The head of Bangladesh's largest Islamist party
has been sentenced to death on Wednesday Oct 29,2014 for war crimes committed during the
independence war against Pakistan in 1971.
Motiur Rahman Nizami(71) faced 16 charges including genocide, murder, torture and rape.
A state prosecutor said the sentence reflected the "gravity of the crimes".
The war crimes court found
Motiur Rahman Nizami, 71, guilty of murder, rape and looting during
Bangladesh's war of independence against Pakistan in 1971 when he was
head of a ruthless militia.
The
court sentenced Nizami, head of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, to "hang by
the neck until his death" for orchestrating the killing of top
professors, writers and doctors during the conflict.
A state prosecutor said the sentence reflected the "gravity of the crimes".
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