FM seeks expatriates’ support to recreate Bangabandhu’s killers
Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has sought support from Bangladeshi expatriates living in different countries alongside the government initiative to recreate the rest of the five fugitive convicted killers of Father of the country Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and execute the verdict.
"Still five killers remain fugitive. One of these is in america while another one in Canada," he said in a reaction over the arrest of Abdul Majed, a convicted killer of Bangabandhu, reports UNB.
Dr Momen hoped that it will be possible to bring back all of those other killers to execute the verdict through the "Mujib Borsho."
Because of this, he said, cooperation from Bangladeshi expatriates is needed apart from the government initiative.
Dr Momen said the arrest of killer Majed came nearly as good news amid the crisis following the coronavirus outbreak.
He said the federal government had an expectation to recreate at least one fugitive killer through the 'Mujib Borsho'.
Abdul Majed was arrested from Dhaka early Tuesday.
He was produced before the court of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate AM Zulfiqar Hayat who sent him to jail.
On August 15, 1975, through the assassination of Bangabandhu, Majed, Noor and Risaldar Moslehuddin along with others were present there when he was a lieutenant.
On November 19, 2009, the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court upheld the death penalty of 12 convicted former army officials for the assassination of Bangabandhu and his members of the family.
The fugitive killers are former Lt Col Khandaker Abdur Rashid, SHBM Noor Chowdhury, Shariful Haque Dalim, Rashed Chowdhury and Risaldar Moslehuddin.
Of them, the government knew the whereabouts of Noor Chowdhury, Rashed Chowdhury and Moslehuddin while it had not been sure about the other three fugitives -- Rashid, Dalim and Majed.
According to government sources, Noor Chowdhury has been moving into Canada and Rashed Chowdhury in america.
