Bangladesh hangs 2 top opposition leaders for war crimes

November 22, 2015 02:24

Two top Bangladeshi opposition leaders were hanged tonight for war crimes committed during the 1971 war of independence against Pakistan after the country's President rejected their last-ditch mercy petitions

to escape the gallows.

Fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary-General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid, 67, and BNP leader Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury, 66, were hanged at Dhaka Central Jail at 12.45 AM, a senior jail official who witnessed the execution told PTI.

With Mujahid and Chowdhury's execution, Bangladesh has hanged four war crimes convicts so far.

Jail sources said a seven-member team of hangmen comprising prison inmates carried out the executions.

President Abdul Hamid rejected the mercy petitions of the two top opposition leaders, hours after they had sought presidential clemency in a last-ditch attempt to escape the gallows.

They had sought presidential clemency admitting their guilt.

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