DHAKA – The International Crimes Tribunal in Bangladesh sentenced four men to death on Tuesday morning and one to life in prison for their crimes committed during the separation war in 1971. The International Crimes Tribunal, led by its Chairman Justice Anwarul Haque, said the four were involved in the death of nine people. Only one of the suspects was in court for the verdict. After returning to power in January 2009, Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina established the first tribunal in March 2010, almost 40 years after the 1971 war. Three leaders of opposition Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami party Abdul Quader Molla, Muhammad Kamaruz Zaman and Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid have already been executed for war crimes. Apart from them, Jamaat Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid and opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leader Salaudin Quader Chowdhury were executed on November 22 last year. Both the BNP and Jamaat have dismissed the court as a government “show trial”, saying it is a domestic set-up without the oversight or involvement of the United Nations.