Abdul Quader Molla

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Abdul Quader Molla , also Abdul Quader Mollah or Abdul Kader Molla ( Bengali আব্দুল কাদের মোল্লা ; born October 20, 1948 in Amirabad, Faridpur District , East Pakistan ; died December 12, 2013 in Dhaka , Bangladesh ) was an Islamist politician in Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and journalist . He was tried, sentenced to death and hanged as a war criminal by the International Crimes Tribunal of Bangladesh (ICT) for crimes committed during the Bangladesh War .

biography

In February 2013 protests in Dhaka-Shahbag called for the death penalty for Abdul Quader Molla.

Abdul Quader Molla was born in 1948 in the village of Amirabad, where he attended school. As a middle school student, he joined the Jamaat-e-Islami student union . He became a middle school teacher and was vice-president of the Dhaka Journalists' Association from 1982 to 1983.

In 1971, leading members of Jamaat-e-Islami turned against the independence movement in East Pakistan , claiming that the secession of that state from Pakistan violated Islamic principles. Molla was a member of the Al-Badr militia during the Bangladesh War, in the course of which Bangladesh finally gained independence with Indian help . At the ICT trial on February 5, 2013, he was accused of killing 344 civilians and committing other crimes during the course of the war. He was charged with crimes against humanity and war crimes, found guilty on five out of six, and sentenced to life imprisonment. Immediately after the verdict was pronounced, protests that lasted for days in Shahbag , a lively district of the capital Dhaka, were attended by tens of thousands of people demanding the execution of Mollas, who had since been nicknamed the butcher of Mirpur . Mirpur is a district ( Thana ) of Dhaka. On September 17, 2013, the trial was resumed before the Supreme Court of Bangladesh . Molla was sentenced to death and hanged in Dhaka Central Prison on December 12, 2013, despite protests by Human Rights Watch and the UN . He was the first person to be executed for crimes committed in the Bangladesh war.

During the 1986 and 1996 elections for Bangladesh's parliament , Molla had run unsuccessfully for a seat as representative of Faridpur District. Around 2010 he became deputy general secretary of the Bangladesh Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami .

The execution of Mollah was hardly mentioned in the international media, apart from brief agency reports. The government of Qatar spoke out against it, and Pakistani Interior Minister Nisar Ali Khan described the process as a " judicial murder ". The Islamic Circle of North America wrote, "This is political murder and a black day for justice".

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Huge Bangladesh rally seeks death penalty for War Crimes BBC, February 8, 2013
  2. ↑ Bangladesh split as violence escalates over war crimes protests The Observer, February 23, 2013
  3. ↑ Bangladesh: Abdul Kader Mullah gets death penalty for war crimes. BBC News, September 17, 2013, accessed February 13, 2016 .
  4. ^ Nisar terms Quader Molla's hanging a judicial murder DAWN
  5. ↑ Bangladesh leader's execution is a political murder ICNA, December 13, 2013

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personal data
SURNAME Molla, Abdul Quader
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mollah, Abdul Cuboid; Molla, Abdul Kader; আব্দুল কাদের মোল্লা (Bengali)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bangladeshi politician of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, executed as a war criminal
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Amirabad, Faridpur , East Pakistan
DATE OF DEATH December 12th 2013
Place of death Dhaka , Bangladesh