Bangladesh executes Mujib killers

[gromell]

Its 35 years now to his murder, and as per i know they were in jails from years.

If 35 yrs is hurry then what would be late buddy ? =D

wise observation. now please send 6 of them back from your country They are hiding there.

 

[gromell]

5 Bangabandhu killers hanged​

Govt goes for execution 14 hours after review petition rejected; bodies sent to their village homes with police escort

Five condemned killers of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman were hanged early today at Dhaka Central Jail amid tight security.

The death sentences of the five were executed around 14 and a half hours after the Appellate Division dismissed their pleas to review the Supreme Court verdict that confirmed capital punishment to 12 former army officers including the five petitioners on November 19 last year.

The dismissal paved the way for executing the five killers of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most of his family members any time within January 31.

"Sultan Shahriar Rashid and Syed Farooq Rahman were the first to walk the gallows at 12:05am. They were handcuffed and their heads were covered in black hoods in the final minutes to midnight," Dhaka Deputy Commissioner Zillar Rahman told The Daily Star soon after he walked out of the jail premises around 1:45am.

Two hangmen put two nooses around the necks of the two condemned killers. Two other hangmen--Hafiz and Shahjahan--were ready to pull levers to slide apart the scaffolds.

It was 12:05am. Dhaka Jail Superintendent Touhidul Islam dropped a handkerchief from his hand to give signal to the hangmen. The two chief hangmen pulled the levers.

Sultan Shahriar and Farooq were kept hanging for half an hour to confirm their death, witnesses said.

At 12:35am, two other killers of Bangabandhu--AKM Mohiuddin and Bazlul Huda--were brought to the gallows. They were also executed in a similar fashion.

Then it was the turn for Mohiuddin Ahmed. He was brought to a gallows at 1:05am and was hanged following all rituals.

The authorities had taken up a three-layer security measure for the execution.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion, police and armed police battalion were deployed around Dhaka Central Jail. Vehicular movement was restricted on the road in front of the jail gate.

Besides, law enforcement and intelligence agencies were kept alert across the country to avert any untoward incident.

As the news spread earlier that the five convicts would be executed, several hundred people started gathering at the jail gate in the evening, reported our staff correspondents Rashidul Hasan and Shaheen Mollah. A lot of people brought out processions in different parts of the capital including Bangabandhu's residence in Dhanmondi and Dhaka University campus.

Civil Surgeon Mushfiqur Rahman, Inspector General (Prisons) Ashraful Islam Khan, Deputy Commissioner Zillar Rahman, four magistrates led by the Dhaka district additional deputy commissioner, Home Secretary Abdus Sobhan Sikder and Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner AKM Shahidul Hoque arrived at the jail after 10:00pm yesterday.

Jail sources said they bathed the convicts around 11:00am. Around half an hour later the civil surgeon and two other doctors conducted medical check-ups of the convicts.

Earlier, the two gallows beside the condemned cells in the jail were prepared for the execution.

The compound was lit with floodlights around 11:00pm last night.

The bodies of the five were sent to their village homes by five ambulances by 3:30am under police and Rab escort after conducting post mortem, said Jail Superintendent Touhidul Islam.

People were seen throwing shoes at an ambulance carrying one of the dead bodies.

The five hangmen who performed the execution are Hafiz, Mohammad Shahjahan, Faruq, Raju and Sanwar.

REVIEW PETITION DISMISSAL
Earlier yesterday, following the dismissal of his review petition, convict Syed Farooq Rahman in the afternoon appealed to the president for clemency, which President Zillur Rahman rejected.

Dhaka Jail Superintendent Touhidul Islam last night confirmed The Daily Star that they received the president's rejection order.

The Appellate Division rejected the review petitions as they contained no new arguments and any legal grounds for reviewing the Supreme Court judgment confirming the death sentences.

In all the petitions, the counsel of the convicts reiterated points that had already been argued during the hearing of their appeals against the High Court verdict. The HC had rejected those pleas.

The four-member bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice Md Tafazzul Islam pronounced the order yesterday morning.

The other members of the Appellate Division bench were justices BK Das, Md Muzammel Hossain and SK Sinha. They heard arguments on the review petitions for three days from January 24.

