Leaders of the Sector Commanders Forum (SCF) yesterday urged the government to form a judicial probe commission to unmask the mastermind behind the killing of Bangabandhu as a group of derailed army officers killed Father of the Nation and most of his family on August 15 in 1975, reports BSS.
The execution of most of the convicted killers of Bangabandhu has already been completed...but the local and foreign mastermind behind the heinous killing is yet to be unearthed, said the SCF leaders in a discussion meeting on "Bangabandhu, Muktijuddha and Bangladesh" marking the 41st martyrdom anniversary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Jatiya Press Club in the capital.
Sector Commanders Forum-Liberation War'71 organised the function with its Chairman and former Army Chief Major General (retd) KM Shafiullah in the chair.
"We have completed the trial of Bangabandhu murder case ... but the real conspirators have remained untouched," said Food Minister and member of Bangabandhu Murder Case Prosecution Team Advocate Quamrul Islam.
Noted journalist and Secretary General of the Sector Commanders Forum Harun Habib moderated the function.
Criticising the role of former President and freedom fighter Ziaur Rahman, the food minister said, "Zia could never be a freedom fighter . . . How can a freedom fighter patronise directly the killers of Bangabandhu by posting them in Bangladesh missions abroad."
Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haq told the discussion meeting that the killing of Bangabandhu is not only an act of some particular killers, it was a deep-rooted conspiracy involving conspirators from home and abroad and they should be brought to book.
Calling on the governments of the countries concerned to hand over six fugitive killers of Bangabandhu to the Bangladesh government, Haq said the place and location of the fugitive killers have already been detected, but governments of different countries are pursuing the Bangladesh government to exempt the death sentence of the convicted killers on their behalf.
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