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Abdul Quader Molla
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SOURCE: http://www.hinduhumanrights.info/bangladesh-executes-top-islamist-leader-abdul-quader-molla-for-war-crimes/]
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Abdul Quader Molla (Bengali:
আব্দুল কাদের মোল্লা;
14 August 1948 – 12 December 2013) was a Bangladeshi Islamist leader, writer,
and politician of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, who was
tried and sentenced to death by the International Crimes
Tribunal, Bangladesh set up by the government of Bangladesh and hanged.
There have been objections from the United
Nations, the governments of several countries, and international Human
rights organizations but on the other hand there was widespread support from
the general people of Bangladesh for the execution.
He
was convicted on five of six counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes
at his trial at the Bangladeshi International
Crimes Tribunal (ICT), on 5 February 2013. A member of the Al-Badar militia during
the liberation war, Molla was convicted of
killing 344 civilians and other crimes. He was sentenced to life in prison. As
a direct result of the sentence the 2013 Shahbag protests began with the protesters demanding
capital punishment for all those on trial. The protest spread from Dhaka to
other parts of the country. Protesters called for those convicted of war crimes
to be sentenced to capital punishment, and also to ban Jamaat-e-Islami.
Jamaat-e-Islami started a violent counter-protest in the country, demanding the
release of its convicted and accused leaders. On 17 September 2013, after an
amendment to the ICT law which allowed the government, complainant, or
informant to appeal an order of acquittal or order of sentencing, the Bangladesh Supreme Court found Molla
guilty of murders and other war crimes, and converted his life sentence to a
death sentence. He was scheduled to be executed by hanging on 11
December. Due to more legal challenges, the execution was suspended and then
upheld; he was executed on 12 December. He was the first person to have been
executed for crimes committed during the Bangladesh Liberation War.
Quader
Molla had unsuccessfully stood for parliament
in 1986 and 1996, contesting the seat
Faridpur-4 for Jamaat-e-Islami.
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