Butcher Of Mirpur

Bangladesh on Thursday hanged a senior Islamist leader known as the "Butcher of Mirpur", making him the first person to be put to death for massacres committed during the country's bloody 1971 war of independence.

Bangladesh's top court on Wednesday stayed Abdul Quader Mollah's execution which was dramatically put on hold in a last-minute reprieve, as the hearing of the fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami leader's review petition was adjourned till Thursday.

When Ranajit Rinku heard the "Butcher of Mirpur" had been jailed for life for mass murder during Bangladesh's liberation war, he couldn't believe a man with so much blood on his hands could escape the gallows.

Bangladesh on Thursday hanged a senior Islamist leader known as the "Butcher of Mirpur", making him the first person to be put to death for massacres committed during the country's bloody 1971 war of independence.

Bangladesh's top court on Wednesday stayed Abdul Quader Mollah's execution which was dramatically put on hold in a last-minute reprieve, as the hearing of the fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami leader's review petition was adjourned till Thursday.

When Ranajit Rinku heard the "Butcher of Mirpur" had been jailed for life for mass murder during Bangladesh's liberation war, he couldn't believe a man with so much blood on his hands could escape the gallows.