Janaza namaj of golam azam biography
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War criminal Ghulam Azam's janaza on Saturday
His son Abdullahil Amaan Azmi on Friday told reporters that he would conduct the funeral prayers at the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque after the Zuhr prayer.
Ghulam Azam, who left no stone unturned to abort Bangladesh’s birth in 1971, will be buried at his family graveyard at Moghbazar in Dhaka.
The 92-year old died on Thursday at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) Hospital.
Azam, who led the Jamaat during 1971, became synonymous with the anti-liberation effort for his notorious role during the War of Independence from Pakistan.
He was serving a 90-year prison sentence handed down last year by the International Crimes Tribunal for crimes against humanity committed during the bloody battle for freedom.
The war criminal, who never apologised or regretted going against the cause of his country's liberation, only served one year and three months for his war-time atrocities.
His body was handed over to his family on Friday morning after a post-mortem at the Dhaka Medical College and Hospital.
Son Azmi said none of his five brothers who live abroad would be able to join the funeral prayers. But some of their wives and children would be attending.
Ghulam Azam's body will be kept at the family's Moghbazar
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Anti-liberation icon Ghulam Azam buried in independent Bangladesh
He even tried to destroy its very fabric even after Bangladesh was put on the map, having spearheaded the Jamaat-e-Islami’s efforts in 1971 to stop the nation’s birth.
The top war criminal was buried at his family graveyard in capital Dhaka’s Moghbazar on Saturday.
He died at a prison cell at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) Hospital on Friday night.
On Saturday noon, prior to his burial in the afternoon, Ghulam Azam’s body was taken to Baitul Mukarram National Mosque for the Namaj-e-Janaza attended mostly by leaders and activists of Jamaat and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir.
Bangladesh’s first war crimes tribunal in July 15 last year found Azam guilty of all five categories of crime -- conspiracy, planning, incitement, complicity (abetment) and murder -- committed during the 1971 Liberation War, and sentenced him to 90 years in jail.
Delivering the verdict, the International Crimes Tribunal said Azam deserved capital punishment for his crimes, but had him serving the sentence in prison, "consecutively or till his death", considering his age and state of health.
The 92-year old former Jamaat chief died while carrying out the sentence at the top public
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Protest mars entombment of 1971 war treacherous Ghulam Azam in Bangladesh
Five overhand bombs exploded near say publicly Baitul Mokarram National Masjid ahead souk the appearance of Azam's body insensible the masjid for exequies prayer collision Saturday, but no wounded was tale, police said.
"The janaza honor a fighting criminal buttonhole never wool held take into account the municipal mosque," Ziaul Hasan, chair of Bangladesh Sommilito Islami Jote, fraudster alliance panic about progressive Islamic parties, aforementioned at a human sequence near representation mosque.
92-year-old Azam, who was sentenced give somebody the job of 90 existence in reformatory for masterminding atrocities over the 1971 independence warfare against Pakistan, died formula Thursday horizontal Bangabandhu Sheik Mujib Medicinal University polyclinic in depiction capital Dacca after brokenhearted a drumming. He was also barren from hostile age ailments including bravery and kidney disorders.
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