Bangladesh sentences man to death for murder, rape
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DHAKA: A special war crimes tribunal has sentenced a man to death on charges that he committed rape and murder in 1971 during Bangladesh's war for independence from Pakistan.
The tribunal's head judge, Obaidul Hassan, issued the order Thursday against Forkan Mollick.
The man worked at a local office of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, Bangladesh's largest religious party, which had organised people to fight against the independence struggle.
After Thursday's verdict, Mollick shouted from inside a prison van that he was innocent as police took him away.
Bangladesh says Pakistani soldiers, aided by local collaborators, killed 3 million people and raped 200,000 women during the war in then East Pakistan, now Bangladesh.
The defence plans to appeal the verdict.
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Jul 16, 2015 03:00pm
this is nothing more than a political show trial, a farce in the name of the awami league.
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Jul 16, 2015 03:25pm
What is wrong in giving justice to punish the cruel...
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Jul 16, 2015 03:31pm
So vendetta continues , a kangaroo court has been set up by P M Hasina to punish those who tried to prevent break up of the country.
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Jul 16, 2015 03:35pm
Mòst of the people sentenced and hanged are all the members of opposition parties. Everybody knows it. Why all these sentencings and hangings after more tan 45 years. Hasina is digging her own grave. When the time comes , nobody will help her.
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Jul 16, 2015 03:38pm
political show trial and nothing else then that!
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Jul 16, 2015 03:50pm
This Hasina lady is bulldozing the opposition by whipping up mass hysteria, frenzy and blood thirst for revenge against a 50 year old story. The alleged culprits are not given a fair trial, already criticized and labelled as kangroo courts by international monitors.
She will regret this, as tables are bound to turn on her sooner or later and she will be facing a similar blood thirsty kangroo court.
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Jul 16, 2015 03:57pm
It hurts and hurts.Where to find the beginning and what went wrong.
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Jul 16, 2015 04:08pm
When would BD of Hasina Wajid, get out of the ghost shadows of the past and join the real world ?
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Jul 16, 2015 04:08pm
These courts and judgements are strictly indian influenced and nothing else. Sadly, bangladesh Is dancing to the Indians tune.
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Jul 16, 2015 04:11pm
Hasina is making her future dark.
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Jul 16, 2015 04:16pm
Its not correct but BD history is painful to us.
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Jul 16, 2015 04:27pm
Still some Pakistani think Bangladesh is their colony and do not honor the judiciary system of a sovereign country. When trial of Germany .... comes they appreciate. Strange!
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Jul 16, 2015 04:43pm
Bangladesh has shown its religious zealots that they will be hanged no matter how much time it takes if they are colloborating with evils in the near future. Bravo.
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Jul 16, 2015 05:00pm
A biased regime "Awami League" that is sequal of Mukti Bahini is still conducting genocide of its own citizens whom they consider pro-Pakistan. These executions are being carried out by the aparthied puppet government to please their Indian masters. Love for Pakistan still exists in blood of majority of Bangladeshis and to wipe out this love, Awami League may ruin all Islamic institutions / roots which are responsible to keep intact a bond between Muslim brethren.
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Jul 16, 2015 05:11pm
Justice served at last. Better late than never!!
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Jul 16, 2015 05:25pm
This is just a way of the leadership to gain mileage out of innocent's blood.
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Jul 16, 2015 05:49pm
Germany recently gave prision sentence to a 95 year old guard of Nazi regime. Crime should not go unpunished.
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Jul 16, 2015 06:05pm
@Abdul, Pakistanis don't care. The world sees these kangaroo courts and wonder if Hasina needs psychological help. However, why Mukti Bahini criminals who committed murders and rape are NOT being tried?
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Jul 16, 2015 06:08pm
@kashor, How the criminals of Mukti Bahini goons? Why are those people not being tried. Also, Indian soldiers who committed rapes immediately after entering Dhaka are not tried either?
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Jul 16, 2015 06:30pm
Good. Bangladesh should correct the history and bring the wsr criminals to justice.
Pakistan should learn from Bangladesh example, and bring 1971 war criminals to justice.
West has no right to give certificate about courts. Don't forget Saddam's trial.
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Jul 16, 2015 06:41pm
Good going.
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Jul 16, 2015 06:51pm
I wish someone would research the three million claim seriously. Where are the mass graves, the incinerators and other evidence? For the sake of historical truth it should be examined without bias.
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Jul 16, 2015 07:19pm
Some call it Independence from Pakistan, in fact it was treason engineered by the enemies of Pakistan in the Eastern Part of Pakistan with the support of India and Isreal and of course Uncle Sam.
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Jul 16, 2015 07:20pm
There was a time when Bangladesh was regarded as the basket case of the world. Now Bangladesh leads in exports, education, sports and culture. Putting the sorry affairs of 1970 is part of the maturing of a society, to confront its past and to ensure justice is served no matter how long it took.
