Ghulam Azam

Ghulam Azam (; 7 November 1922 – 23 October 2014) was the Ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh until 2000.Prof. Ghulam Azam Retires , Islamic Voice, December 2006. Azam hated the idea of independence of Bangladesh during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War.H. Evans in 'The Post-colonial States of South Asia:Democracy, Development and Identity', edited by A. Shastri and A. Wilson, Palgrave, 2001, p. 71. Azam was convicted for war crimes in July 2013.

Azam died in Dhaka, Bangladesh from a stroke, aged 91.

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