Jamaat chief Nizami buried
Jamaat-e-Islami ameer Matiur Rahman Nizami was buried near his ancestral home in Santhia upazila after a namaz-e-janaza there on Wednesday.
Jamaat, meanwhile, held several ghaibana janazas (funeral prayers in the absence of the body) in different districts including in the Baitul Mokkarram national mosque in the capital.
Also a former minister and MP, Nizami was hanged in Dhaka Central Jail at 12:10am after six years of trial for crimes against humanity during the liberation war in 1971.
An ambulance carrying the body of the executed war criminal left Dhaka Central Jail premises for Pabna at 1:30am. It arrived at Manmathpur in Santhia around 6:35am, reports news agency UNB.
Majharul Islam, deputy jailer of Dhaka Central Jail, handed over Nizami’s body to his son Barrister Najib Momen around 6:40am.
Nizami, 73, was buried at the graveyard, 300 yards away from his residence at Manmathpur in the upazila around 7:00am after a namaz-e-janaza, said his son Najib Momen.
With the latest execution, five such convicts have so far been executed, while two others - Jamaat leader Ghulam Azam and BNP leader Abdul Alim who had been sentenced to imprisonment unto death - died in jail.
Earlier, 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 on charge of crimes against humanity in 1971.
Jamaat, however, claimed all along that the trial process was flawed and its leaders have been made victims of political vendetta.
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