Bangladesh executes two opposition leaders for 1971 war crimes
Source: ABC (Australia)
Bangladesh executed two opposition leaders on Sunday for war crimes committed during the 1971 war to break away from Pakistan, a senior police official says, in a move likely to draw an angry reaction from supporters.
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Islamist opposition leader Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid and Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, a legislator in former prime minister Khaleda Zia's Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), were hanged shortly after president Abdul Hamid rejected their appeals for clemency.
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Mujahid was found guilty of five charges including torture and the murders of intellectuals and minority Hindus while he commanded Al Badr, an auxiliary force of the Pakistani army, which operated in Bangladesh during the war.
Chowdhur was convicted in October 2013 on charges of genocide, religious persecution, abduction and torture during the war.
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