Saturday, 21 November 2015

Bangladesh hangs opposition leaders for war crimes


Two senior Bangladeshi opposition leaders were executed early Sunday for war crimes committed during the 1971 independence war with Pakistan after their last-ditch pleas for clemency were rejected, a minister said.

“Both of them have been hanged. The execution took place at 00:45am (1845 GMT Saturday),” Justice Minister Anisul Huq told AFP after Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid and Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury lost their final bid to escape the gallows.

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