DHAKA: As a cabinet minister, Motiur Rahman Nizami used to be chauffeured around Bangladesh with the green and red national flag fluttering proudly from the bonnet of his official limousine.

But according to witnesses at his war crimes trial, the future leader of Bangladesh's main Islamist party spent his student days running a killing machine which murdered anyone who agitated for independence.

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