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Bangladesh politician arrested over war crimes

Bangladesh has arrested a leading opposition politician after he was named a suspect in a war crimes investigation into the country’s 1971 liberation struggle, police said Monday.
Abdul Alim was detained in northwestern Joypurhat district late Sunday on the orders of the International Crimes Tribunal, which was set up to prosecute war crimes committed during the bloody nine-month conflict against Pakistan.
“The tribunal has accused him of war crimes including genocide, arson and looting. He was arrested and sent to the capital Dhaka,” local police chief Mozammal Huq told AFP.
Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal was formed last year to try people suspected of atrocities during the country’s campaign for independence from Pakistan.
Bangladesh, which was known as East Pakistan until 1971, has struggled to come to terms with its bloody birth.
The current government, led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, says up to three million people were killed in the war — many murdered by Bangladeshi collaborators of Pakistani forces.
Hasina is the daughter of independence leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
Bangladeshi authorities have said the tribunal will only prosecute Bangladeshi collaborators, not Pakistani soldiers.
Alim, 80, is a member of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), the country’s main opposition. He was a minister in the first cabinet of the BNP’s founder, military strongman Ziaur Rahman, in 1976.

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