DHAKA – Forty-two years intoBangladesh’s bloody war of liberation,Abdul Quader Mollah,a key ally of the Pakistani occupationforce, was hangedWednesdaynight insideD h a k aCentral Jailfor hisw a r t i m eoffences.The firstwar criminalto pay for the 1971 crimesagainst humanity, the Jamaat-e-Islami assistant secretary generalwas executed at 10:01pmhours after the country’s highestcourt dismissed his petition toreview his death sentence. “Hisbody remained hanging for 20minutes before it was takendown,” Dhaka DeputyCommissioner Sheikh YusufMreedha told The Daily Star.The then president ofShahidullah Hall unit of IslamiChhatra Sangha, then studentwing of Jamaat, the 65-year-oldcompleted the full circle oflegal ways to save his skinbefore walking to the gallows.
