Sherpur: It is indeed a happy day for Sohagpur’s people, especially the widows, as the man who perpetrated terrible violence on them more than four decades ago has been hanged at last.

They have expressed their happiness after the execution of Jamaat-e-Islami assistant secretary general Muhammad Kamruzzaman for his crimes against humanity during the War of Independence in 1971, reports BSS.

Shohagpur saw the brutality of Kamaruazzaman, the chief organiser of erstwhile Al-Badr in greater Mymensingh, who, along with his cohorts, killed about 160 people there and raped theier wives during the liberation war on 25 July in 1971.

Since then Shohagpur is known as ‘Bidhoba Palli, the village of the widows.

The widows, many of whom are still alive, of this village of Sherpur’s Nalitabari had to wait for 44 years to get justice.

After his execution, Kamaruzzaman’s body is being taken to Sherpur for burial.

All preparations are set to bury him at Bajitkhila union’s Mudipara of Sherpur sadar upazila, Kafil Uddin Ahmed, elder brother of Kamruzzaman told BSS.

Superintendent of Police Sherpur, Mehedul Karim said BGB, RAB and Battalion Ansar led by executive magistrate are patrolling the Bajitkhali area to avert any untoward incident. Law enforcers have also been deployed in the key entry points to Sherpur.