DHAKA: Bangladesh Tuesday executed the chief of its main Islamist party for atrocities committed during the country’s 1971 independence war with Pakistan.
Motiur Rahman Nizami was hanged at a Dhaka prison after he refused to appeal for clemency against the death sentence handed down following his conviction for war crimes.
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