Dhaka, Nov 3 —Local government minister Syed Ashraful Islam says he is happy about the death of the former Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi.
"I'm so happy that Gaddafi is no more. Those who sheltered the killers of Bangabandhu, my father (Syed Nazrul Islam), Nasim bhai's (Mohammad Nasim) father (M Mansur Ali) cannot be our friends," he said on Thursday at a discussion marking the Jail Killing Day in the city.
On this day in 1975, four leaders of the wartime national government—acting president Syed Nazrul Islam, prime minister Tajuddin Ahmed and cabinet ministers M Mansur Ali and AHM Qamruzzaman—were brutally killed inside Dhaka Central Jail.
The four, who were close acquaintances and political associates of independence architect Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, were immediately arrested after his assassination, along with most of his family members, on Aug 15, 1975.
The assassins, believed to be the mastermind of the 1975 coup, stormed the jail and shot dead the four leaders, only three months later.
Libyan dictator Gaddafi had offered shelter to the assassins in Libya, the country he took over 42 years ago through a military coup in 1969.
Gaddafi's 42 years of eccentric, often bloody, one-man rule over the oil-producing North African state ended on Oct 20 when the rebel forces gunned him down in his late 60s at his hometown Sirte.
The Iron man of Libya, wanted by the International Criminal Court on charges of ordering the killing of civilians, was toppled by rebel forces and he fled from the capital Tripoli on Aug 23.
The ruling Awami League's general secretary Ashraful on Thursday has expressed bewilderment over no national dailies publishing any reports on the mass killing in Libya by Gaddafi and his sheltering the killers of Bangabandhu.
Ashraful, son of the Bangladesh's first acting president, said, "Ziaur Rahman ordered Shamsher Mabin Chowdhury to take the killers to Libya. Gaddafi gave them a palace to live in on the shores of the Mediterranean."
"The same Gaddafi also helped Pakistan during the Liberation War of 1971," he added.
FROM:bdnews24.com
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