Bangladesh Hangs Islamist Mir Quasem Ali for 1971 War Crimes
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World News • September 2016 • Views: 1,147
A leader and financial backer of the biggest Islamist party in Bangladesh has been executed for war crimes committed during the war of independence from Pakistan in 1971.
Media tycoon Mir Quasem Ali, 63, of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, was sentenced to death two years ago.
He had been convicted of offences including murder and torture.
The tycoon was hanged at a high-security prison outside Dhaka on Saturday evening.
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