It's funny how unaware tumblrites are of their American-centric attitudes. Like not even the right wing ones (who doesn't give a fuck about how things work outside of America) but the left wing tumblrs who try to be more socially aware. There was a post going around about a Muslim leader in Bangladesh slated to be executed for war crimes during the the Bangladesh and Pakistan civil war. And the post made it appear as though he was being executed for being a Muslim and it was a case of western style Islamophobia. It's just that Bangladesh is currently a Muslim majority country and the man in question had authorized the rape and murder of Muslims, Hindus, and Buddhists alike. Yet they still act as though it was White Americans mistreating Muslim Americans because they can't see how else it would work.
It was Qadir Mollah - who was executed on 12 December 2013 for being war crimes/ crimes against humanity by the International War Crimes Tribunal (a misleading name because it was made up entirely of Bangladeshis and the Tribunal was comprised of 3 Bangladeshi Supreme Court Justices). The Tribunal was set up to try war crimes arising out of the 1971 liberation war - particularly crimes by Razakars. Razakars were Bangladeshi's who wanted to remain East Pakistan rather than an independent nation. They also assisted the Pakistani army in conducting brutal war crimes, mass rape, murder and destruction. Qadir Mollah was one of the leaders of the Razakars. While they did go in for a bit of ethnic cleansing - that is killing hindu men, women and children summarily - they also did that to most other Bangladeshis (90% of whom are sunni mulsim). They burnt whole villages which were suspected of housing freedom fighters and summarily executed those suspected of being freedom fighters. During the course of the 6 month war the Pakistani soldiers also rounded up and executed the academic cream of Bangladesh designed solely to impede their future progress. Other highlights were the pakistani army rolling a tank through the capital city, Dhaka, indiscriminately firing at people and buildings.
As for Qadir Mollah there were some difficulties with the process (disregarding how you might feel about the death penalty) including a scandal about the Tribunal being pressured to reach a quick decision and the former chairman of the tribunal discussing the case with an ex-pat in brussells (although he subsequently stood down). There was also the issue that while Qadir Mollah was originally convicted his original sentence was life imprisonment which was then appealed to the Supreme Court and altered to the Death Penalty. There is also the issue that he was prior to his execution a high ranking member of Jamaat Islaami - the hard line islamic party in bangladesh - who are also pro-pakistan and basically the remnant of the Razakars. They are anti-women, anti education, anti-hindu/buddhist and basically a huge pack of cunts.
All of which conveniently forgets that Qadir Mollah basically put up no defence suggesting that he didnt do the things they accused him of and basically said I am an old man now and it was a long time ago so how about be nice. He almost certainly (fuck it certainly) did the things he was accused of. Those things are certainly war crimes and deserve the highest punishment available.
