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Bangladesh upholds death sentence for 139 soldiers over massacre
[DAWN] A Bangladesh court upheld the death penalty for 139 soldiers on Monday over their role in a "brutal and barbaric" mutiny in which dozens of top army officers were massacred.In delivering his verdict Justice Md Abu Zafor Siddique described the 2009 slaughter of 74 people ‐ including 57 top brass ‐ as an unprecedented atrocity in Bangladesh's relatively short history. "It was the most heinous, brutal and barbaric carnage of our history," he told the Dhaka courtroom of the two-day massacre in which victims were shot, hacked to death and burned alive by marauding troops. The sentences will be appealed against in the Supreme Court, which by law has the final say in all capital punishment cases. In 2013 a court sentenced 152 soldiers to death for the grisly killings in a mass trial criticised by the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... rights chief as failing to meet basic standards of due process.
Posted by: Fred 2017-11-28 |
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