The security measures that have been taken following the hanging of fundamentalist jammat -e-Islam secretery- general Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid 67,and BNP leader Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury 66 were hanged at dhaka central jail at 12.45AM,a senior jail official who witnessed the execution.Two top Bangladeshi oppositions leaders were hanged yesterday for war crimes committed during the 1971 war of independence against pakistan after the country's president rejected their last -ditch marcy petitions to escape the gaiiows..
Thousands of extra police and border guards have been deployed in Dhaka and other major cities and towns of Bangladesh in advance of a general strike called to protest against the executions of two opposition politicians for war crimes.Security was especially tight in the hometowns of the two executed men whose funerals were held on Sunday morning.Supporters of the ruling Awami League greeted the executions - carried out at Dhaka's Central Prison shortly before 1am on Sunday - by holding street parties and distributing sweets to children.
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