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Advocate Zead AI Malum, who served as senior prosecutor of the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT), breathed his last at Combined Military Hospital (CMH) Saturday night. His life support was removed at 12:35am (Sunday), ICT Senior Consultant Mehedi Masum confirmed. On May 25, the 67-year-old
Bangladesh war crimes prosecutor Zead-al Malum passes away
Advocate Zead AI Malum, who served as senior prosecutor of the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT), breathed his last at Combined Military Hospital (CMH) Saturday night.
His life support was removed at 12:35am (Sunday), ICT Senior Consultant Mehedi Masum confirmed.
On May 25, the 67-year-old Supreme Court lawyer was admitted to Bangladesh Specialized Hospital in the capital after suffering a stroke.
Later, Zead AI Malum, also a freedom fighter, was put on life support as his condition worsened.
Next, he was shifted to CMH in June.
In March 2010, Zead AI Malum was appointed prosecutor of the ICT, a domestic tribunal with the power to adjudicate international crimes.
BNP and Hifazat: partners on a mission
Members of Hifazat-e Islam carried out mayhem on the Dhaka-Chattogram Highway in Narayanganj’s Signboard area as they clashed with the law enforcers in different parts of Bangladesh during the radical group’s violent shutdown on Sunday, Mar 28, 2021. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove
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16th May 2021
In Bangladesh, the looming shadow of Pakistan ceases to die. Despite 50 years of liberated existence and a decade of phenomenal economic and human development, the ghost of Islamic radicalism refuses to go away.
The religious radicalism encouraged by Pakistani military junta to keep its stranglehold on its eastern wing before 1971 was defeated by resurgent militant Bengalee nationalism but it got a fresh lease of life after the 1975 coup and consolidated its grip with enormous patronage from military rulers, Ziaur Rahman and HM Ershad.