Jail Killing Day to be observed today

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The 31st anniversary of the jail killing of four national leaders and Liberation War heroes will be observed today (Saturday), reports UNB.
On this day in 1975, Syed Nazrul Islam, acting president of Bangladesh provisional government in 1971, Tajuddin Ahmed, prime minister, M Mansur Ali, finance minister, and AHM Qamaruzzaman, minister for home affairs, were gunned down in Dhaka Central Jail.
The day is observed as the 'Jail Killing Day'.
Awami League has chalked out programme to observe the day in a befitting but limited scale as the state of emergency is in force.
The programme includes hoisting of national flag at half-mast and black flag atop party offices, wearing of black badge, placing of wreaths at the portrait of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Banani graveyard, 'milad mahfil' and special prayer.
On November 4, the party will organise a discussion at the Engineers Institute auditorium at 4pm marking the day.
Acting General Secretary Syed Ashraful Islam has requested party leaders and workers to take part in the programmes.
Only 79 days after the assassination of the country's founding father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most of the members of his family on August 15, 1975, the power usurpers took the desperate bid.
In October, 2004, a Dhaka court sentenced three to death, awarded life imprisonment to 12 and acquitted five in the long-awaited verdict of the Jail Killing Case.
Those to walk to the gallows are Resalder (retd) Muslemuddin, Dafadar (dismissed) Marfat Ali Shah and Dafadar (dismissed) Abdul Hashem Mridha but all are now absconding.