Bangladesh's fundamentalist Jamaat-e- Islami leader and media tycoon Mir Quasem Ali was buried in the wee hours on Sunday (Sept 4) in his ancestral village in Manikganj after a funeral prayer following his execution on Satruday (Sept 3).
Mir Quasem, 63, widely considered as the top financier of the Jamaat, was hanged at the high-security Kashimpur Central Jail on the outskirts of the capital at 10:30 pm on Saturday (Sept 3). Three ambulances, one of which carried his body left Kashimpur prison after 12:30 am. A Fire Service car, six vehicles of RAB and police and three other cars were escorting them when they left the jail premises, Bdnews24 reported.
Mir Quasem's relatives had already reached Manikganj'sChala village to prepare for the burial. Police did not allow outsiders to enter the village. Mir Quasem was the sixth Islamist to be executed for war crimes committed during the country's 1971 Liberation War against Pakistan. His execution came after he refused to seek presidential clemency.
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