Mobarak Hossain, an expelled leader of Bangladesh’s ruling Awami league party, was sentenced to death on Monday by a special tribunal for murdering 33 civilians and committing war crimes during the 1971 independence war against Pakistan.
“He shall be hanged by neck until he is dead,” ruled a three-member panel of judges of International Crimes Tribunal-2 headed by Justice M Enayetur Rahim.
The tribunal said it found the former militia commander guilty in two of the five charges brought against him.
64-year-old Hossain, clad in a white dress, was handed death for the killing of 33 civilians at his home district in central Brahmanbaria district on August 22, 1971.