Ghulam Azam

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Ghulam Azam (7 November 1922 – 23 October 2014) was a Bangladeshi politician and Islamic scholar who served as the first emir of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami (BJI) from 1992 to 2002. Azam was involved in forming paramilitary groups, including Razakar Bahini and Al-Badr, to support the Pakistan Army during the Bangladesh Liberation War. These militias were involved in war crimes, including murder, rape, and torture during the Bangladesh genocide and opposed the Mukti Bahini, who fought for the independence of Bangladesh. Azam was arrested on 11 January 2012 by the International Crimes Tribunal of Bangladesh (ICT). He was charged and found guilty of war crimes such as conspiring, planning, incitement to and complicity in committing the genocide and was sentenced to 90 years in prison on 15 July 2013. The tribunal stated that Azam deserved capital punishment for his activity during the war but was given a lenient punishment of imprisonment because of his old age and poor health. The trial was...

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