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14 Islamic militants given demise sentence for making an attempt to kill Bangladesh PM Hasina in 2000


Fourteen Islamists from a banned militant outfit had been on Tuesday sentenced to demise via a Bangladeshi court docket for plotting to kill Top Minister Sheikh Hasina all through an election rally in 2000.

Pass judgement on Abu Zafar Md Kamruzzaman of Dhaka’s Fast Trial Tribunal-1 pronounced the decision as 9 of them had been dropped at the court docket from prison to stand the trial in individual. The remainder 5 convicts are at the run. They had been attempted in absentia and defended via state-appointed legal professionals.

The pass judgement on mentioned that he believed that with exemplary punishments it’s imaginable to forestall the recurrence of such terrible and brutal incidents within the nation.

“The decision can be carried out via a firing squad to set an instance, until the legislation barred it,” the pass judgement on mentioned.

Differently, the convicts, all operatives of outlawed Harkatul Jihad Bangladesh (HuJI-B), may well be hanged in keeping with the present apply, following necessary overview of the demise sentences via the Prime Court docket Department of the Preferrred Court docket beneath the Bangladesh legislation, the pass judgement on mentioned.

Beneath the legislation, the demise sentences will require to be recommended via the Prime Court docket following an automated demise reference listening to. The convicts are allowed to record an enchantment as smartly.

For the 5 convicts who’re at massive, the pass judgement on ordered the decision to be carried out after their arrest or give up.

HuJI-B’s leader Mufti Abdul Hannan, who was once discovered to be the mastermind of the plot, too was once indicted within the case however his title was once dropped from the trial as he was once carried out in 2017 in every other case involving tried assassination of the then Bangladeshi-origin British Prime Commissioner.

The court docket in its remark mentioned: “The convicts planted the bomb to oust the democratic and legit executive via killing Top Minister Sheikh Hasina and leaders and activists of Awami League. The anti-liberation forces are proceeding their conspiracies since their defeat within the Struggle of Liberation.”

It additionally noticed that they killed Father of the Country Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1975 and hatched conspiracies one after every other to kill Sheikh Hasina since her go back to the rustic.

“The tribunal believes that it’s imaginable to forestall the recurrence of such terrible and brutal incidents via giving exemplary punishments to the convicts,” it added.

The convicts had hatched the plot to kill Hasina via planting a high-powered 76 kilogramme bomb close to a flooring in her constituency in Kotalipara space in southwestern Gopalganj district the place she was once intended to deal with an election rally in July 2000.

On the other hand, safety businesses detected the tool forward of the rally on the spot the place the premier’s helicopter was once set to land.

Days later, every other tool weighing 40 kilogrammes was once detected from a close-by spot.

In 2017, 10 militants had been sentenced to demise and 9 others jailed for 20 years each and every via a court docket within the case.

Hasina has previously survived a number of assassination makes an attempt with the primary in 1975 when an army coup killed her Father and Bangladesh’s founder Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman along side maximum of his members of the family.

Hasina and her more youthful sister Sheikh Rehana survived the carnage as they had been on a discuss with to Germany.

Hasina miraculously survived a grenade assault when she was once addressing an anti-terrorism rally in 2004.

The assault claimed 24 lives and injured some 500 others.

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