Chowdhury Mueen Uddin and Ashrafuzzaman Khan convicted in absentia of murdering 18 people during 1971 Pakistan war
A special war crimes tribunal in Bangladesh has sentenced to death two men living in Britain and the US for crimes against humanity during the country's independence war against Pakistan in 1971.
Chowdhury Mueen Uddin, who lives in Britain, and Ashrafuzzaman Khan, who is in New York, were found guilty by a three-judge panel of abducting and murdering 18 people, including nine university teachers, six journalists and three doctors in December 1971.
The two were convicted in absentia because they refused to return to Bangladesh to face trial. During the 1971 war, the two men were members of the Jamaat-e-Islami, the Islamic party allied to the country's main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist party, which is now headed by the former prime minister Khaleda Zia, a rival of current PM Sheikh Hasina.
Hasina formed the special tribunal in 2010 to try war crimes suspects. A supreme court ruling last month that upheld the conviction and death sentence of a senior member of Jamaat-e-Islami, Abdul Quader Mollah, triggered deadly clashes and a general strike.
Bangladesh says Pakistani soldiers and local collaborators killed 3 million people and raped 200,000 women during the 1971 war.
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