Why is this old man executed? I want to understand what is happening.
Nizami was a heinous murderer and a rapist. Everybody knows it in Bangladesh but he was using Islam card to get sympathy from religious people. He was known as 'Moitta Razakar'.
He was a commander of killing squad
Al-Badr paramilitary wing ( Name is inspired by battle of Badr) of Pakistan army during Bangladesh liberation war. He with his gang planned and brutally killed teachers, doctors, intellectuals during the last days of the war. Its very well documented.
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The
Al-Badr (
Bengali: আল বদর, originally from the
Arabic: البدر meaning
full moon) was a paramilitary wing of the West Pakistan Army, which operated in
Bangladesh (then
East Pakistan) against the Bengali nationalist movement during the
Bangladesh Liberation War.
[1]
Nizami rose in the ranks of the
East Pakistan branch of
Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan in the 1960s, having led the student organization, Islamic Chhatro Shango (now
Islami Chhatro Shibir). After the independence of Bangladesh,
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the first president, banned Jamaat from political participation as it had opposed the liberation, and many of its members collaborated with the Pakistan Army during the conflict. Nizami and some other top leaders left the country.
Allegations of corruption
In May 2008, the Anti-corruption Commission of Bangladesh indicted Nizami in the GATCO Corruption case, in which he along with several other politicians are alleged to have illegally granted a container-depot contract to the local firm GATCO.
[25] A warrant was issued to arrest Nizami along with 12 others on May 15, 2008.
Nizami was charged with conspiring with 12 other politicians to award the contract to GATCO although the company did not meet the conditions of the tender. The prosecution alleged that the deal with GATCO caused a total loss of more than 100 million
Bangladeshi Taka to the Government.
[26] Nizami denied the charges and said they were politically motivated.
[27] He was released after two months on bail.
Religious charges
In a public speech on March 17, 2010, the Dhaka Jamaat chief, Rafiqul Islam, compared Nizami's life to that of the Prophet
Muhammad, persisting in the face of persecution. On March 21, the Bangladesh Tariqat Federation sued Rafiqul, Nizami and other Jamaat members "for hurting Islamic sentiments of the masses by comparing Nizami with the Prophet".
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Nizami, along with three other senior Jamaat leaders, was arrested on charges on March 29, 2010.
[29] He secured bail the next day and appealed for dismissal of the case on February 14, 2011. The High Court adjourned the case for four months in March 2011.
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Smuggling charges
On May 4, 2011, Nizami was arrested on allegations of smuggling arms to
Assamese insurgents in India in 2004.
[30] His bail petition on 7 September 2011 was denied.
[31]
On January 30, 2014, Nizami and 13 co-conspirators were sentenced to death by hanging after being found guilty of smuggling arms.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motiur_Rahman_Nizami