Hope to Bring Back Another Bangabandhu Killer in Mujib Year: Momen

Foreign Minister Dr. AK Abdul Momen expressed his hope today to bring back at least one of the remaining five fugitive convicted killers of the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Nation Father within the Mujib Year, reports BSS.

"I hope that we will be able to get back at least another (Bangabandhu's) fugitive killer in the country during the Mujib Year (the centenary of the birth of Bangladesh's founding father)," he said.

He rendered remarks to the newsmen after paying deep homage to the Bangabandhu Sheik Mujibur Rahman Nation Parent by placing a wreath on his mazar here.

The foreign minister, along with his family members, also offered special prayer at the mazar of the founding father.

Dr. Momen said that the government is continuing its efforts to bring back all the remaining five Bangabandhu furtive killers. "We've already detected two fugitive Bangabandhu killers living in the USA and Canada ... we 're making every effort to bring them back," he said.

The Foreign Minister said that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina also wrote letters to her counterpart in those countries to give the killers back. "We 're thinking we'll be successful (to get the killers back)," he said.

The government had traced out that Bangabandhu’s two convicted furtive killers Rashed Chowdhury and Noor Chowdhury are now residing in the USA and Canada respectively.

After knowing the whereabouts of the killers, the foreign ministry and the law ministry have been deeply engaged with the US and the Canadian authorities to bring back these two absconding murderers.

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

Majed was on the run for nearly two and a half decades to evade justice and after his arrest, he said he had been hiding in India’s West Bengal for the past 23 years and returned to Bangladesh in March this year.

“It was a satisfaction that we had already been able to execute at least one of the fugitive killers (Majed) in this Mujib Year,” Momen said.

Twelve ex-military officers were sentenced to death on 15 August 1975 for the murder of Father Bangabandhu Sheik Mujibur Rahman, along with most of his family members, and five of them were executed while one died of natural death.

Five sacked army personnel – Syed Farooq Rahman, Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan, AKM Mohiuddin Ahmed, Mohiuddin Ahmed and Bazlul Huda – were hanged in Dhaka Central Jail on 28 January 2010, while another convict, Rashed Pasha, who had been sacked, died of natural death in Zimbabwe while on the run.

Farooq Rahman, Shahriar Rashid Khan, Mohiuddin Ahmed of artillery were brought before the court of justice while Huda was extradited from Thailand and another Mohiuddin known as Mohiuddin was sent back from the United States after the district judge Golam Rasul handed down the judgment.