BD missions abroad activated to confirm 1975 killer suspects’ locations

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Bangladesh has activated its missions abroad to confirm fugitive August 15 carnage assassins’ locations in countries where are presumed to have hidden, in line with primary intelligence reports, foreign minister Dr AK Abdul Momen said today.

“Particular Bangladesh missions abroad, where they (fugitives) are assumed to be hiding, have been asked to keep close contacts with security and intelligence agencies of the host countries to track them down on the basis of our lead information,” he told BSS.

He added that letters were sent previously to all missions abroad as part of the campaign to hunt down the five fugitive killers.

A total of 12 sacked military officers were sentenced to death after a protracted trial process while six were executed by now while one died a natural death abroad.

Three of the six executed assassins were brought back from three countries – Thailand, the United States and India — after their trial in absentia.

Bangladesh so far confirmed the current location of two condemned killers — sacked lieutenant colonel SHMB Noor Chowdhury and sacked lieutenant colonel Rashed Chowdhury — in Canada and the United States.

Momen said his office jointly with the law ministry launched a vigorous attempt to bring them back through engagements with the US and Canadian authorities.

He urged Bangladeshis living in these two countries to mount community pressures on the authorities there for their return, lunching a signature campaign, supplementing the government efforts for their extradition.

Momen also urged expatriate Bangladeshis in other countries to keep a vigil on suspected locations of the killers alongside the Bangladesh missions there.

“I call upon our expatriate brothers as well as countrymen to give us information about them (fugitive killers) so that we can wipe off our stigma,” he said.