Source- NDTV-
Metropolis Desk-
Bangladesh is attempting to apprehend two of the army officers who are still at large who were engaged in the August 15, 1975, cold-blooded murder of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his family at their Dhaka home.
In an exclusive interview with PTI, Bangladesh’s Law, and Justice Minister Anisul Huq revealed that his nation was in talks to bring back two “confessed killers” of Sheikh Mujib, Rashed Chowdhury from the US and SHBM Noor Chowdhury from Canada.
While Major Shariful Haque Dalim’s whereabouts are still unknown, we do know that Col. Rashed Chowdhury is in the US and that Noor Chowdhury, another coup plotter who participated in the murder of Bangabandhu, is in Canada. The killing officer’s return is still a topic of discussion with the US, according to Mr. Huq.
Because of Canadian rules, it is not possible to extradite someone who is serving a death sentence at home, which has proven to be a challenge.
“They murdered 17 members of his family, including the father of the country…We have attempted to persuade Canada to send Noor Chowdhury back due to the severe nature of the crime,” the minister stated.
The world was shaken by the brutal murder of Sheikh Mujib and his entire family on India’s Independence Day, 28 years ago, in their Dhanmondi house, except his two daughters, Sheikh Hasina and Sheikh Rehana, who were traveling abroad.
The evidence is irrefutable of their crime and they are “confessed killers,” according to Mr. Huq, a top counsel for the Bangladesh Supreme Court who had his legal training in London.
1975 saw the plotting of a coup by a group of middle-ranking Army officers to overthrow Sheikh Mujib’s elected government and install a military regime in its stead. The coup was carried out on August 15, which is also India’s Independence Day.
Early on August 15, 1975, four groups of soldiers commanded by the coup organizers reached Dhaka. After an argument, the first group proceeded inside Sheikh Mujib’s home and killed him. They then slaughtered all of the other family members and personal servants there, including the family’s expectant daughter-in-law.
Other gangs seized control of the radio station, significant government structures, and the city’s Savar security forces, disarming them.
Four additional Awami League officials were detained and imprisoned at the Dhaka jail before being killed there, including the first Prime Minister of Bangladesh Tajuddin Ahmed, a second former PM Mansur Ali, a former vice president named Syed Nazrul Islam, and a former home minister named AHM Qamaruzzaman.
Bangladesh observes a national day of sorrow on August 15 as a result.
Mr. Huq declared, “We have worked nonstop to find and prosecute Bangabandhu’s killers.” Abdul Majed, one of the murderers and a former captain in the Bangladeshi army, was hanged after being returned from overseas two years ago.
Ten years earlier, in January 2010, five other prisoners were put to death: Syed Farooq Rahman, Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan, Bazlul Huda, AKM Mohiuddin Ahmed, and Mohiuddin Ahmed. Aziz Pasha, the final prisoner, died in Zimbabwe.
