Executed Jamaat-e-Islami chief Nizami buried at village home

Fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami chief Motiur Rahman Nizami, executed by the Bangladesh authorities for war crimes committed during the country's 1971 Liberation War was buried at his village home in Santhia upazila in Pabna this morning.

Nizami's son Nazib Momen received the body at their village home at Monmothpur around 6:20a.m., reports the Daily Star.

Before his burial around 7:15 a.m., relatives and locals attended his namaz-e-janaza held at a madrasa at Monmothpur.

Nizami is the senior most Islamist to be executed in Bangladesh for war crimes during the liberation war against Pakistan.

His final appeal against his death sentence was rejected by the apex court on May 5.

A former minister in previous BNP-led Khaleda Zia government, he was in jail since 2010, when he was arrested for war crimes.

Nizami was given capital punishment in October 2014 by the international crimes tribunal. He was found guilty of systematic killings of over 450 people alone in his own village.

With his execution, Nizami becomes the fifth top perpetrator to be hanged for the war crimes against humanity.

Jamaat leaders Abdul Quader Mollah, AHM Kamaruzzaman, Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed and BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury were executed as they had been awarded death penalty for their crimes.

Two others, Jamaat leader Ghulam Azam and BNP leader Abdul Alim who had been sentenced to imprisonment unto death, died in jail.