Govt will bring back at least one Bangabandhu's killer in Mujib Year

Senior officials of the Foreign Ministry, led by Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen, have paid profound tributes to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman by placing wreath at his mazar in Tungipara, reports BSS.

The minister along with foreign ministry's secretary Masud Bin Momen, additional secretaries and director generals of different wings placed a wreath at the Bangabandhu's mazar and offered special prayer.

Foreign ministry's birth centenary cell organised the trip for the officials marking the Month of Mourning (August).

After paying the tribute, Momen expressed his hope to bring back home at least one of the remaining five fugitive convicted killers of Bangabandhu within the Mujib Year marking the birth centenary of Bangladesh founding father.

"I hope, we will be able to bring back at least another (Bangabandhu's) fugitive killers in the country within the Mujib Year," he told local newsmen there.

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 fugitive 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 engaged with the US and the Canadian authorities to bring back these two absconding murderers.

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.

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