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Bangladesh Executes Islamist Leader Motiur Rahman Nizami for War Crimes

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Bangladesh executed on Wednesday 73-year-old Islamist leader, Motiur Rahman Nizami, for war crimes committed during the 1971 civil war in Pakistan, media... 11.05.2016, Sputnik International

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Bangladesh Executes Islamist Leader Motiur Rahman Nizami for War Crimes

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Bangladesh executed on Wednesday 73-year-old Islamist leader, Motiur Rahman Nizami, for war crimes committed during the 1971 civil war in Pakistan, media reported.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Nizami was hanged at the central jail of the Bangladesh capital of Dhaka just after midnight local time on Wednesday (18:01 GMT Tuesday) for genocide, rape and torture, Al Jazeera broadcaster said.

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The leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami Islamic political party was sentenced to death in October 2014. On Thursday, the Bangladesh Supreme Court rejected Nizami's plea to review the capital punishment.

A civil war broke out in Pakistan in 1971, which was divided in two parts at the time, after West Pakistan launched a military operation in East Pakistan that was seeking independence.