Zia was involved in Aug 15 carnage, jail killing on Nov 3: Hasan

Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud said BNP founder Ziaur Rahman and his gang of killers had unequivocal involvement with both Bangabandhu assassination on August 15 and murders of four national leaders inside Dhaka jail on November 3 in 1975, reports BSS.
"So, BNP never expresses grief on Jail Killing Day. Now the party has turned into people's opponent due to its nasty terrorist activities during the hartal, which are heinous than those of dacoits and thieves," he said while replying to reporters after paying homage to national leaders at Banani graveyard.
Hasan, also Awami League joint general secretary, was among the party's central leaders to lay wreaths at graves of four national leaders at Banani graveyard and earlier they also paid tributes to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman by placing wreaths at his portrait at Dhanmondi-32.
The minister said the four national leaders - Syed Nazrul Islam, Tajuddin Ahmad, Captain Mansur Ali and AHM Quamruzzaman were political colleagues of Bangabandhu and in death, they also accompanied the great leader as they were also assassinated in the same year following Bangabandhu's brutal assassination along with most of his family members.
Even before being assassinated, they didn't betray the ideals of Bangabandhu and never derailed themselves from their principles by any kinds of persuasion.
The four national leaders showed how to accept martyrdom by staying unwavering towards ideology, he said.