April 21, 2020
Bangladesh hangs Captain Abdul Mazed,
a ‘killer’ of its founding father Sheikh Mujib
Bangladesh Media Report
Abdul Mazed, one of the convicts in the killings of founding father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most members of the family on Aug 15, 1975, has finally been executed by hanging.
The execution took place at the Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj at 12:01am on April 12, 2020, four and a half decades after the massacre, according to jail officials.
After a lengthy trial, the court convicted 12 suspects and five of the self-proclaimed killers were hanged on Jan 28, 2010. They were-- Syed Faruque Rahman, Sultan Shahariar Rashid Khan, Bazlul Huda, Mohiuddin Ahmed and AKM Mohiuddin.
Mazed was one of six absconding convicts along with Abdur Rashid, Shariful Haque Dalim, M Rashed Chowdhury, SHMB Noor Chowdhury and Risaldar Moslemuddin.
The almost effortless arrest of Mazed came last week when the country is on lockdown and the police are on the streets to ensure that people stay at home and avoid the risk of infection amid a novel coronavirus outbreak.
He was believed to be in India for over two decades following the return of the Awami League to power in 1996, which opened the path towards the trial of the killers of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most members of the family on Aug 15, 1975.
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s daughters the incumbent Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Sheikh Rehana survived the massacre as they were abroad at the time.
Q M Jalal Khan, the author of Bangladesh: Political and Literary Reflections on a Divided Country, writes on the execution of Captain Abdul Mazed:
It was the midnight of April 11, 2020, at the start of the morrow. He whom millions of Bangladeshi nationals consider to be one of August 15, 1975 heroes was hanged to death, but they cannot speak up due to the severely authoritarian oppression and repression unleashed on them for about twelve years by the Hasina regime. Captain Mazed was also one of the fascist Hasina Wazed’s nearly a dozen judicial murders of nationally well-known political and military figures, let alone hundreds of thousands of extrajudicial killings, forced abductions, impious imprisonments and unlawful lawsuits, all combined. Read More
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