Facebook has been restored in
Bangladesh, after a three-week shutdown following the hanging of Salahuddin
Quader Chowdhury and Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid for war crimes during the
country’s bloody struggle for independence from Pakistan 44 years ago.
A special war crimes tribunal had
found Chowdhury guilty of 9 charges including genocide, arson and persecuting
people on religious and political grounds. While Mujahid was convicted of 5, including abduction and murder.
Both were prominent opposition
politicians. A senior figure in the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, Chowdhury had
been elected an MP 6 times. Mujahid, an Islamist, was social welfare minister from 2001 to 2006. Both men maintained their innocence.
The tribunal was set up in 2010 by
the current government, following an election pledge to bring murderers to
justice, but human rights groups argue the men were not given a fair trial.
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