Uproar outside a Bangladeshi court where a war crimes tribunal convicted and sentenced an Islamist party leader to death Thursday.<br/> <br />Sixty-one-year-old Mohammad Kamaruzzaman, assistant secretary general of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, was found guilty of genocide and torture of unarmed civilians during the 1971 war for independence from Pakistan.<br/> <br />War veterans were among hundreds who cheered the verdict, the fourth reached by the tribunal with more to come.<br/> <br />Some fear a repeat of deadly clashes between police and Islamist protesters after similar sentences were handed down earlier this year.<br/> <br />Bangladesh became part of Pakistan at the end of British colonial rule of India in 1947.<br/> <br />But the country, then known as East Pakistan, won independence with India's help in December 1971 following a nine-month war against then West Pakistan.
