2 get death, 3 jailed for life for war crimes

Two war criminals were sentenced to death while three others jailed until death by the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 for committing crimes against humanity during the 1971 liberation war.

A three-member judge panel headed by Justice Md Shahinur Islam on Wednesday passed the order.

The two death sentence awardees are Nesar Ali and Ujer Ahmed Chowdhury. The convicts who got life term are Shamsul Hossain Tarafder, Yunus Ahmed and Mobarak Mia.

Of the five, only Yunus and Ujer are in jail.

The ICT-1 on June 9, 2016, took five charges pressed by the prosecution, into cognizance. Hearing on charge framing was held on November 2, of the same year.

The tribunal on December 8, 2016, indicted the five in the crimes against humanity case.

According to the prosecution the accused ran havoc in the locality during the War of Liberation as the leaders of local Razakar Bahini and Al-Badr.