Jail Killing Day observed

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On the occasion of the Jail Killing Day (Nov 3) Awami League leaders offered munazat after placing wreaths at the graves of the slain national leaders (portraits inset) at Banani Graveyard in the city Saturday. — Focus Bangla

Black flags dominated skyline of the country Saturday as the nation recalled with deep grief the assassination of four crucial independence leaders who were killed in captivity inside Dhaka Central Jail on November 3 in 1975, reports BSS.
In observance of the day, central leaders of the ruling Awami League (AL) and its associate bodies led by its acting president Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury placed wreaths at the portrait of Bangabandhu at Bangabandhu Memorial Museum at Dhanmondi in the morning.
Later, wreaths also were laid at Banani graves of Syed Nazrul Islam, Tajuddin Ahmed and Captain M Mansur Ali and at the family grave of AHM Quamaruzzaman at Kadirganj in Rajshahi city.
AL stalwarts also placed wreaths at the graves of martyrs of the August 15 carnage at Banani, where officering of fateha, munajat and milad mahfil also were held seeking divine blessings for eternal peace of the martyrs.
On the fateful night of November 3 in 1975, Acting President Syed Nazrul Islam, Prime Minister Tajuddin Ahmad, ministers Captain M Mansur Ali and AHM Quamaruzzaman of the first Bangladesh government in exile were brutally killed inside the Dhaka Central Jail in captivity by a group of mid- ranking disgruntled army men.
Special prayers were offered paying glowing tributes to the four slain national leaders who steered the Liberation War in 1971, in absence of Bangabandhu, who was in captivity in a jail in Pakistan.
The Supreme Court of Bangladesh is set to retry the still indisposed case filed decades ago to expose to justice the assassins of the November 3 carnage of 1975.