Efforts on to bring back six killers: IGP

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BSS, Dhaka :
The government has taken all necessary initiatives to bring home back the six fugitive killers of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
“We would issue letters to the Interpol regarding the current status of Bangabandhu’s absconding killers aimed at bringing them back home soon, as Bangladesh prepares to observe the 40th National Mourning Day on August 15,” Inspector General of Police AKM Shahidul Hoque told BSS here yesterday.
The grateful nation would recall Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman with profound gratitude on August 15 this year,  
marking the 40th anniversary of the greatest Bangalees’s martyrdom.
The IGP said, Bangladesh police would seek help from the Interpol to locate and bring back the six out of 12 convicted fugitive killers from abroad, adding, “we are trying our best to bring them back home”.
Shahidul Hoque said two of the absconding Bangabandhu Murder Trial convicts, former Lt Col SHMB Noor Chowdhury is staying in Canada and Lt Col Rashed Chowdhury in the United States.
He said, legal and diplomatic efforts are on to bring back the six fugitive killers home, adding “the government has sent information along with photographs of the fugitive killers to important airports of the world through the Interpol to arrest them from anywhere they are.”
The IGP said a taskforce headed by the Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs held several meetings on this matter, so that these convicted killers could be brought back home for their execution.
Earlier, Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali held a bilateral discussion with US Secretary of State John F Kerry at the US Department of State in Washington DC in February this year for repatriation of these heinous killers.
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