FM vows to bring back one killer of Bangabandhu in Mujib Year

Foreign Minister Dr A K Abdul Momen has expressed his hope to bring back home at least one of the remaining five fugitive convicted killers of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman within the Mujib Year.

“I hope, we will be able to bring back at least another (Bangabandhu’s) fugitive killers in the country within the Mujib Year,” he said after placing wreath at the Bangabandhu’s mazar in Tungipara of Gopalganj on Saturday.

Senior officials of the foreign ministry joined the minister to pay tribute to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman marking the Month of Mourning.

Momen said the foreign ministry gave special instructions to all Bangladesh missions abroad to hunt for fugitive convicted killers of the country’s founding father.

The government had traced out that Bangabandhu’s two convicted furtive killers — Rashed Chowdhury and Noor Chowdhury — are residing in the USA and Canada respectively, while the whereabouts of other three fugitives –Khandaker Abdur Rashid, Shariful Haque Dalim, and Moslehuddin Khan — are yet to be ascertained.

After knowing the location of the killers, the foreign ministry and the law ministry have been deeply been engaged with the US and the Canadian authorities to bring back Rashed Chowdhury and Noor Chowdhury.

Twelve ex-military officers were sentenced to death for the August 15, 1975 killing of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman along with most of his family members.

Among them, five sacked army personnel – Syed Farooq Rahman, Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan, AKM Mohiuddin Ahmed, Mohiuddin Ahmed and Bazlul Huda – were hanged at Dhaka Central Jail on January 28, 2010.

Another convict, sacked colonel Rashed Pasha, died a natural death in Zimbabwe while he was on the run.

Farooq Rahman, Shahriar Rashid Khan, Mohiuddin Ahmed of artillery faced the trials in the judge court while Huda was extradited from Thailand and another Mohiuddin known as Lancer Mohiuddin was sent back from the United States after the then district judge Golam Rasul delivered the judgment.

On April 12 last, sacked military captain Abdul Majed, one of the Bangabandhu’s fugitive killers hiding in India, was arrested in Dhaka and hanged at Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj.