With due respect we are paying glowing tributes to out four national leaders on the occasion of the Jail Killing Day and recalling their immense contributions to the War of Liberation and the nation as well. On this day (November 3) in 1975, the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s close aides four national leaders - Syed Nazrul Islam, Tajuddin Ahmed, Captain M Mansur Ali and AHM Qamaruzzaman -- were brutally killed by anti-liberation forces inside high security Dhaka Central Jail on November.
It is the second ugliest and disgraceful incident in the history of country after the brutal assassination of Bangabandhu and most of his family members on August 15 in 1975. Such killings in the safe custody of jail are unprecedented in the world’s history.
The then President Khandaker Mushtaque Ahmed and other two killers of Bangabandhu -- Colonel (retd) Syed Faruque Rahman and Lieutenant Colonel (retd) Khandaker Abdur Rashid-- had designed the heinous killing spree of the four national leaders inside the jail. The aim of the perpetrators was to give rise to undemocratic autocracy in the country as well as to erase the spirit of Liberation War from the minds of young generation.
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The killing mission had also been plotted to make bankrupt the Awami League and Bangladesh in leadership and stop democratic process and establishing autocracy and militancy. A five-member killing squad was also formed led by Resalder Musleh Uddin who was very much close to Colonel (retd) Faruque Rahman.
When Bangabandhu was imprisoned in Pakistan jail during the Liberation War the four leaders played a key role in forming the Mujibnagar government in exile, that led the Liberation War in 1971, with Syed Nazrul Islam as the acting president, Tajuddin Ahmad as the prime minister, Mansur Ali as the finance minister and AHM Qamruzzaman as the home, relief and rehabilitation minister.
They had devised war strategy and tactics, carried out administrative activities, conducted the Liberation War, carried on diplomatic efforts and kept an eye on refugees to turn the Liberation War into a people’s war in 1971.
The ruling Awami League government has freed the nation from stigma by executing the verdict of the killings of the Father of the Nation with his most of the family members. So, we also believe that the government will do everything it can to implement the verdict of the jail killing case.
Two of the most heinous killings took place in Bangladesh – one was on 15 August and the other on 3 November in 1975. The trial of the killings of the four national leaders has also been completed.
Therefore, the government will take effective steps to implement the trial immediately as 47 years have already elapsed. Besides, efforts should be on to track the locations of the fugitive killers and bring them back.
