Bangladesh has urged Canada to send back Bangabandhu's killer Noor Chowdhury to execute the court verdict at home, reports UNB.
Foreign minister AK Abdul Momen raised the issue during a conversation over phone with his Canadian counterpart François-Philippe Champagne on Wednesday evening.
Momen said it will be a big achievement for the people of Bangladesh if the killer of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is brought back to Bangladesh and the verdict is executed in the year of Bangabandhu's birth centenary.
Minister Champagne reiterated Canada’s support to Bangladesh in tackling the health and economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Canada and Bangladesh enjoy a long-standing relationship, strengthened by development cooperation, growing trade, people-to-people links and Canada’s commitment to support the Rohingya crisis.
The Canadian minister proposed to form an alliance to face the post-COVID-19 challenges.
He acknowledged that the repatriation of Rohingyas to their place of origin is a 'collective responsibility' and assured Bangladesh of Canada's continued support, according to the foreign affairs ministry.
The Canadian foreign minister said they kept their discussion on Rohingya issue open with various countries.
He appreciated Bangladesh's humanitarian gesture and generosity in providing resort to Rohingyas.
The Canadian foreign minister thanked Momen for extending cooperation and help Canadian citizens return home from Bangladesh through chartered flights.
On 19 November 2009, the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court upheld the death penalty of 12 convicted former army officials for the assassination
On 15 August 1975, Bangladesh’s founding father Bangabandhu and most of his family members were assassinated by a cabal of military men. Eighteen members of his family were killed on that fateful night.
On 19 November 2009, the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court upheld the death penalty of 12 convicted former army officials for the assassination.
Five of them – Syed Farooq Rahman, Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan, Bazlul Huda, AKM Mohiuddin Ahmed and Mohiuddin Ahmed – were hanged in January 2010. Another convicted killer Abdul Majed was hanged on 12 April.
Another killer Aziz Pasha met natural death in Zimbabwe in 2001.
The fugitive killers are Khandaker Abdur Rashid, Noor Chowdhury, Shariful Haque Dalim, Rashed Chowdhury, and Risaldar Moslehuddin.
According to the government, Noor Chowdhury has been living in Canada while Rashed Chowdhury is in the USA.