\\\'Countrymen want only death for SQ Chy\\\'
Wednesday, 29 July 2015
A minister said on Tuesday the people of Bangladesh will not accept anything except death for Salauddin Quader Chowdhury if his crimes are proven, reports bdnews24.com.
The Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Huq made the comments while speaking at a human chain programme organised by Muktijoddha Sangsad Kendriya Council in front of the National Press Club in the city on Tuesday.
The Appellate Division (AD) will deliver the final verdict for the BNP leader from Chittagong today (Wednesday).
Bangladesh's first Internationals Crimes Tribunal found him guilty of nine among the 23 war crimes charges brought against him by the prosecution.
The 66-year-old former MP had been handed the maximum penalty for four.
The charges include murder, genocide, abduction, and deadly torture of innocents who supported Bangladesh's Liberation War in 1971.
"The whole world, not the just Bangladeshis, knows what Salauddin Quader Chowdhury did in collaboration with the Pakistani Army in 1971.
"He bloodied his hands by committing heinous crimes and incited others to do the same."