TIA NEWS
Bangladesh authorities today hanged Jamaat-e-Islami chief Motiur Rahman Nizami for committing war crimes during the country’s 1971 Liberation War.
Police said, 73-year old Nizami was hanged at Dhaka Central Jail midnight last night. He is the senior most Islamist to be executed in Bangladesh for war crimes during the liberation war against Pakistan.
Nizami’s final appeal against his death sentence was rejected by the apex court on May 5. A former minister in previous BNP-led Khaleda Zia government, Nizami was in jail since 2010, when he was arrested for war crimes.
He was given capital punishment in October 2014 by the international crimes tribunal. He was particularly found guilty of systematic killings of over 450 people alone in his own village. With his execution, Nizami becomes the fifth top perpetrator to be hanged for the war crimes against humanity since the trial process began six years ago.
According to BSS news, Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami, who was executed in the early hours of today, was buried at his ancestral home in Monmothpur village under Santhia upazila here this morning amid tight security.
Top leader of war criminals Nizami was executed at the Dhaka central Jail around 12:10 am today for his crimes against humanity during the War of Liberation of Bangladesh in 1971.
Later, Deputy Jailer of Dhaka Central Jail Majharul Islam handed over Nizami’s body to his son. The ambulance carrying the body came out of Dhaka Central Jail around 1:30am and subsequently reached Pabna at about 6:25 am.