DHAKA - Two senior Bangladeshi opposition leaders were executed early Sunday for war crimes committed during the 1971 independence war with Pakistan after their last-ditch pleas for clemency were rejected, a minister said.
Bangladeshi secular activists and former fighters who fought in the 1971 war of independence against Pakistan protest as they call for the death penalty to be upheld for opposition leaders Chowdhury and Mujahid, in Dhaka on November 18, 2015
"Both of them have been hanged. The execution took place at 00:45am (1845 GMT Saturday)," Justice Minister Anisul Huq told AFP after Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid and Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury lost their final bid to escape the gallows.