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Ashrafuz Zaman Khan

Ashrafuz Zaman Khan was a member of the Central Committee of the Islami Chhatra Sangha during the Bangladesh Liberation War, and was accused of war crimes.

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Ashrafuz Zaman Khan was born in East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh) and became an imam, and in 1971 during the Bangladesh Liberation War he was responsible for shooting 7 teachers of Dhaka University in the killing zones of Mirpur while a commander of the Al-Badr militia. After the war, he fled to the United Kingdom and became a member of Radio Pakistan and he led the Queens, New York City branch of the Islamic Circle of North America. In 2013 he was sentenced to death for war crimes committed during the war. 

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