Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen today (August 1) said it is shameful for the United States and Canada to give Bangabandhu's convicted killers shelter in their countries being major vocals of human rights across the globe.
He said: "The self-declared killers have been living in the same countries (US and Canada) that lecture about humanism, speak out about human rights, but give refuge to these self-confessed murderers. They should be ashamed."
The foreign minister was speaking at a tree-planting event at the Foreign Service Academy in the capital on the first day of August, the month of mourning to commemorate assassination of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his family members.
The government so far traced out Bangabandhu's two convicted fugitive killers - Rashed Chowdhury and Noor Chowdhury - residing in the USA and Canada respectively, while the whereabouts of other three fugitives -Khandaker Abdur Rashid, Shariful Haque Dalim and Moslehuddin Khan - are yet to be ascertained.
"The killers of Bangabandhu are still on the run. We know about two cases -- one in the United States and another in Canada. The whereabouts of three other fugitive convicts are still unknown," Momen said.
After tracing the locations of the two killers, the Foreign Ministry and the Law Ministry have been deeply engaged with the US and the Canadian authorities to bring back these two absconding murderers.
Earlier, Momen said the Foreign Ministry had sent letters to all missions abroad as part of the campaign to hunt down the fugitive killers.
The foreign minister had also urged expatriate Bangladeshis to keep a vigil on suspected locations of the killers alongside the Bangladesh missions in their respective host countries.
About Noor Chowdhury and Rashed Chowdhury, Dr Momen had suggested Bangladeshis living in the USA and Canada to mount community pressures on the authorities there for their return, lunching a signature campaign, supplementing the government efforts for their extradition.
BDST: 1803 HRS, AUG 01, 2023
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