Why Bangladesh is calling Canada a hub for all murderers
AK Abdul Momen has said Canada must not be a «hub of all the murderers». «Murderers can go to Canada and take shelter, and they can have a wonderful life while those he killed, their relatives are suffering,» Momen said in a TV interview recently.
When asked about Bangladesh's founding father Sheikh Mujibur Rehman's killer who continues to live in Canada, Momen said, «He’s having a good life in Canada.
He has been there. We have been requesting the Canadian government to send back the self-confessed killer of Bangabandhu, the father of our nation.
Unfortunately, Canada is not listening to us and they have come up with a variety of excuses. So, we also went to the Canadian court to understand what is the status, since he has been staying in Canada for a long time.» Momen said.
Who are the Bangladeshi assassins Canada is sheltering?
In 1975, a coterie of middle-level Army officers planned a coup to topple Sheikh Mujib's elected government and replace it with a military government.
They chose August 15, India's independence day, to carry out the coup.
Rahman, who was then the President of Bangladesh, was assassinated along with most of his family members on August 15, 1975, by a group of Army officers in a coup. President Rahman, his wife Begum Mujib, sons Sheikh Kamal, Sheikh Jamal and Sheikh Russell, daughters-in-law, and brother Sheikh Naser were all killed by those army officers.
A daughter of Rahman, Sheikh Hasina, who along with his sister was away when Rahman and his family members were killed, is currently the prime minister of Bangladesh.
Bangladesh is trying to bring back two of the fugitive army officers who were involved in shooting dead the country's founding father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and members of his
