Liakat, Aminul get death penalty for crimes in 1971
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Staff Correspondent: Liakat Ali, former president of Lakhai upazila unit of Awami League in Habiganj, and Aminul Islam alias Rajab Ali of Kishoreganj have been rewarded with death penalty for crimes committed during the Liberation War in 1971.
A three-member bench of the International Crimes Tribunal-1 led by Justice Md Shahinur Islam pronounced the verdict on Monday noon.
The two convicted are now on the run.
The tribunal on November 1, 2016 framed seven charges against the two, after prosecution on May 3 that year pressed the charges against them.
The charges against them are: acts of genocide killing 43 Hindu men in Lakhai's Krishnapur; killing nine Hindu men in Chandipur and 26 Hindu men in Gadainagar; act of genocide in Krishnapur, Chandipur and Gadainagar leaving eight Hindu men dead; killing of one Rangu Mia in Nasirnagar; killing of five men in Sabiyanagar in Astogram; and killing of 10 other men in the same village.
Prosecution produced 17 witnesses during trial while the defence declined to produce any.
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