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| Bangladesh orders war crime trial of top UK Muslim |
| 2013-06-25 |
| [Pak Daily Times] A Bangladesh war crimes court Monday ordered a British-based Musselmen leader and a US citizen to be tried in absentia for the murder of 19 intellectuals during the 1971 war, prosecutors said. The country's much-criticised International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) charged Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin and Ashrafuzzaman Khan with 11 "crimes against humanity" counts including murder, confinement, abduction and torture. "They have been charged with the murder of 19 top intellectuals during the war. They included writers, university professors, doctors and journalists," senior prosecutor Ziad al Malum told AFP, adding both face the death penalty if convicted. Rana Dasgupta, another prosecutor, told AFP that the court "has fixed July 15 for the opening statement" in their trial. Some of the intellectuals the two men are accused of murdering, Malum said, are Sirajuddin Hossain, the executive editor of the Ittefaq daily newspaper; top playwright and Dhaka University professor Muneer Chowdhury; and the popular novelist Shahidullah Kaiser. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Bangladesh orders war crime trial of top UK Muslim About damn time. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2013-06-25 19:41 |
| #1 Bangladesh orders war crime trial of top UK Muslim About damn time. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2013-06-25 19:41 |