[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----worldwide

[Rick Halperin]

July 19



BANGLADESH:

3 get death penalty for 1971 war crimes


A special tribunal in Bangladesh has sentenced 3 members of a militia group to 
death for their role in killings and other serious crimes committed during the 
country's independence war against Pakistan 35 years ago.

5 other defendants were sentenced to life in prison in the same case.

A 3-member panel of judges announced the verdict Monday with only 2 of the 
defendants in the docks. The others were tried in absentia. All of them were 
members of Al Badr, which collaborated with the Pakistani army to commit 
genocide in Bangladesh's Jamalpur district in 1971.

Bangladesh says Pakistani soldiers, aided by local collaborators, killed 3 
million people, raped 200,000 women and forced 10 million people to flee to 
refugee camps in India.

(source: Fox News)