Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the father of current Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, was killed in a coup by the army captain along with the majority of his family members on 15th August 1975.
Dhaka| Bangladesh has executed a former army captain, who was on a run, one week after he was arrested for the assassination of the country’s founding leader, a minister informed on Sunday.
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the father of current Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, was killed in a coup along with the majority of his family members on 15th August 1975, nearly 4 years after he led the independence fight of Bangladesh from Pakistan.
Abdul Majed was sentenced to death in 1998 along with over 10 other officials for the murders.
Bangladesh’s Supreme Court had upheld the 1998 verdict in 2009 again and 5 of the murderers were executed several months later.
Bangladesh prison authorities executed Abdul Majed, after the country’s president rejected his mercy plea.
Majed was arrested riding an auto-rickshaw in the capital early morning.
“He was hanged to death at 12.01 am Sunday (1801GMT),” law minister Anisul Huq informed news agency AFP. He also said that the execution was carried out in the country’s largest prison, just outside the capital Dhaka.
Majed was believed to had fled to India in 1996. He returned to Bangladesh last month.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, was with her sister in Europe when the assassination was carried out in 1975.
The country’s home minister this week, in a video message, called Majed’s arrest “the best gift of Mujib centenary year”.
Many post-coup governments rewarded several killers and many were offered diplomatic positions, while others were allowed to form political parties and contest polls in 1980.
Sheikh Hasina has also accused Ziaur Rahman, president from 1977 until his assassination in 1981, of planning and plotting her father’s assassination.
The road to justice for the assassinations in 1975 was long but Bangladesh continues to have political killings to this date.
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