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Kolkata: Bangladesh is trying to bring back two of the fugitive army officers who were involved in shooting dead the country\u2019s founding father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and members of his family in cold blood at their Dhaka house on August 15, 1975.<\/p>\n
Bangladesh\u2019s Law and Justice Minister Anisul Huq, in an exclusive interview with PTI, said that his country was negotiating a return of two \u201cself-confessed killers\u201d of Sheikh Mujib \u2013 Rashed Chowdhury from the US and SHBM Noor Chowdhury from Canada.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile the whereabouts of Major Shariful Haque Dalim, (a principal plotter behind the killing) is still not known, we know that Col Rashed Chowdhury is in the US and Noor Chowdhury, another of the coup plotter involved in the killing of Bangabandhu is in Canada. We are still in talks with the US on getting the killer officer back,\u201d said Mr Huq.<\/p>\n
Canada has laws which do not permit a person facing a death sentence at home to be extradited and this has proven to be a hurdle.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey killed the father of the nation and 17 members of his family\u2026Given the heinous nature of the crime, we have tried to convince Canada to return Noor Chowdhury,\u201d the minister said.<\/p>\n
The gruesome killing of Sheikh Mujib and his entire family save his two daughters \u2013 Sheikh Hasina and Sheikh Rehana \u2013 who were travelling abroad, at their Dhanmondi bungalow on India\u2019s Independence Day had 28-years-ago shaken the entire world.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are self-confessed killers and the available evidence is conclusive of their crime,\u201d Mr Huq, a London-trained senior advocate of the Bangladesh Supreme Court said.<\/p>\n
In 1975, a coterie of middle-level Army officers planned a coup to topple Sheikh Mujib\u2019s elected government and replace it with a military government. They chose August 15, India\u2019s Independence Day, to carry out the coup.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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