A 78-year-old war crimes convict has died under treatment in a Dhaka city hospital.
Md Billal Hossain Biswas, who was jailed for life in 2016, has been suffering from old-age complications.
Biswas was taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital from Kashimpur jail on May 5 and died there around 1:00am on Friday, according to Md Bachchu Miah, a sub-inspector of police.
The International Crimes Tribunal, in a verdict on August 10, 2016, jailed seven people, including Biswas, for their roles in war crimes in Jashore’s Keshabpur in 1971. He was a resident of Keshabpur’s Nehalpara.
During the Liberation War, according to a bdnews24 report, Biswas sided with the anti-liberation forces. In 2014, he was arrested over allegations of crimes against humanity.
