Mir
Quasem Ali(63),a top Islamist
party leader convicted of war crimes involving Bangladesh's 1971
independence war against Pakistan has been executed.
Mir
Quasem Ali(63) a key financier of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, was
killed at Kashimpur Central Jail on the outskirts of the capital, for
murder, confinement, torture and incitement to religious hatred during
the war.
The
execution took place amid a spate of militant attacks in the
Muslim-majority nation, the most serious on July 1,2016 when gunmen stormed a
cafe in Dhaka's diplomatic quarter and killed 20 hostages, most of them
foreigners.
The war
crimes tribunal set up by prime minister Sheikh Hasina in 2010 has
sparked violence and drawn criticism from opposition politicians, who
say it is targeting her political foes. The government denies the
accusations.
Human
rights groups say the tribunal's procedures fall short of international
standards, but the government rejects that assertion, and the trials
are supported by many Bangladeshis.
Since December 2013, five
Jamaat leaders, including former top leader Motiur Rahman Nizami, and a
leader of the main opposition party, have been executed for war crimes
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