Fugitive Razakar commander gets death

 A fugitive commander of the notorious Razakar Bahini, an auxiliary force of the Pakistani troops, was on Tuesday sentenced to death by a Bangladeshi court for massacre and torture particularly of Hindus during the country’s 1971 liberation war.

Syed Mohammad Hasan Ali, 68, was found guilty on five charges out of six and Justice M Enaytur Rahim, chairman of the three-member panel of International Crimes Tribunal-1, handed down the death sentence to him. The verdict said that the “death be executed by hanging the accused by the neck till he is dead or by shooting him till he is dead”.

“The government will decide on his manner of execution,” the judge said in a rare directive while handing down death penalties.