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Efforts intensified to bring back fugitive killers of Bangabandhu: Quader

Published : Saturday, 15 August, 2020 at 9:56 PM  Count : 598

Efforts intensified to bring back fugitive killers of Bangabandhu: Quader

Efforts intensified to bring back fugitive killers of Bangabandhu: Quader

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Saturday said initiatives have been intensified to execute the fugitive killers of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman after bringing them back home.

“The government has intensified the political and diplomatic initiatives to bring back five fugitive killers of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman,” he said after paying floral respect to the martyrdoms of August 15 at Banani graveyard marking the National Mourning Day.

Quader said, “We want to assure the nation that the diplomatic effort have been intensified to bring back the fugitive killers of Bangabandhu. Our goal is to build a corruption-free Bangladesh imbued with the spirit of non-communalism, as dreamt by Bangabandhu, under the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.”

Participating in an online discussion on the National Mourning Day arranged by the Green University of Bangladesh, Quader, also Awami League general secretary, said the people now feel free as the vested quarter that used to observe birth day on the Mourning Day has now stopped it.

Ziaur Rahman and his party BNP most of the time opposed the investigation and trial of the Bangabandhu murder case, he said, adding: “It is not beyond the perception that the main target of the (Bangabandhu) killing was to take revenge of 1971.”

“They had a plan to halt the journey of Bangladesh as an independent state …Bangabandhu founded the country after leading a long struggle and Liberation War by opposing the then world superpower,” he said.

To keep the name ‘Bangladesh’ intact, the AL leader said, the 15 August massacre was held to administer the country with the characteristics and ideals of Pakistan.

After consultation with the planners of August carnage, killer Mustaque had stopped the trial of the killing of Father of the Nation through enacting the notorious indemnity ordinance, Quader pointed out.

Later, Ziaur Rahman had legalized all the illegal and unconstitutional affairs by including the Indemnity Ordinance in the fifteenth constitutional amendment in 1979 and sealed the scope of holding trial of Bangabandhu murder case, he said, adding that it had continued for two decades, he said.

The subsequent governments did not take further initiative to hold the trial of Bangabandhu murder case due to the ordinance. They [the governments] virtually had taken position in favour of the killers, he added.

In 1991, the Awami League had demanded to null and void the indemnity ordinance, said Quader, adding that but BNP in that time said that “it would be never cancelled as it is a part of the constitution.”

After coming to power, Obaidul Quader said, the AL government had scraped the Indemnity Ordinance and started the trial of Bangabandhu murder case. But BNP halted the Bangabandhu trial process after coming to power in 2001.

The long awaited trail of the Bangabandhu murder case again reopened in 2008 when the Awami League came to power, he said, adding: “Most of the perpetrators behind the murder were executed and five of the fugitive killers are still staying abroad.”

Chaired by Green University Vice chancellor Prof Dr M Golam Samdani Fakir, the meeting was also addressed, among others, by State Minister for Information Dr Murad Hasan, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of US-Bangla Group Lt. Gen (retd) M Mainul Islam and pro VC Prof Dr M Abdur Razzaque.

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