19 SENTENCED TO DIE FOR SLAYING RAHMAN.(News) From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) | Date: November 9, 1998 | COPYRIGHT 1998 Seattle Post-Intelligencer. All rights reserved. Reproduced with the permission of the Dialog Corporation by Gale Group. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

A judge convicted 15 former military commanders yesterday and sentenced them to death for the 1975 assassination of the country's first prime minister.

Four others, including a former junior minister for information, were acquitted in the killing of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, father of current Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

Thousands of followers of Sheikh Mujib, as he was popularly known in Bangladesh, danced in the streets outside the courtroom to celebrate the ...

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