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Download PDF If AKM Mohiuddin Ahmed, who is condemned to death for the killings of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most of his family, seeks asylum in any country, the Bangladesh Government will request that country not to give him shelter.
Moreover, the government will take state level initiatives to bring him back to the country using benefits of cooperation among countries as part of their mutual anti-terrorism measures, as he is a convicted fugitive.
“He will have to come back to the country if he doesn’t get asylum in any other country after being deported from the US. It is almost certain that the US will not allow him to stay there,” Law Adviser Mainul Hosein told The Daily Star last evening.
Asked whether the government will try to dissuade a country if Mohiuddin seeks asylum there, Mainul said, “We will request that country not to give him asylum.”
When BBC Bangla Service asked Mainul what state level initiatives will be taken when there is no extradition treaty between Bangladesh and the US, he said bringing Mohiuddin back will not be a problem.
“Now countries are cooperating with each other formally and informally as part of their anti-terrorism measures. So bringing him back will not be a problem, if nothing else arises,” Mainul said.
Also sentenced to life in prison for aiding and abetting the killings of four other national leaders on November 3, 1975, Major (retd) Mohiuddin Ahmed was arrested by officials of the Bureau of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement from his Los Angeles residence on Tuesday.
Brian De More, deputy field director of the US immigration enforcement agency said on Thursday that the authorities there will begin proceedings to return Mohiuddin to Bangladesh.
Mohiuddin left the country soon after Awami League (AL) had come to power in 1996. He was tried in absentia and two years later, along with some other ex-army personnel, was convicted of assassinating the country’s founding father.
Led by Sheikh Hasina, one of Bangabandhu’s two surviving daughters, the erstwhile AL government took measures for extraditing the killers, but could not finish the job during its tenure. The process of bringing them back stalled after BNP-led four-party alliance had formed a new government in 2001.
Meanwhile, assistant inspector general (AIG) of police of the Bangladesh chapter of Interpol said the government has yet to issue instructions regarding Mohiuddin’s extradition.
“We have not been officially informed of the arrest but we have learnt about it from the media,” AIG of Interpol Motiur Rahman Sheikh told The Daily Star.
He said the government had earlier placed a demand to the international police organisation, for sending Mohiuddin back to Bangladesh.
Police sources said Mohiuddin was declared an absconder when the trial of Bangabandhu killing case started in 1996. An arrest warrant was also issued through Interpol at the time.
The sources also said Interpol may send him back to Bangladesh under that arrest warrant.
Mohiuddin may be executed immediately after his return to the country since he did not appeal his death sentence within the stipulated timeframe, according to legal experts.
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