Killers Syed Farooq Rahman, Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan, Mohiuddin Ahmed, Bazlul Huda and AKM Mohiuddin Ahmed, who were in condemned cells of Dhaka Central Jail, had filed the review petitions with the Supreme Court against its verdict.

Law Minister Shafique Ahmed told reporters that as per jail code, the jail authorities should execute the convicts between the 21st and 28th days after the trial court issued death warrants against them.

The death warrants were issued on January 3 and the countdown started the same day, Shafique said, adding that this means the last date for execution is January 31.

Earlier in the day, the law minister held a meeting at his office with Home Minister Sahara Khatun, State Minister for Law Quamrul Islam, Chief State Counsel Anisul Huq, Attorney General Mahbubey Alam, Additional Law Secretary Anwarul Haque, Home Secretary Abdus Sobhan Sikder, Inspector General of Prisons Brig Gen Ashraful Islam Khan and Dhaka Jail Superintendent Touhidul Islam.

The meeting was held to decide the next course of action following the passage of the SC orders.

On November 19 last year, the Supreme Court awarded death penalty to 12 convicts. Apart from the five executed today, six are on the run and one died.

In an instant reaction to the dismissal of the review petitions, Chief State Counsel Anisul Huq and Attorney General Mahbubey Alam told reporters that they are happy with the apex court's order as they got justice in the case.

"Our fight was for establishing the rule of law and justice, not envy, and we got justice," Anisul Huq said.

Mahbubey Alam said the trial proceeding of one of the most heinous killings in history came to an end with the dismissal of the review petitions.

Barrister Abdullah-Al Mamun, lawyer for two convicts, told The Daily Star that they accepted the SC orders although they were disappointed with the dismissal of the review petitions.

Mamun urged the prime minister to show mercy to the convicts as a gesture of kindness.

FAROOQ'S MERCY PETITION
Convict Farooq Rahman sought presidential clemency through the jail authority.

The jail authorities forwarded the petition to the law ministry through the home ministry for legal opinion, a law ministry official told The Daily Star. But the law ministry subsequently opined against presidential mercy to Farooq.

The law ministry sent back the petition to the home ministry, saying although it is the president's prerogative to grant mercy, it would not be judicious to pardon the condemned convicts of Bangabandhu murder case.

Three other condemned former army officers--Mohiuddin Ahmed, AKM Mohiuddin Ahmed and Bazlul Huda--earlier sought mercy from the president, which the president rejected on January 18.

 

[gromell]

Hasina offers ‘shokrana’ namaj​

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UNB, Dhaka

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina offered “shokrana” namaj and recited from holy Quran at her official residence Jamuna early Thursday after execution of death sentence of five killers of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

The prime minister expressed satisfaction over the execution and called upon the countrymen and the party leaders and activists to resist any conspiracy with patience, reports private television channels.

The execution was carried out minutes after Wednesday midnight.

 

[TopCat]

wise observation. now please send 6 of them back from your country They are hiding there.

Rashid and Dalim is in Pakistan. One in USA, One in Canada, One in Libiya and another one is in Kenya. USA is going to send one back soon and so does Canada. BD should press Kenya hard to extradite.

 

[notsuperstitious]

I hope god does not make me so pious that I start calling murderers of children and women heroes of my nation.

 

[TopCat]

I hope god does not make me so pious that I start calling murderers of children and women heroes of my nation.

These are the defeated crooks of 1971 who thought they settled the score in 1975, they are not muslims. Now you could say the killers were freedom fighter as well but they were young, undisciplined (some even lost job due to that) and brain washed. They were just the pawn in the whole game.

 

[Awesome]

wise observation. now please send 6 of them back from your country They are hiding there.

Try them in Pakistan. Bangladesh and Pakistan now enjoy cordial relations its best you utilize diplomatic channels.

 

[afriend]

inna lillahi wa inna ilaihi'raji'oon

5 brave souls has put in to rest while Ehsaan faramosh nation watch. They forgot the hell living condition under sworn enemy of Islam, malaun loving mujib. They forgot that Bangladesh would be like sikkim if these mujahid did not take out the faraun. They forgot that whole nation said "Alhumdulilah" with the death of faraun.

Take my lal salam the heros of 75. You gave us freedom and saved our nation from faraun mujib. We are Muslim today because you initiated the Jihad. We promised to continue until the end. 5 of you Shaheed today but 5 thousand shall rise insh'allah. My Allah reward you to heaven.

