Fugitive criminal wanted in 1971 war crimes case arrested in Bangladesh
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“He was an activist of Jamaat-e-Islami during the 1971 Liberation War and was involved in mass killings, arson, rape and looting in north-eastern Gaibandha,” the RAB said in a statement.
Bangladesh security forces have arrested a Jamaat-e-Islami activist who was on the run for a decade and sentenced to death by a tribunal on charges of crimes against humanity during the 1971 liberation war. Based on an intelligence, the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested 70-year-old Abu Muslim Mohammad Ali from Demra area on the outskirts of Dhaka on Saturday. “He was an activist of Jamaat-e-Islami during the 1971 Liberation War and was involved in mass killings, arson, rape and looting in north-eastern Gaibandha,” the RAB said in a statement.
He was sentenced to death by the International Criminal Tribunal in 2017 after a trial in absentia. “We arrested him from a slum where he was hiding,” said RAB Lt. Col. Arif Mohiuddin Ahmed. About 10 days before Ali’s arrest, the RAB conducted separate raids in Dhaka’s Mohammadpur and Mugdha areas. Two war criminals were arrested in
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