Bangladesh is making an attempt to convey again two of the fugitive military officers who have been concerned in capturing useless the nation’s founding father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and members of his household in chilly blood at their Dhaka home on August 15, 1975.
Bangladesh’s Law & Justice Minister Anisul Huq in an unique interview with PTI stated that his nation was negotiating a return of two “self-confessed killers” of Sheikh Mujib – Rashed Chowdhury from the US and SHBM Noor Chowdhury from Canada.
“While the whereabouts of Major Shariful Haque Dalim, (a principal plotter behind the killing) is still not known, we know that Col Rashed Chowdhury is in the US and Noor Chowdhury, another of the coup plotter involved in the killing of Bangabandhu is in Canada. We are still in talks with the US on getting the killer officer back,” stated Huq.
Canada has legal guidelines which don’t allow an individual dealing with a dying sentence at residence to be extradited and this has confirmed to be a hurdle. “They killed the father of the nation and 17 members of his family âæ Given the heinous nature of the crime, we have tried to convince Canada to return Noor Chowdhury,” the minister stated.
The grotesque killing of Sheikh Mujib and his total household save his two daughters- Sheikh Hasina and Sheikh Rehana – who have been travelling overseas, at their Dhanmondi bungalow on India’s independence day had 28-years-ago shaken the complete world.
“They are self-confessed killers and the available evidence is conclusive of their crime,” Huq, a London-trained senior advocate of the Bangladesh Supreme Court stated.
In 1975, a coterie of middle-level Army officers deliberate a coup to topple Sheikh Mujib’s elected authorities and change it with a army authorities. They selected August 15, India’s independence day, to hold out the coup.
Four teams of troopers led by the coup plotters entered Dhaka within the early hours of August 15, 1975. The first group entered Sheikh Mujib’s home and killed him after an argument after which went on to slaughter all family members in addition to private employees current, together with a pregnant daughter-in-law of the household.
Other teams took over the radio station, key authorities buildings and disarmed safety forces stationed at Savar within the metropolis.
Four Awami League leaders – the primary Prime Minister of Bangladesh Tajuddin Ahmed, one other former PM Mansur Ali, a former Vice President Syed Nazrul Islam and former residence minister AHM Qamaruzzaman – have been additionally arrested and incarcerated in Dhaka jail, and later murdered in jail.
Bangladesh consequently marks August 15, as a nationwide day of mourning.
“We have relentlessly tried to track down and bring to justice the killers of Bangabandhu,” stated Huq.
Two years in the past, Abdul Majed, a former captain within the Bangladesh military and one of many killers, was hanged after being introduced again from overseas. Ten years earlier than that, 5 different convicts — Syed Farooq Rahman, Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan, Bazlul Huda, AKM Mohiuddin Ahmed and Mohiuddin Ahmed — have been executed in January 2010, whereas a fifth Aziz Pasha died in Zimbabwe.
Edited By:
Sudeep Lavania
Published On:
Aug 14, 2023
