A Bangladesh War Crimes Tribunal on Tuesday Oct 1,2013 awarded death penalty to Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, a top ranking opposition leader, for murder and genocide during the country’s Liberation War in 1971
Salauddin Quader Chowdhury(64) received death penalty for four charges, including genocide; 20-years for three charges; and five-years each for two other charges
Salauddin Quader Chowdhury is the first sitting MP to be convicted at the war crime tribunals
Six others, convicted earlier, so were from the Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) party.
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