MOSCOW (Sputnik) — In 2013, a domestic war crimes tribunal found Kamaruzzaman guilty on five out of seven charges of crimes against humanity, including the murder and torture of unarmed civilians.
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.
Kamaruzzaman was one the leaders of the Jamaat-e-Islami Islamist political party, that during the war opposed Bengali independence and supported the West Pakistani army. He played a prominent role in the massacre of at least 120 unarmed farmers in a remote village.
In 2013, Bangladesh's High Court declared Jamaat-e-Islami party illegal.
Several members of Jamaat-e-Islami have been sentenced to death for war crimes. Kamaruzzaman is the second to be executed after an assistant secretary general of the party was hanged in 2013.
