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Summary Delawar Hossain Sayedee has been charged with genocide, arson, rape and religious persecution.
A special Bangladeshi war crimes court on Monday charged its first suspect with atrocities including genocide, arson, rape and religious persecution during the countrys 1971 war of independence.Delawar Hossain Sayedee, a leader of Bangladeshs largest Islamic party, will be tried at the tribunal set up last year to investigate those accused of crimes committed during the nine-month war against Pakistan.Judge Nizamul Haq read out 20 charges to Sayedee in a crowded Dhaka courtroom, an AFP correspondent at the scene said.
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