Mujib killers could not be brought back for non-cooperation of countries concerned: PM

The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on Wednesday alleged that the government could not bring back some condemned convicts of killing of country’s founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman because of non-cooperation of the countries where they were living.
‘We are not getting cooperation of the governments of those countries,’ the prime minister told parliament responding to a supplementary question from Abdus Shahid.
During the prime minister’s question-answer session, she alleged that two condemned convicts were now living in the United States, one in Canada, two in Pakistan and the whereabouts of two others were still unknown. She also said that Pakistan government did not admit that the two condemned convicts were in their country.
‘Of the countries, two of them are giving shelter to the killers although they are developed and civilised countries,’ she said.
She said that the government appointed lawyers in the United States and tried in different ways in Canada to bring the killers back.
Hasina said that law, home Ministry and foreign ministries were jointly trying to bring them back and hoped that those countries would allow the government to bring them back.
‘The government is making all-out efforts for complete execution of the verdict in Bangabandhu Murder Case by bringing back the six fugitive condemned convicts fugitives,’ she added.
The prime minister said that the episode of August 15, 1975 plunged the country into politics of killings, coups and conspiracies.
Hasina said that Ziaur Rahman barred her from entering her father’s house at Dhanmondi 32 and offer prayer after her return in 1981.
‘All of a sudden, the house was handed over to me on June 12, 1981 at an hour’s notice after the killing of Ziaur Rahman,’ she said.
She said that till now she was not clear about what actually made them to hurry to return the house to her as some officials on that day put pressure on her to sign various documents to receive the house.

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