The ongoing trial of Bangladesh’s alleged war criminals initiated by Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League (AL) in 2010 has pushed the fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami, which violently resisted the country’s independence from Pakistan more than four decades back, to the corner. The party’s almost entire top leaders are either convicted or languishing in jails facing execution. In a landmark judgement on March 8, 2016, the Supreme Court upheld death sentence against front-line Jamaat leader and a business tycoon Mir Quasem Ali for committing heinous crimes during the 1971 Liberation War.
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