En højtstående leder af Bangladesh’s største islamiske parti er den første til at blive undersøgt af krigsforbryderdomstol for sin medvirken under krigen mod Pakistan i 1971.
The war crimes tribunal accused Delawar Hossain Sayedee of mass murder and torture among other crimes, BBC reports Monday.
Sayadee denies all the allegations.
Mr Sayedee, a leader in Bangladesh’s Jamaat-e-Islami party, was arrested last year.
The tribunal was set up in 2010 to try those accused of crimes during the war.
Bangladesh was called East Pakistan until 1971 when a nine-month war of secession broke out leaving up to three million people dead.
– The court has framed charges on 20 counts including crimes against humanity and genocide against Mr Sayedee, Mohammad Shahinur Islam, registrar of the International Crimes Tribunal, told the BBC.