And hey... i didnt get we are muslim's part.. it thought to be a muslim you just need to be believe in the religion and embrace it.. right???

 

[TopCat]

Try them in Pakistan. Bangladesh and Pakistan now enjoy cordial relations its best you utilize diplomatic channels.

They are already tried and convicted. They need to be extradited.

 

[Al-zakir]

They are shaeed because they have demise a great saitan faraun and save the nation from slavery. What seem right today by many was not wrong in the event of 75. Whole nation welcomed their bravery and said Alhumdulillah with jolt of relief. No one took part of thug Mujib’s janaza yet ungrateful nation forgot the deed of these brave Mujahid. No brave souls should come forward to the rescue of this ungrateful nation and slavery is the only thing this nation deserves.

 

[Stumper]

They are shaeed because they have demise a great saitan faraun and save the nation from slavery. What seem right today by many was not wrong in the event of 75. Whole nation welcomed their bravery and said Alhumdulillah with jolt of relief. No one took part of thug Mujib’s janaza yet ungrateful nation forgot the deed of these brave Mujahid. No brave souls should come forward to the rescue of this ungrateful nation and slavery is the only thing this nation deserves.

Zakir : if you wish to have the majority agree with you, it can only be achieved if you make them see what you see.

Just because someone (in this case your citizens) does not agree with you does not make them wrong or you right. To you they were hero's. To your citizen's they were killers of Father of your nation, children's and women's.

Either them prove them wrong or accept what they say.

 

[Hyde]

Leave Jinnah out of the list you have produced. He never did any thing that was illegal or against humanity.

Brahmastra is right.......Quad-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah was also a human so mistakes are possible............ but his intentions were great no doubt

 

[Al-zakir]

Zakir : if you wish to have the majority agree with you, it can only be achieved if you make them see what you see.

Just because someone (in this case your citizens) does not agree with you does not make them wrong or you right. To you they were hero's. To your citizen's they were killers of Father of your nation, children's and women's.

Either them prove them wrong or accept what they say.

When will you bharatis stop refer Mujib as father of nation? We do not have father of nation.

How do you measure majority and do not give this crap about Awamis forge victory of last election. Do you see countrywide celebration by mess people after this execution beside AL activist lurking around malaun mujib grave? Do you see major political parties other than AL and leftist making any positive comments on this? Sifar, Nada, zip, zero……get it. No majority what’s so ever..

The majority support was there when these brave soldiers executed faraun mujib with his thug sons and whole nation celebrated with sweet and sense of relief. You bharatis were not there thus do not come up with this BS father of nation garbage. His execution was the best thing for the Muslim of Bangladesh. An anti Islamic bigot like mujib cannot be father of Mumins. Not to worry. AL layers will get their due in time.

 

[EyelessInGaza]

They are shaeed because they have demise a great saitan faraun and save the nation from slavery. What seem right today by many was not wrong in the event of 75. Whole nation welcomed their bravery and said Alhumdulillah with jolt of relief. No one took part of thug Mujib’s janaza yet ungrateful nation forgot the deed of these brave Mujahid. No brave souls should come forward to the rescue of this ungrateful nation and slavery is the only thing this nation deserves.

I'm curious Al-zakir. For someone who has such viscerally strong opinions on this and considers BD an 'ungrateful nation' and 'unworthy', what did you personally do to try and rescue these 'brave mujahid'?

 

[TopCat]

Zakir : if you wish to have the majority agree with you, it can only be achieved if you make them see what you see.

Just because someone (in this case your citizens) does not agree with you does not make them wrong or you right. To you they were hero's. To your citizen's they were killers of Father of your nation, children's and women's.

Either them prove them wrong or accept what they say.

Stumper, It is too early to judge our leaders like, Mujib, Gandhi, Neheru, Netaji or Jinnah. We need to wait another 100 years for doing so. Lincoln was the all time unpopular president of USA and 5 of his brother in laws died fighting against him in American civil war. There were no few people who would had skinned him alive and eventually he had to give his life for the cause he faught for for his entire life. But after 200 years of his death he lived and others just erased from the history. Al-Zakir is no different and decades from now people will not even remember that there were sillies ever existed.

Cheers...