BSS, Dhaka :
Bangladesh Police forwarded a letter afresh to the Interpol to know current status of the six fugitive killers of Father of the Nation Bangabandu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as they are changing their locations.
Police and officials earlier said the fugitives
appeared to be on movements from one country to another or were changing their locations to evade the security clampdown.
“We have sent a fresh letter to the Interpol through the Home Ministry few days back requesting it to inform us the latest location of the six fugitive killers as they have been changing their locations,” Inspector General of Police (IGP) AKM Shahidul Hoque told BSS.
All necessary measures have already been taken to bring the fugitive killers back as the nation is set to recall Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman with profound gratitude on August 15 this year, marking his 40th anniversary, he also said. 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.
The U.S. Ambassador to Bangladesh Marcia Stephens Bloom Bernicat on Thursday assured of assistance of bringing back Bangabandhu’s killer Rashed Chowdhury and war criminal Ashrafuzzaman Khan, who are believed to be in the USA. She made the assurance after paying a courtesy call to State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam at his secretariat office on Thursday.
The IGP 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.”
He 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. The other fugitive killers are: sacked Lt. Col. Khondokar Abdur Rashid and Lt. Col. Shariful Haque Dalim, while the Foreign office in Dhaka earlier confirmed the natural death of one of the fugitives, sacked Lt. Col. Aziz Pasha, in Zimbabwe.
In September 1997, warrants of arrest were issued against the fugitive killers through Interpol while the government in January 2010 got the warrants renewed as required under the Interpol rules on expiry of 10 years of the original order.
Twelve former army officers were handed down death sentences for masterminding and carrying out the August 15, 1975 carnage under a protracted trial process that began in 1996, when Awami League returned to power and scrapped an indemnity act that until then protected these killers from justice.
Five of them, who faced the trial in person or were tracked down subsequently, were hanged on January 28 in 2010 after the apex Appellate Division cleared ways for their execution as they lost their last legal battle.
They were former lieutenants colonel Farookur Rahman, Mohiuddin Ahmed (artillery), Shahriar Rashid Khan and AKM Mohiuddin Ahmed (lancer) and ex-major Bazlul Huda.
Huda was taken back home from Thailand after Dhaka and Bangkok signed an extradition treaty coinciding with the date of the trial court verdict while the United States returned sacked Lt. Col. AKM Mohiuddin Ahmed during the past military-backed interim government despite the absence of an extradition treaty. The post-1975 military regimes also rewarded many of them with diplomatic assignments abroad and allowed others to float and run political parties at home until 1996, when Awami League returned to power.
Bangladesh Police forwarded a letter afresh to the Interpol to know current status of the six fugitive killers of Father of the Nation Bangabandu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as they are changing their locations.
Police and officials earlier said the fugitives
appeared to be on movements from one country to another or were changing their locations to evade the security clampdown.
“We have sent a fresh letter to the Interpol through the Home Ministry few days back requesting it to inform us the latest location of the six fugitive killers as they have been changing their locations,” Inspector General of Police (IGP) AKM Shahidul Hoque told BSS.
All necessary measures have already been taken to bring the fugitive killers back as the nation is set to recall Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman with profound gratitude on August 15 this year, marking his 40th anniversary, he also said. 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.
The U.S. Ambassador to Bangladesh Marcia Stephens Bloom Bernicat on Thursday assured of assistance of bringing back Bangabandhu’s killer Rashed Chowdhury and war criminal Ashrafuzzaman Khan, who are believed to be in the USA. She made the assurance after paying a courtesy call to State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam at his secretariat office on Thursday.
The IGP 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.”
He 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. The other fugitive killers are: sacked Lt. Col. Khondokar Abdur Rashid and Lt. Col. Shariful Haque Dalim, while the Foreign office in Dhaka earlier confirmed the natural death of one of the fugitives, sacked Lt. Col. Aziz Pasha, in Zimbabwe.
In September 1997, warrants of arrest were issued against the fugitive killers through Interpol while the government in January 2010 got the warrants renewed as required under the Interpol rules on expiry of 10 years of the original order.
Twelve former army officers were handed down death sentences for masterminding and carrying out the August 15, 1975 carnage under a protracted trial process that began in 1996, when Awami League returned to power and scrapped an indemnity act that until then protected these killers from justice.
Five of them, who faced the trial in person or were tracked down subsequently, were hanged on January 28 in 2010 after the apex Appellate Division cleared ways for their execution as they lost their last legal battle.
They were former lieutenants colonel Farookur Rahman, Mohiuddin Ahmed (artillery), Shahriar Rashid Khan and AKM Mohiuddin Ahmed (lancer) and ex-major Bazlul Huda.
Huda was taken back home from Thailand after Dhaka and Bangkok signed an extradition treaty coinciding with the date of the trial court verdict while the United States returned sacked Lt. Col. AKM Mohiuddin Ahmed during the past military-backed interim government despite the absence of an extradition treaty. The post-1975 military regimes also rewarded many of them with diplomatic assignments abroad and allowed others to float and run political parties at home until 1996, when Awami League returned to power.