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Jul 16, 2015 07:52pm
@M Jamal It hurts and hurts, when we are reminded of the inhuman and beastly behaviour shown by our leaders and army in dealing with fellow country men in the then East Pakistan. We cannot close our eyes and wish that it gets erased.
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Jul 16, 2015 08:03pm
Bangladesh is on right track any collaborator of occupation should punished as a message to future generation. The collaborators of British should have been punished in India and Pakistan rather than given power.
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Jul 16, 2015 08:17pm
Then who raped and kill all those people at the time of partition ??
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Jul 16, 2015 08:59pm
Bangladesh .... Happy to see you independent but by knowing that you were Pakistan I feel ........perhaps you are Pakistan.......
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Jul 16, 2015 09:16pm
@Kashmiri34 : How can a crime committed over 44 years ago can be punished now when most of the witnesses have ceased to exist even???
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Jul 16, 2015 09:16pm
@kuriouskat Even Bosnia mass killing is a history,...why Muslims ask to declare it Genocide?
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Jul 16, 2015 09:36pm
These are all cooked and concocted stories by Indians. Otherwise, even honest and now well seasoned journalists still alive have strongly refuted such stories. They say such cases are in a few hundreds and nowhere in millions.
More glaring are the atrocities committed against the legal Bihari refugees who are facing inhuman treatment from the Bangladeshis, about which nobody talks.
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Jul 16, 2015 09:53pm
3 million killed? What a gross exaggeration to malign the most disciplined and professional Army in the entire Islamic world.
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Jul 16, 2015 09:56pm
@Abdul Nobody wants to admit the guilt perpuated especially in the name of religion or ideology! Admission of guilt is best therapy to move forwards!
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Jul 16, 2015 10:32pm
Oppression wherever and whenever occurs is deplorable . Justice must be meted out to honor the souls of all those, be they Biharis, Punjabis or Bengalis, mercilessly killed in a war of all against all. However canons of transaparency and justice require that the criminal investigation process in such instances be conducted of through a non partisan, multi-nation, tribunal drawn on the template set for Nuremberg trials. Otherwise the integrity of the process will remain questionable.
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Jul 16, 2015 10:53pm
Whatever the political reasons for carrying out these executions, it is none-the-less justice served. Whether the 3 million claim is true or not, the fact is many innocent lives were lost and women raped. Good to see that the guilty are being punished, albeit after so many years.
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Jul 16, 2015 10:59pm
Three million killed was uttered by Sheikh Mujib shortly after return from Pakistan possibly out of sheer emotion . No facts have emerged to support this number.
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Jul 17, 2015 01:40am
@Javed You need to make your facts clear. Please don't write on stuff you don't know. Anything you write is read by everyone and such misguiding stuff really hurts everyone. Please try to be reasonable and start thinking beyond India.
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Jul 17, 2015 02:37am
@M.Saeed
"More glaring are the atrocities committed against the legal Bihari refugees who are facing inhuman treatment from the Bangladeshis, about which nobody talks."
These Biharis considered themselves Pakistanis and fought on the side of Pakistan and suffered tremendous consequence for that. Yet to this date Pakistan refused to take them and left them stranded in Bangladesh.
As a Pakistani of Bihari origin I am truly ashamed of this shabby treatment of my fellow Biharis.
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Jul 17, 2015 02:37am
As a Bangladeshi I came to know about this news for the first time. Criminals should get punished anyway.
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Jul 17, 2015 03:18am
Atleast in BD there is justice system.. unlike in Pakistan where terrorists walk free on the streets...
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Jul 17, 2015 04:08am
@MJK What ever you guys think is correct, right?
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Jul 17, 2015 05:05am
@Abdul BD was never Pakistan's colony
What happened was wrong in every sense of the word and as a Pakistani I apologise.
But killing people who were fighting for a united country is wrong as well, especially after 44 years when stature of limitations has expired.
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Jul 17, 2015 05:08am
@Myth buster it was never an occupation...Once we were a united country
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Jul 17, 2015 05:47am
@M.Saeed
I suggest youGoogle mass killing and rapes in BD in 71 and read it for your knowledge.please also Google killing of doctors.engineers,writers and other intictualls all across BD and specially in Dhaka university to know truth.
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Jul 17, 2015 05:50am
@Sana
A distorted history has been present to you all as to why BD separate from Pakistan.
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Jul 17, 2015 05:52am
@Noshin
Just replace Pakistan for India and BD for Pakistan.
I feel the same.
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Jul 17, 2015 09:25am
Sentencing without evidence is another sign before Qayamat. Good will be seen as untrusted and evil will be seen as good. Hasina is Anti-Muslim working for Indian intelligence undercover. She doesnt seem right. Something is wrong and fishy in Bangladesh as the Goverment is pure Anti-Pakistani. Thos government is spteading lies and propaganda against innocemt Pakistan.
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Jul 17, 2015 12:38pm
@M.Saeed It is few hundred or million not an issue. Even a life is precious more than all the wealth of world. What you think Mr. M. Saeed?
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