Matiur Rahman Nizami, chief of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, who was arrested last year along with four other senior members of his party. Now one of the four - Delwar Hossain Sayeedi - faces war crimes charges. Photograph: Rafiqur Rahman/ReutersA Landmark Moment in Bangladesh's Slow Crawl Toward Justice -- Time
In Dhaka, a war crimes tribunal charged its first suspect on some 20 counts, including crimes against humanity. Delwar Hossain Sayedee, a leading figure in the Jamaat-e-Islami, the country's most important Islamist party, will now go to court Oct. 30. If you haven't heard of the case, it's not your fault — the 1971 genocide in Bangladesh is perhaps the least discussed mass slaughter in the history of the 20th century. According to some accounts [...]
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