Dhaka: Fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami chief Motiur Rahman Nizami was hanged on Tuesday midnight, becoming the senior most Islamist to be executed for war crimes committed during Bangladesh&rsquo;s 1971 Liberation War against Pakistan.
<img title="Security personnel cordon an ambulance carrying the body of Motiur Rahman Nizami. Pic/AP" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/images/2016/may/12-Motiur-Rahman-Nizami.jpg" alt="Security personnel cordon an ambulance carrying the body of Motiur Rahman Nizami. Pic/AP" /> Security personnel cordon an ambulance carrying the body of Motiur Rahman Nizami. Pic/AP
73-year-old leader of the Bangladesh&rsquo;s largest Islamist party had refused to seek presidential clemency. Nizami was hanged at Dhaka Central Jail at 12 midnight.
Clashes broke out between activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and police in several Bangladeshi cities yesterday after the execution. Policemen in riot-gear fired rubber bullets when hundreds of Jamaat supporters pelted them with stones in the northwestern city of Rajshahi, where a liberal professor was hacked to death by Islamists near his home last month.

Fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami chief Motiur Rahman Nizami was hanged on Tuesday midnight, becoming the senior most Islamist to be executed for war crimes committed during Bangladesh&rsquo;s 1971 Liberation War against Pakistan

Clashes after Bangladesh hangs Jamaat chief for war crimes

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