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Bangladesh has executed a former Army officer for his involvement in the assassination of the country’s founder, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1975. Bangladesh Capt (dismissed) Abdul Majed was convicted for his involvement in the 1975 coup in which Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was assassinated.
Abdul Majed was hanged at Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj at 12:01 am, nearly four-and-a-half decades after the massacre. “Majed was hanged at 12:01 am,” Jailer Mahbubul Islam told the media.
Inspector General (Prisons) Brigadier General AKM Mustafa Kamal Pasha and civil surgeon and district magistrate of Dhaka were present during Abdul Majed’s execution. Jail sources said Abdul Majed’s mortal remains would be sent to his village in Bhola for burial.
His family members, including his wife Saleha, had met Abdul Majed in the jail on Saturday night.
On Wednesday, President Abdul Hamid turned down the mercy petition of Abdul Majed, clearing the way for his execution.
Dhaka’s District and Session’s Court had issued the death warrant for Abdul Majed after he was produced before the court on the same day.
A specialised police unit arrested Abdul Majed, one of the fugitive convicted in Bangabandhu’s assassins, as he returned home after hiding for nearly two and half decades in India.
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said previous reports indicated Majed was hiding in India but eventually he was arrested from Dhaka as he secretly returned last month. Police’s Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit arrested him in a predawn raid at Mirpur area.
On August 15, 1975, Bangabandhu and most of his family members were assassinated by a cabal of military men.
Eighteen members of his family, including Bangamata Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib, three sons — Captain Sheikh Kamal, Lieutenant Sheikh Jamal, and 10-year-old Sheikh Russel — two daughters-in-law — Sultana Kamal and Rosy Jamal — brother Sheikh Naser, peasant leader Abdur Rab Serniabat, youth leader Sheikh Fazlul Haq Moni and his wife Arzu Moni, Baby Serniabat, Sukanta Babu, Arif and Abdul Nayeem Khan Rintu, were among others who were killed on that fateful night.
Military Secretary Brigadier General Jamil was also killed. Several members of a family in the capital’s Mohammadpur area were killed by artillery shells fired by the killers on the same day.
On November 19, 2009, the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court upheld the death penalty of 12 convicted former Army officials for the assassination of Bangabandhu and his family members.
Five convicts in Bangabandhu’s assassination – Syed Farooq Rahman, Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan, Bazlul Huda, AKM Mohiuddin Ahmed and Mohiuddin Ahmed – were hanged in January 2010. Another convict Aziz Pasha died in Zimbabwe in 2001.
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said the “self-confessed killer” was not only involved in Bangabandhu’s assassination but also took part in the subsequent killing of four national leaders in high-security Dhaka Central Jail on November 3, 1975.
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