DHAKA: Bangladesh authorities moved to hang a top Islamist leader for overseeing a massacre during the nation’s 1971 independence war, after he refused to seek clemency from the country’s president.
Mohammad Kamaruzzaman, the third most senior figure in the Jamaat-e-Islami party, was originally expected to be hanged yesterday morning, but the execution was postponed at the last minute.
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