and other major cities in the aftermath of the previous verdicts.

“We won’t tolerate any attempt to create instability or chaos,” Khan told reporters on Tuesday.

Extra police and border guards have been deployed in the capital and in other major cities, security officials said.

Nizami arrived at the court in Dhaka early Wednesday flanked by heavy security, while hundreds of officers surrounded the complex.

Dozens of former “freedom fighters”, who battled in 1971, also gathered outside the court, demanding Nizami’s execution.

The verdict, originally scheduled for June, was postponed at the 11th hour because Nizami was suffering from high blood pressure.

“We are finally going to get the long-awaited verdict,” prosecutor Tureen Afroz told AFP. “We hope he will be sentenced to death for his crimes during the war.”

As the leader of now defunct Islami Chhatra Sangha (ICS), prosecutors say that Nizami turned the then student wing of Jamaat into a militia which killed professors, writers, doctors and journalists.

The aim was to make the fledgling nation an “intellectual cripple”, prosecutor Mohammad Ali said.

“When the war was nearing an end, as the chief commander of al Badr he ordered a ‘hit list’ based on which top intellectuals were abducted and killed,” he said.

Prosecutors say Nizami, as leader of al Badr, either personally carried out or ordered the deaths of nearly 600 Bangladeshis.

Nizami is already on death row after being sentenced to hang in January for trafficking weapons and trying to ship them to a rebel group in northeast India.

Defence lawyers say Nizami, Jamaat’s leader since 2000, was prosecuted for war crimes as part of a government witch-hunt against its opponents.

“He was a leader of the ICS but he never headed al Badr,” his son and lawyer Nazib Momen told AFP, adding his name was not in the list of war criminals prepared by the post-independence government.

Since it was established by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s government in 2010, the self-styled International Crimes Tribunal has sentenced around a dozen opposition leaders for war crimes.

Rights groups have criticised the trials, saying they fall short of international standards and lack any international oversight.

The country’s secular government maintains the trials are needed to heal the wounds of the conflict that it says killed three million people.

Independent researchers estimate that between 300,000 and 500,000 people died.

Another war criminal going to meet its destiny. Good.

Indeed. And let's hope that Pakistan brings the perpetrators of Op searchlight and other massacres to justice as well.

Especially Pak's armymen who used to select people to be killed depending on their religion, after peeking into their lungis:

Hmm

 

[Kinetic]

so you basically support this sentence. what makes you say those were "pro-freedom" when they were in fact pro-Indian domination? Indian-trained factions were butchering pro-United Pakistan people en masse in what was an Indo-Soviet operation on a hapless basket case we call Bangladesh. have you considered it was United Pak's responsibility to tackle those terrorists rather than that it was some kind of acquired taste for United Pak govt to kill "doctors and writers"?

in 1971 only a handful few far leftists wanted to come under Indian control, excluding those who tried to be on the 'Bengali side' after post-March 26.

ultimately the future of the basket case of a land Bangladesh was a forgone conclusion right in 1947 when our map was drawn.

this is Hindutva playground. those terrorists who were slaughtering are the badshahs here.

he's "guilty" because he is the head of a party that is openly in favour of seeing this land as sovereign rather than an Indian province

Sovereign!! It was east Pakistan and people were killed like insects. Read it,

Isn't this suprising in 2014... we have the same religious philosophy and same razakars like 1971!!