Bangladesh people want nothing short of death for Salauddin Quader Chowdhury: Liberation War Affairs minister

The people of Bangladesh will not accept anything except death for Salauddin Quader Chowdhury if his crimes are proven, the Liberation War affairs minister has said.

AKM Mozammel Huq was speaking at a human-chain programme outside the National Press Club on Tuesday.

The Appellate Division will deliver the final verdict for the BNP leader from Chittagong on 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.

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The charges include murder, genocide, abduction, and deadly torture of innocents who supported Bangladesh’s Liberation War.  

“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.” 

Minister Huq hoped the Supreme Court would uphold the death sentence awarded to the war-time terror whose crimes included running a torture cell with his father Muslim League leader Fazlul Quader Chowdhury in their Goods Hill house.

His father was arrested under ‘The Collaborators Act’ after independence and died in prison.  

Chowdhury was first made a minister by military strongman HM Ershad. He was made an adviser with the status of a minister by BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia.