Trump may deport Mujib murder convict Rashed Chowdhury: Caller

US president Donald Trump appears likely to deport a Bangladeshi military officer who was part of a notorious assassination team that murdered the country’s revered founder and nearly his entire family in 1975.

The Daily Caller News Foundation reported this quoting the Bangladesh officials

It said AM Rashed Chowdhury was part of an assassination team that carried out a brutal, early dawn raid on 15 August 1975, on Bangladesh president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s residence in Dhaka.

He was one of those who were tried in absentia and awarded with death penalty. Six of them were executed, but the others, including Rashed Chowdhury, remained fugitives overseas.

Chowdhury has been living in the United States since 1996 and applied for asylum. The Daily Caller said international law enforcement informed the US government it was housing a political assassin in 2009.

“Unfortunately, one of the convicted murderers, Rashed Chowdhury, remains at large in the US” ambassador Mohammad Ziauddin wrote in US News & World Report in 2014. “That injustice must end. It is time for Rashed Chowdhury to come home.”

Daily Caller said Chowdhury has lived in Chicago, Seattle, Atlanta and in various California cities, according to knowledgeable Bangladeshi sources who would talk only under the terms of anonymity for fear the former major would violently retaliate against them.

Bangladesh foreign minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali and Ziauddin jointly confirmed to The Daily Caller that they have received encouraging signs the Trump administration will extradite Chowdhury to Bangladesh.

Meetings were also held with the departments of state and justice in July and August, the media outlet reported quoting the two.

“With the coming of the Trump administration, our hope is at its peak,” Ziauddin was quoted to have said. “[Trump] has been very clear about this issue.”

He said the Obama administration did nothing, despite repeated Bangladesh appeals for Chowdhury’s extradition.

Ziauddin said Trump would be praised in Bangladesh if he sent the fugitive back to the South Asian country to face justice.