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Bangladesh court awards death penalty to Paresh BaruaTNN | Jan 31, 2014, 12.20 AM IST GUWAHATI: After giving execution orders against several of his own men, anti-talks Ulfa leader<http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Ulfa-leader> Paresh Barua found himself at the receiving end on Thursday when a special court in Chittagong awarded death penalty to him in absentia, along with 13 other Bangladeshi nationals, for smuggling in 10 truckloads of firearms in 2004. The consignment was meant for Ulfa and Barua was to receive it. Barua and former Bangladesh additional secretary of industries ministry Nurul Amin were on the run since the arms recovery. Retired IPS officer <http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/IPS-officer> and now security adviser to the chief minister, GM Srivastava, who led the biggest and most successful offensive against Ulfa, said the verdict will have a huge impact on Barua and his activities now. "After this verdict, he has now become an international criminal as a gunrunner. This order will now make all his movements difficult as this case involves more than one nation. The court order also proves that Barua is only a criminal and not a revolutionary as he tends to project himself," Srivastava told TOI. Recently, Barua had ordered execution of as many as 12 of his men, including a commander, on charges of conspiring with security forces against the outfit. Barua, who is reportedly shuttling between anti-talks Ulfa's central headquarters in Myanmar and southern China, is also involved in gunrunning. The huge cache of arms and ammunition included 4,930 sophisticated firearms of different types, 840 rocket launchers, 300 rockets, 27,020 grenades, 2,000 grenade-launching tubes, 6,392 magazines and 11.41 million bullets. The seizure was made on April 2, 2004, at the jetty of Chittagong Urea Fertilizer Ltd. The Bangladesh media reported that judge SM Mojibur Rahman of Chittagong Metropolitan Special Tribunal-1 handed over death penalty to 14 accused, which include Jamaat chief and former industries minister Motiur Rahman Nizami and then state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar. The other convicts are former directorate general of forces intelligence (DGFI) director Maj-Gen (retd) Rezzakul Haider Chowdhury, former National Security Intelligence DG Brig-Gen (retd) Abdur Rahim and deputy director Maj (retd) Liakat Hossain. Bangladesh daily Daily Star reported, "Two cases - one under the Arms Act for illegal possession of firearms and the other under the Special Powers Act, 1974, for smuggling firearms - were filed at Karnaphuli Police Station the following day of the arms recovery." The newspaper reported that "earlier on Monday, the high court cleared the way for a trial court to deliver verdict in the cases by rejecting four petitions to interrogate first investigation officer and change the court of the accused." -- Peace Is Doable -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
