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Strong Protest in #Bangladesh against verdict of Hang by ICT. pic.twitter.com/olzxB7iZSa
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| At least 30 people are reported to have been killed and hundreds injured in protests in Bangladesh after a member of the opposition was sentenced to death for war crimes.
Delwar Hossain Sayedee, 73, is the third prominent figure from Jamaat-e-Islami party to be found guilty of mass killings by a court set up to investigate abuses during the country’s 1971 war of independence from Pakistan. Jamaat, the country’s largest Islamist party, called for a 48-hour national strike on Sunday, amid clashes between opposition supporters and police that left nearly 200 people injured in more than a dozen districts across the country. Dhaka, the Bangladeshi capital, was tense in the run-up to the verdict. About 10,000 policemen were on patrol and the government also deployed border guards as reinforcement to prevent violence. Schools and shops were shut and roads in Dhaka and inter-city motorways were empty.  mighty2025 Mighty 5 hrs Mass killing charges Sayedee, vice-president of Jamaat, was found guilty of charges of mass killing, rape, arson, looting and religious persecution during the liberation war, lawyers and tribunal officials said on Thursday. “The verdict has appropriately demonstrated justice. We are happy,” Haider Ali, state prosecutor, said. Lawyers for Sayedee boycotted the tribunal during the verdict. “I didn’t commit any crime and the judges are not giving the verdict from the core of their heart,” he told the court. He had previously denied the allegations and said the charges were politically motivated. Jamaat has denounced the trial. Earlier this month, the tribunal sentenced Abdul Qader Molla, Jamaat’s assistant secretary general, to life imprisonment, leading to deadly protests that left 16 people dead.  Govt. is using armed forces to suppress opposition voices, 70 protesters has been killed so far #SaveBangladesh
Secular protests Molla’s verdict enraged secular protesters, tens of thousands of whom have since poured onto Dhaka’s Shahbag Square to reject the “lighter sentence” and demand the execution of Jamaat leaders. Another Jamaat leader, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, was sentenced to death in absentia last month. Seven other top leaders of Jamaat are on trial for their alleged role in the atrocities during the liberation war. Sheikh Hasina Wajed, the Bangladesh prime minister, set up the tribunal in 2010 to investigate abuses during the independence war that, by many accounts, claimed about three million lives and during which thousands of Bengali women were raped. The tribunal, a domestic body with no international oversight, has been criticised by the opposition as targeting its members. But the scale of recent secular protests show a large section of Bangladeshis support moves to punish those linked to atrocities during the liberation war.
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Dhaka: At least 34 people were killed in Bangladesh in a wave of violence on Thursday as Islamists reacted furiously to a ruling that one of their leaders must hang for war crimes during the 1971 independence conflict. At least 23 of them were shot in clashes between police and protesters that erupted after Delwar Hossain Sayedee, the Jamaat-e-Islami party’s vice president, was found guilty of war crimes, including murder, arson and rape. Sayedee is the third person to be convicted by the controversial domestic tribunal whose previous verdicts have also been met with outrage from Islamists who say the process is more about score settling than delivering justice.
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 Raihan Chowdhury, MD 8 hrs Thursday’s death toll was compiled by sources after talking to police in the 15 districts where protests turned deadly. They were the most violent political clashes in more than two decades in the impoverished country’s history. The latest unrest brought the overall death toll to 50 since the first verdict was delivered on January 21. Among Thursday’s dead were four policemen, two of whom were beaten to death after protesters hurled small homemade bombs at a police station in Gaibandha in Bangladesh’s north and attacked it with sticks, local police chief Monjur Rahman said. “At least 10,000 Jamaat supporters attacked us. We were forced to open fire,” Rahman told sources. About 300 people, including scores of policemen, were also injured, doctors, police and local media said. Police also reported attacks on several Hindu homes and temples by Islamists in the southern Noakhali and Chittagong districts. One old Hindu man was killed in the attack in Chittagong, district police chief Hafiz Akter told sources.  RakshandaRuhi Rakshanda Rahman 7 hrs Security forces had been braced for trouble ahead of the verdict against Sayedee, who reacted to the judgment by saying it had been influenced by “atheists” and pro-government protesters who have been demanding his execution. Sayedee, now best known in Bangladesh as a firebrand preacher, was convicted for setting ablaze 25 houses in a Hindu village and abetting the murders of two people including a Hindu man, according to a copy of the verdict. He led a pro-Pakistani militia who abducted three Hindu sisters and raped them for three days at a Pakistani camp, said the verdict. He also forced at least 100 Hindus to convert to Islam and made them say Islamic prayers, it added. His lawyer Tajul Islam described the verdict as “a gross miscarriage of justice”, adding that Sayedee did not live in the town at the time when the alleged crimes took place. “It’s a case of mistaken identity. We’re stunned. We’re going to appeal the verdict,” he told sources. Under a newly amended war crimes law, the appeal process must be completed within 90 days, meaning Sayedee would be hanged later this year if the country’s highest court upholds the verdict.  supen rama 7 hrs Rival protesters at a central Dhaka intersection erupted in jubilation as news of Sayedee’s sentence filtered through. “We’ve been waiting for this day for the last four decades,” a protester told Somoy TV. There was no immediate reaction from Jamaat to the verdict, but the party has enforced a nationwide strike demanding a halt to the trials. The cases against eight more Jamaat leaders are still being heard. Earlier this month, the tribunal a local court with no international oversight sentenced Jamaat’s assistant secretary general Abdul Quader Molla to life imprisonment. While angering Jamaat supporters, that verdict also enraged secular protesters, tens of thousands of whom have since poured onto the Shahbag intersection in central Dhaka to demand the execution of Jamaat leaders. In January the tribunal handed down its first verdict when it sentenced fugitive Muslim TV preacher Maolana Abul Kalam Azad to death. The tribunal has been tainted by controversies and allegations that it is targeting only the opposition with trumped-up charges. Rights groups say its legal procedures fall short of international standards. A judge presiding over Sayedee’s case resigned after leaked internet calls showed there was collusion between him and the prosecution. A key defence witness was also abducted from the court premises by policemen, allege Sayedee’s lawyers. The government rejects the accusations, saying the tribunal is independent and the trials are fair and necessary to heal the wounds of the war that it says killed three million people. It accuses Jamaat leaders of being part of pro-Pakistani militias blamed for much of the 1971 carnage. Independent estimates put the war toll much lower, between 300,000 and 500,000. |
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