Jammat e Islami MP sentenced to death for complicity in mass killings

Q.  On 18th Feb’15, in Bangladesh, the International War Crimes Tribunal sentenced former MP Maulana Abdus Subhan to death for crimes against humanity during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War. Which party does he lead?
- Published on 24 Feb 15

a. Bangladesh Nationalist Party
b. Bangladesh Awam League
c. Jamat-e-Dawa
d. Jamat-e-Islami

ANSWER: Jamat-e-Islami
 
Jamaat-e-Islami leader was sentenced to death in Bangladesh. The 79-year old incumbent Vice-President of Jamaat-e-Islami was the Vice-Chairman of the infamous Peace Committee in Pabna, western Bangladesh, which collaborated with the Pakistani army to perpetrate crimes during the Liberation War. He was charged on nine counts of war crimes including genocide, murder, looting, arson, abduction, torture, and setting houses on fire in Pabna.

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