After 34 years, 5 of the killers of Bongobondhu Sheikh Mujibor Rahman got their due. After a two-decade long legal process winding through the courts, delayed by direct and indirect obstruction of justice by Moudud Ahmed and his BNP colleagues, Bozlul Huda, Mohiuddin Ahmed, A. K. M. Mohiuddin, Syed Faruq Rahman and Sultan Sharhriar Rashid Khan will meet their maker.
I have nothing significant to add to this long and well-known history, so I will look forward.
Madam Prime Minister, we know how easy it would have been for the five convicted killers to get caught in a "riot" and be accidentally killed. As cross-fires are happening every day outside the jail, one could have happened inside, too. Thank you for letting the law take its own course instead of staging a Siraj Shikdar escape attempt.
Perhaps the face of your little brother will not haunt your sleep any more. You have aided justice to prevail. Now let the healing begin. Work to make this the shonar bangla your father promised, that the country expected from him. Complete his unfinished work.
PS: I will end with a WTF! to our lawmakers and prison officials. Why are convicted prisoners being used as executioners? Since Bangladesh has a death penalty, why isn't this a government job? Two convicted murderers were allowed to kill again in the name of the law. They probably even enjoyed it. Naturally, they will also be compensated and rewarded for service--better meals, perhaps some cigarette and money. Someone convicted with a 6--year sentence does not deserve this.
Its time to end this archaic practice. There are no shortage of state-sanctioned murderers in the name of cross-fire in the RAB and Police. Ask for volunteers from them, or appoint someone for the job, or ask for volunteers from the victims family.
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“Think not of those, who are slain in the way of Allah, as dead. Nay, they are living. With their Lord they have provision. They rejoice in the bounty provided by Allah: And with regard to those left behind, who have not yet joined them (in their bliss), the (Martyrs) glory in the fact that on them is no fear, nor have they (cause to) grieve. They glory in the Grace and the bounty from Allah, and in the fact that Allah suffereth not the reward of the Faithful to be lost (in the least). Of those who answered the call of Allah and the Messenger, even after being wounded, those who do right and refrain from wrong have a great reward;” - Ale Imran 3:169-172
Healing does not start until the rest are hanged!
In all fairness, did BNP really obstruct the trials? The BNP government in 2001 inherited the same Supreme Court that AL left them, it's not as if they replaced any of the justices wholesale. There were not enough justices in the Appellate Division to form a full bench. It's a dry, technical detail, but it also happens to be the truth.
Of course, we all have a right to our opinions and criticisms. But if BNP wanted to obstruct the trials, it could have:
i) Released these individuals on bail.
ii) Somehow gotten the trial to proceed, and then use the prerogative of absolute presidential pardon to set free any of the individuals found guilty.
In 1975, there was no way out without killing Shiekh Mujibor. He wasn’t killed by Pakistanis, or wartime collaborators, but by freedom fighters, and with obvious support of India.
For us, the common people, both were blessings, the killing of Mujibor, & then the killers getting hanged!
It was fun watching the fiasco!!
Who cares for a tyrant like Mujibor, or his killers?
Right now, my home doesn’t have electricity, & hence no running water supply, and this makes the toilet also unusable!!! Good thing is that there's no gas either, so no cooking (means that the excrete will be low, good for toilet).
I honestly wouldn’t mind, & wont waste even a minute if Hasina gets killed now, or her entire cabinet gets massacred!
Amen!
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